Like Nancy, I am using Loyola Press' God's Gift. However, the pastor and I are trying to bring about whole community catechesis slowly and he wanted to do it...
What a great idea described by Mylestogo! It makes so much sense to involve the parents in the First Communion preparation. After all, the children are being...
I was curious what you might provide your catechists with for Lent for their PSR classes. Or do you do a communal prayer services throughout the gathering...
I was curious how everyone searches out and find the students that need to be in Religious Education classes. I am also curious about how we help educate...
The parish secretary should be able to search her parish records by internet and pull out children by birth dates if you give her the years you want. You...
Something I "dreamed up" and used with our parish, but also at an Archdiocesan Eucharistic Congress was called "A Day in Old Jerusalem" -- a series of booths...
Our Archdiocese requires a permanent record (about a 5x7 card) on which basic information, years of psr attendance and catechist, and sacrament records. It is...
Keeping attendance is very important for PSR. How does everyone keep it and what are the "consequences" for not? What do you do if you see a consistent...
When you find a list of these young people how do you normally contact them and share with them the rewards of attending PSR? ... internet and pull out...
Every August I run reports from our parish data base for the different age groups. I go through the lists, and mark who goes to Catholic school and who was in...
now, if you had a parish like ours of 300 families or so, it wouldn't be much of a problem. We contact new families and families whose first child is going...
Dear Agnes and all, I have found that the more personal the contact (phone call) the better the results. Be prepared to listen! Often they have a list of...
I am currently really frustrated with the books that we use for PSR (these were the books I inherited when I started). I was curious if anyone has any...
We are a parish of 1600 families. ... wouldn't be much of a problem. We contact new families and families whose first child is going into first grade. Other...
Thanks so much. It sounds just great. ... From: EVELYN TUCKER To: dre-talk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [dre-talk]...
Hi! I would suggest that you make yourself a list of what you want the textbook to cover, methodologies you want to be used, supplementary items (workbook,...
Wednesday 11 February 2009 Greetings from Gainesville! Not exactly sure what is meant by Permanent record files, but I do keep a historical record of all...
Thursday 12 February 2009 Greetings and Salutations! The economic downturn has hit our parish very hard. We are now beyond budget cuts and into lay offs. I...
Tom, most of our programs are lectionary-based, so we do not use the usual religious education texts. I prepare the catechists and peer leaders by sending them...
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Feb 12, 2009 3:07 am
Gave up textbooks years ago. They are very boring and very poorly written for our teenage students. I completely write a year long program for my teens and...
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Feb 12, 2009 5:42 am
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... Using our parish database I am able to know what students are not attending RE. I also keep a records of every student each year. For those students that...
Tom, I, too, keep my records and having been a DRE for many years I have many records. I have been called to task for keeping them because they take up...
