Your Leader's Guide provides you with a simple effective structure for each of the 15 lessons included. Quick Catholic Lessons: Vol. 1 also features a Student Workbook that provides the space for your teens to enter in and engage with Fr. Mike's presentations, helping to reinforce the lessons given in the videos. It includes multiple-choice questions, prayers, discussion prompts, activities, take home exercises, and more.
Quick Catholic Lessons with Fr. Mike is a feature-packed teacher’s guide designed to accompany the extremely popular Ascension Presents YouTube videos from Fr. Mike Schmitz, presented here on a convenient DVD. You’ll get lessons built around Fr. Mike’s short videos on a wide variety of topics kids care about, from core questions about Catholicism to practical and tough issues in Christian discipleship. Teachers, catechists, and youth ministers can supplement USCCB curriculum, prompt small-group discussion, and answer students’ questions easily and powerfully with this teacher’s guide and DVD.
What You Get…
Lessons built around fifteen of Fr. Mike’s videos on crucial topics
Objectives for each lesson and discussion questions with in-depth leader commentary
Opening and closing prayers with Scripture
Outlines of Fr. Mike’s thoughts to accompany each video
Activity ideas
Reproducible student pages with prayers, Fr. Mike’s key points, and journal prompts
DVD with fifteen Fr. Mike videos from Ascension Presents and a NEW leader video from Fr. Mike
Fr. Mike Schmitz serves as director of youth and young adult ministry for the Diocese of Duluth and as chaplain for the Newman Catholic Campus Ministry at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He is a presenter in Chosen, Altaration, and on Ascension Presents.
Colin MacIver teaches theology and has served as the religion department chair and campus ministry coordinator at St. Scholastica Academy in Covington, Louisiana. He and his wife, Aimee, are co-authors and presenters of Theology of the Body for Teens Middle School Edition and co-authors of the Chosen Parent’s and Sponsor’s Guides.
Fr. Mike Schmitz, a Catholic priest and evangelist well known for his social media videos and podcasts, hosted the 2021 breakout podcast The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)™, which became the #1 podcast on the Apple charts after its January 2021 launch, and is the most popular Catholic podcast of all time. The Bible in a Year was Chartable’s #1 global podcast in religion for several years, and was covered by news outlets including CBS, Fox, and The New York Times Magazine.
My parish has been successfully using this video series as an extension of our adult faith formation.Father Mike's choice of topics and his energetic and fun delivery make this a program that works across age groups and is as interesting to cradle Catholics as it is to converts and reverts. Group discussions are lively and as diverse as the people who attend. It is rare to find something that promotes fellowship while exploring and teaching our Catholic faith; this series does just that.