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Resources for Teens
- Prayers for All Occassions
- Teen to Teen: Reflections from teens just like you.
- Musicians
- We Are Found Together
- Young People and Chastity
- Young Catholics on Social Justice
Young People and Chastity“Chastity is a very real challenge, particularly for young people in our country today. We want to assure those young people who are struggling to live a life of chastity that their bishops stand prayerfully with them and are there to support and encourage them,” says Archbishop J. Michael Miller, C.S.B., of Vancouver. “I am certain that young people striving to be faithful to the Gospel are not afraid of a challenging and authentic love. It is the only kind that ultimately gives true joy!” he added.
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Resources for Young Adults
Speakers
Calling all young adults! Let's listen to some great speakers, and grow in faith and knowledge!
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Resources for Parents
Podcasts
- Gentle Catholic Parenting Podcast (Kim Cameron- Smith) - Explores gentle parenting through the lens of our Catholic faith
- Catholic Momcast (Lisa Hendey & Danielle Bean) - Lisa Hendey and Danielle Bean bring you all things faith, family, and fun!
- Coffee and Pearls: Wisdom for Catholic Moms (Sterling Jaquith) - Join Sterling Jaquith for 15 minutes of wisdom for Catholic moms about spirituality, marriage, motherhood, health, finances, homemaking and recharging!
- Just a Catholic Dad Podcast (Sean McCarney) - A Catholic Dad working for his family and trying to bring up his daughter in the Catholic Faith
- Parenting Smarts (The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix) - Parenting Smarts! We need them, and sometimes we feel them. Our host, MaryRuth Hackett, is a mom of four with a doctorate in educational psychology, specializing in child development. Parenting Smarts blends together the science of child development and the realities of family life.
- Girlfriends: A Podcast for Catholic Women (Danielle Bean) - Danielle shares advice, encouragement, and connection for Catholic women in all walks of life.
- Momconfidence (Lisa Popcak) - Join author, speaker, and radio personality Lisa Popcak as we discover encouragement, confidence, and new skills in our journeys as moms.
- Messy Family Podcast: Catholic conversations on marriage and family - Parenting is not a clean-cut, simple process for those who like to follow the rules. Family life is messy and unpredictable, but it is the greatest adventure you will ever have. Mike and Alicia Hernon, parents of 10 children ranging from 6 to 23, invite you into some of the conversations they have had with each other about marriage, parenting, and Catholic family life.
YouTube Channels
Ascension Presents:- Jackie and Bobby Angel (Navigate through relationships, love, and family life)
- Fr. Mike Schmitz (Faith, pop culture and headline reflections, faith-based questions to guide you in understanding and teaching the Catholic faith)
Matt Fradd:
Catholic speaker, writer, podcast producer
Catholic Minute - Catholic Speaker Ken Yasinski:- Raising Virtuous Children
- Raising Children (Catholic Marriage Advice)
- Date Your Spouse
- Chaos in the Home
- Homeschooling Tips
- Natural Family Planning Catholic - Marquette Method NFP
Steubenville Conferences:- Kimberly Hahn - Catholic Speaker
Chris Stefanick:
Catholic speaker, writer- Waste Time on Your Kids
- When Your Kid Rejects their Faith
- Is Someone Driving You Crazy?
- Count Your Blessings
- Manage Your Blessings with Gratitude
Jason Evert:
Catholic Speaker on faith and chastity, writer- Talking to Children About Their Bodies
- Parents: Talk to Your Teens about Sex and Chastity
- Parents: Strategies for Keeping Your Teen Pure
- Parents: How to Protect Your Kids from Internet Porn
- Parenting for Purity
Catholic Answers:- Sarah Swafford - Catholic Speaker
Dr. Peter Kreeft:
Catholic Educator and Speaker
Michael D'Esterre:
Speaker and EducatorBooks
- A Mother’s Rule of Life (Holly Pierlot) - How to bring peace to your home. Create your own Mother's Rule of Life, a pattern for living that combines the spiritual wisdom of the monastery with the practical wisdom of motherhood. With the help of your own rule, you can get control of your own household, grow closer to God, come to love your husband more and raise up good Christian children.
- Devotions for Sacred Parenting (Gary Thomas) - Raising children is a sacred calling - and not for the faint of heart. It shapes the parent every bit as much as parents shape their children. With all new material, 52 devotions explore the spiritual dynamics of parenting. These life-related devotions are creative, fresh, and encouraging, inspiring mothers and fathers to look at parenting from a different perspective - as a holy and high calling from God, and as an opportunity to grow spiritually as you strive to raise godly children. Devotions for Sacred Parenting helps you understand how God is parenting you as you parent your children.
