This retreat guide offers some session ideas to help students reflect on their gifts, and how they can make choices as to what they do with their lives. The sessions are suitable for retreats or on formation days in schools.
For our AC+ subscribers: Please find a selection of Australian Catholics articles to support your lessons on Catholic Social Teaching and the call to family, community and participation.
In the lower grades, we look at how Jesus dealt with bullies and modelled good friendship skills. In the upper grades, we look at gender politics and two role models to young people looking for guidance.
These questions and activities examine the concept of love, particularly God’s love for us and the love He expects us to show to others.
Parental analogies are a wonderful way to build an understanding of faith concepts. These activities explore the role of our mother Mary, in the Church and how our relationship with God is like that of a loving parent.
For our AC+ subscribers: Here are some resources that might be helpful in engaging students in reflection and conversation around the Sacrament of Marriage.
These classroom questions and activities start with a general look at the sacraments for early learners and then zero in on the sacraments of service, religious vocations and marriage, as learners become more advanced.
This integrated set of activities and questions combines career learning, a Catholic perspective on vocations, literacy and numeracy skills.
While ‘vocation’ is generally understood to be a calling to the priestly or religious life, it has a much wider meaning, including the vocation of marriage.
Read Saints for all Seasons - St Valentine (from the Summer 2021-22 edition of Australian Catholics) and take part in the following questions and activities.
Good and loving relationships strengthen our communities.
A young couple overcome obstacles to build a future together – a creative imagining of the love story of Joseph and Mary.