Bought two posters depicting the Holy Trinity yesterday for my First Communion class. This first one, the “Old Testament Trinity Icon,” I know well and love. I especially love the idea of the Trinity’s quiet intervention, as mysterious guests, to set in motion a history which will . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve been making great use of this striking coloring book, from the Hillside Education imprint. This isn’t so much a coloring book in the usual sense as simply a book of reproducible coloring pages, which feature intricate stained-glass-effect images of saints for every month of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of children’s Mass sets, I can’t believe I didn’t see this, either. . . . . Continue Reading »
As I’ve mentioned here before, this year it’s fallen to me to teach the First Communion class at church. Three weeks into the experiment, and already I’m realizing afresh what I knew going in: I am not a classroom teacher. I know how long it takes one kindergartener and one second . . . . Continue Reading »
So my friend Alex has instructed her children to ask their VBS teachers, “Have you ever heard of a Christian pirate?”[Rating: 47 out of . . . . Continue Reading »
I have just said yes to Father’s generous offer of an opportunity to teach the First Communion class, and I’m not a little tied up in knots. First of all, when Father asked me, I looked around to see whom else he might have been addressing: I haven’t been Catholic all that long, . . . . Continue Reading »
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