- Catholic Parent Know How: “Why Do We Go to Mass?” (Lorene Hanley Duquin) - You may wonder whether struggling with an active preschooler during Mass is really a good idea -- especially if you get disapproving looks from the people around you! Your elementary-age children may ask why your family goes to church when none of their friends have to go. Your middle-school child might protest that Mass is boring and ask why your family can't go to the Protestant church where kids have fun on Sunday mornings. Your teen may insist that there is no need to go to Mass because he or she can talk to God just as well at home. How you respond will have a lasting impact on the spiritual life of your family.
- Building Better Families: A Practical Guide to Raising Amazing Children (Matthew Kelly) - In Building Better Families, Kelly explores important issues by raising evocative questions: What makes a successful parent? Do you realize that your children are in the middle of a cultural war? What are the five things children really need? Are you asking your children the right questions? What are you teaching your children about work, money, food, exercise, body image, and sex? What are the priorities of your family culture? Building Better Families is filled with examples that can be applied to your daily experience of parenting and family, while at the same time illuminating the broader and deeper significance of family for society and the future of humanity.
- Parenting with the Beatitudes (Jeannie Ewing) - Parenting With the Beatitudes Eight Holy Habits for Daily Living JEANNIE AND BEN EWING Each chapter is based on one of the eight Beatitudes and offers reflections from both Ben and Jeannie Ewing (parents themselves who have experienced the joys and difficulties of raising Catholic children today) on how St. Joseph and the Blessed Mother lived out this Beatitude in their family, respectively.
- Don’t Let the Culture Raise Your Kids (Marcia Segelstein) - As a journalist, television news producer, writer, and editor, Marcia Segelstein has spent decades reporting on family-related issues. Her work has brought her face-to-face with troubling shifts in our culture away from Christian values - and the impact these trends are having on our children. As a mother, Marcia recognizes that these are more than news stories: they are a personal battle. And this is a battle every Christian parent today must be equipped to fight. In Don't Let the Culture Raise Your Kids, Marcia shows us how today's parents need to be different - and why. She coaches parents to lead their children with confidence and authority, eyes wide open to the pitfalls and dangers that surround them, whether in the media, in school, or among their peers. It's not too late to raise Christian kids. It's this simple: Don't Let the Culture Raise Your kids. Armed with the information provided in this book, you can start today.
- Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today’s Tough Moral Issues (Leila Miller and Trent Horn) - In Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today's Tough Moral Issues, Leila Miller and Trent Horn give parents (guardians and teachers, too!) crucial tools and techniques to form children with the understanding they need—appropriate to their age and maturity level—to meet the world's challenges. Their secret lies in an approach that begins not with the Bible or Church teaching but with the natural law. In kid-friendly ways, Miller and Horn help you communicate how the right way to live is rooted in the way we're made. God's design for human nature is a blueprint or owner's manual for moral living that any child can grasp through reason and apply to modern controversies over sex, marriage, life... and the quest for human fulfillment.
- Discipleship Parenting: Planting Seeds of Strong Faith (Kim Cameron-Smith) - As Catholic parents, we have one fundamental mission: to raise children who know and love God, and who are so in love with Christ that they can't help but share his message. We are called not only to be disciples ourselves but to be discipleship parents, evangelizing our children so they become disciples, too.
Vatican Resources:
Documents/Articles- Pope Francis - Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love)-Parenting
- Catechism of the Catholic Church
Hallow:
Apps
Hallow is a prayer app that offers guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God. Explore contemplative prayer & meditation sessions with techniques like:- Christian Meditation: finding peace through imaginative prayer & recollection. This can seem similar to mindfulness meditation in learning to be comfortable in silence, but the difference is the goal of our sessions is never to remain in ourselves, but always to lift our hearts & minds to God, to talk with Him, listen to Him, & recognize His presence with us
- Ignatian Examen: reflecting on your day & discovering an awareness of God, Jesus, & the Holy Spirit in the present moment* Lectio Divina: entering into a conversation with God through passages from the Bible / Scripture* Spiritual Writing: journaling with God
- Taizé & Chant: meditative chant & singing
- Rosary: meditating with Mary through the mysteries of the Rosary
Baby Sparks:
BabySparks’ expert-created, customized daily play program helps you do the right things at the right times in the right way. And the best part is that the cornerstone of each activity is playing and spending quality time with your child.