Children’s catechumenate resources
I am struggling with finding a new source for children’s catechumenate. Can you help?
I understand your frustration. There is not much available. Here is what I’ve used in various situations over the years. As you well know, you have to pick and choose what fits your children and their families. So, it’s not too “user friendly.” A few ideas:
Journey of Faith is a set of pamphlets for the various periods from Ligouri Press. The caution is you can’t just use them week to week and then when you get through a series, you’re done — onto the next period. For example, you have to choose a “catechumenate pamphlet” that fits with the Liturgy of the Word for that day.
God is Calling is a box set of materials from St. Anthony Messenger Press. It’s intergenerational and great for family sessions. Has some “minimal adaptation” for children’s catechumenate.
Living the Good News is a lectionary-based catechesis resources, but it is only published three seasons of the church year.
Perhaps some other folks will chime in with ideas.
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I really like the Pflaum materials for the 2nd and 3rd graders (Good News) for the dismissal rites for that age group. The only problem is that they are only for the school year. There is also one for 4th,5th, and 6th graders. I have not used that one because most of the students who are in our RCIA for youth are Hispanic and many of them have language difficulties, so I create my own sessions for them.
You raise an excellent point! Cultural adaptation for Hispanic children is extremely important and a big challenge for many folks. I don’t have much experience in this arena, but I would love to hear more about how you create your sessions and what adaptations you make.
Another idea that I will offer is to look at the family sessions from the various publsihers. Particularly, the family sessions that are offered in the sacramental preparation guide books. I often get ideas there for doing family sessions when we talk about sacraments. And, I get other more general ideas, too.
Michele Laughlin posted this information on the TeamRCIA Facebook page (http://facebook.com/teamrcia)
Here’s a link to a good list of resources–I’ve personally used “A Child’s Journey” specifically for RCIA for children. I’ve also used ‘Learning Centers for First Reconciliation, First Eucharist and the Whole Community” by Doris Murphy as well as “Learning Centers for Confirmation” by Doris Murphy
http://www.dor.org/ec/documents/RCIAChildrenResources.pdf