Resources for Parish Leaders
Plan to be Flexible
When the future is uncertain, plan to be flexible.
Online Sacramental Preparation
Marriage Certification Course
Joy-Filled Marriage offers engaging and effective online marriage preparation that is convenient for couples and flexible for parishes and dioceses.
The Online Certification includes:
- Powerful, award-winning videos based on the Theology of the Body
- Online digital Couple’s Guide that include summaries, activities and discussion questions
- Assessment quizzes for each session to check for understanding
- Course completion certificate, certifying all sessions have been watched and course materials completed
Flexible marriage prep for an uncertain future.
Baptism Certification Course
Continue Baptism preparation at your parish no matter what the future holds.
Belonging: Baptism in the Family of God, Certification Course includes:
- Engaging and effective videos with Father Mike Schmitz
- Online digital Parent’s Guide that includes summaries, activities and discussion questions
- Assessment quizzes for each session to check for understanding
- Course completion certificate, certifying all sessions have been watched and course materials completed
Belonging is the flexible option for online Baptism prep.
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Featured Video
Within this video, your host Colin MacIver provides tips and strategies to help your small groups to move from a face-to-face to an online setting.
Live Webinar Series for Parish Leaders
Confirmation Prep Training: Chosen’s Live and Online Options
September 2, 2020
7pm EDT
Working on a plan for Confirmation preparation in the midst of COVID challenges? We’d love to help! Join CHOSEN author Chris Stefianck along with Colin MacIver, CHOSEN contributor and author of the Catechist’s Field Guide to Confirmation for a webinar training on September 2nd at 7pm ET. Chris and Colin will be discussing a vision for Confirmation preparation specific to our current challenges along with the many tools that the CHOSEN program offers for parishes. In person? Online? Both? Not sure? We’ve got you covered.
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Free Lessons
“What Makes Me Happy?”
From Chosen: Your Journey Toward Confirmation
This helps to put life in perspective. With teens taken out of school and distanced from their social relationships (friends, sports, clubs), this video can help them to reconsider life, and the purpose of life.
“How Does God Help When It Hurts?”
From Chosen: Your Journey Toward Confirmation
We ask things like “why did God allow this to happen?” Father Toups walks through the devastation of New Orleans. We haven't experienced a hurricane, but this is relatable in this time of world-wide crisis. It is important to remember that God is with us in the suffering.
“Lectio Divina”
From Oremus: A Guide to Catholic Prayer
Every word in Scripture is ripe with meaning. You will learn the four steps in the ancient tradition of Lectio Divina, so that you can meditate on the Word of God unlike ever before.
“The Greatest Gift”
From Altaration: The Mystery of the Mass Revealed
Through a cinematic presentation of the Mass, teens will be invited to ponder the deep mysteries that have been present before their very eyes each week, and how everything we experience at Mass is designed to lead us to an encounter with Jesus Christ.
“Living God's Plan for a Joy-Filled Marriage”
From Joy-Filled Marriage: God's Plan for Love
A couple married more than sixty years offer advice and encouragement and witness to the joy and fun marriage has brought them, and Christopher West advises on how to keep God as the foundation of marriage in a practical way.
Videos that address the pandemic
Podcasts that address the pandemic
Articles that address the pandemic
How to Have Mass at Home with Your Family
by Dr. James Merrick
Be Not Afraid: The Coronavirus and Meeting God in Uncertainties
by Dr. Edward Sri
Life Isn't Cancelled: Staying Connected with Your Family, Parish, and School
by Colin MacIver
A Faithful Response to Canceled Masses amid COVID-19
by Taylor Tripodi
A Confirmation Teacher Shares Her Tricks for Online Confirmation Prep
by Caroline Harvey
Videos about prayer
Articles about prayer
Prayers for Times of Suffering, Trial, and Anxiety
by Fr. Robert Spitzer
St. Ignatius on Overcoming Desolation
by Dr. Andrew Swafford
What Parents (and Youth Leaders) Can Learn from a Six-Year-Old's Prayer
by Mark Hart
A Sinner's Guide to Catholic Prayer
by Merridith Frediani
Blessed Not Stressed: Dealing with Anxiety
by Allison DeBoer
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Week of 03/23
Monday - 03/23
Tuesday - 03/24
Wednesday - 03/25
9:30am EDT
LIVE Mass with Fr. Josh Johnson
Streaming on Facebook
4pm EDT
LIVE Rosary with Dr. Edward Sri
Leader subject to change
Streaming on Facebook
8pm EDT
Ascension LIVE: Dr. Edward Sri on The Passion of Christ
Dr. Sri dives into the last four days of Christ’s life before the crucifixion in a powerful 30 minute session
Length: 30min
Streaming on Facebook
Related resource: No Greater Love Book
Thursday - 03/26
9:30am EDT
LIVE Mass with Fr. Josh Johnson
Streaming on Facebook
4pm EDT
LIVE Rosary with Sarah & Andrew Swafford
Leader subject to change
Streaming on Facebook
8pm EDT
Ascension LIVE: Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio on the Life of Christ
Dr. D’Ambrosio walks through the life of Jesus Christ in an intimate portrait that helps Catholics get to know Christ so they can make him Lord of their life
Length: 30min
Streaming on Facebook
Related resource: Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life Book
Friday - 03/27
9:30am EDT
LIVE Mass with Fr. Josh Johnson
Streaming on Facebook
4pm EDT
LIVE Rosary with Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio
Leader subject to change
Streaming on Facebook
8pm EDT
Ascension LIVE: Jeff Cavins’ Walking Toward Eternity Special Edition (Part 1/8)
Jeff Cavins hosts a virtual study experience of Walking Towards Eternity, a practical, biblical study about hope amid suffering
8 Part Series
Length: 45min Sessions
Mondays & Fridays
Streaming on Facebook
Required reading: Walking Toward Eternity Special Edition Digital Workbook
