take 2 minutes to watch this and enjoy the beauty.
This is so beautiful you’ll want to watch it more than once.
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Year of Faith
The year will involve informing oneself about the faith, celebrating it and living it. We don’t do one without the other two. It’s not enough just to study the faith and never go to Mass or never put it into action.
.APOSTOLIC LETTER POPE BENEDICT
What is the Year of Faith 2012
A Prayer for the Year of Faith
Deepening our personal prayer life:
As part of our personal journey in this special Year of Faith , teachers might consider reading the catechesis of the Holy Father regarding prayer in the life of the Christian. Pope Benedict XVI gave these teachings at his weekly audiences throughout 2011. These are gathered here in one document for your convenience :
Lent 2012. Some Resources
Here are some downloadable resources for class and personal reflection as we journey through Lent towards the great celebration of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus.
What does mortification mean to me
Unity Prayer
In January we all pray for Christian Unity. This prayer resource could be used in Parish, School Assembly or for personal prayer throughout the year
Blessing and Litany for Feast of St Brigid
This resource includes a newly composed Blessing of the rush cross associated with St Brigid and a specially composed Litany for use on her feast February 1st.
St Brigid Blessing and Litany 2012
Here are some shared resources on the life of St Brigid and also some of her prayers:
St Brigid ..her life St Brigid
Blessing of St Brigid’s Crosses
Getting in touch with your centre – A new prayer resource (ppt)
Declan has released this powerpoint for personal and group reflection. Very suitable for staff days and senior religious education units on prayer in the life of a Christian today.
Rediscovering what gives you life and meaning – Getting in touch with your centre.
Eucharistic Congress 2012.
Congress Prayer Click to upload the Official Congress Prayer.
Congress Junior Class Resource Click to upload lesson plans for Year 8 perhaps.
Religious Education in RC Post Primary School:
Post-Primary Adviser – Reflection on the role for today:
Frank
“At the heart of our faith is the invitation to respond to the call of God. In particular, as Diocesan Advisers involved in catechesis, our challenge is to enable teachers and their pupils to hear that call and respond to it. I see my role in this area as encouraging, supporting, affirming, resourcing and providing up-to-date information to our teachers in order to spread the Gospel message in the classroom. In this sense Religious Education must be more than teaching knowledge and skills of an academic discipline, it must be about a lived experience of passing on the faith; to challenge teachers and pupils to bring Christ alive in ways appropriate to their stage of faith, through encouraging compassion, tolerance, understanding and respect for each other and for all those whom they meet in their lives.”
AS and A2 Religious Studies.
Presently most RC schools choose to use the CCEA Specifications and many students study the units on The Early Church with their second area being The Celtic Church. Some schools favour St Luke instead and ethics .
GCSE RELIGIOUS STUDIES & Key Stage 4 Rel Ed for Those with Learning Needs
Most RC schools in N Ireland are currently offering AQA specifications for Religious Studies. The most common options being Unit 1 Christianity, Unit 2 Christianity Ethics. Unit 3 Roman Catholicism, Unit 4 Roman Catholicism Ethics, Unit 5 St Mark’s Gospel.
For convenience you can download these options here:
69A17265d01 Christianity scheme of work
36CEE7B5d01 Roman Catholicism Scheme of work
B75A5859d01 Roman Catholicism Ethics
5A734E14d01 RC Ethics Scheme of work
19914552d01 St Mark Scheme of work
For students with Learning Issues :
For students that would not be able to accomplish a GCSE because of learning difficulties the former Diocesan Christian Lifestyle Programme is no longer an option. Some might like to offer the Entry level Programme offered by Edexcel selecting the Roman Catholic Option and combine this with the Faith Award offered by the Archdiocese of Armagh “The Muireadhach Award “. This combination would offer these students a challenge and a very good personal experience of religious education at this stage in their schooling.
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Another possible resource that might be worth your consideration is the NOCN General Religious Education Entry Level 1 to 3 Awards (QCF)
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