Here are five ideas for celebrating our nation during Catholic Schools Week. While the NCEA (National Catholic Education Association) website has many great ideas for the other days of the week themes, this one seemed to be mostly about writing to representatives and fundraising, which are good and important things, but are not the way …
Catholic Schools Week: Community
Ideas for the daily themes of Catholic Schools week, starting with celebrating our community.
Here is a copy of the talk I gave to kick off our back to school retreat last week. We chose the Beatitudes as our theme and the life of Pier Giorgio as our example. I used the book Pier Giorgio Frassati: A Man of the Beatitudes by his sister, Luciana for my facts. Feel free …
I love retreats. I love going on retreats, although it can be a little difficult in the rural area where I live and teach. I love helping on retreats- especially in the planning and behind the scenes work. But there is something truly special about exposing someone else to their first ever experience of a …
Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means that if you decide to click through and purchase that item using my link, I will receive a small commission at no cost to you. My Life with the Saints (10th Anniversary Edition) * by James Martin, SJ available from Amazon.com I read this …
This Sunday Pope Francis will celebrate a mass in honor of the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. This is in no way a political post, but it seems more important than ever to help students think critically about Catholic social teaching in an increasingly hostile political environment. In light of recent comments about …
It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in school for a month now, but as promised, here is the retreat plan from our back to school retreat and some thoughts on how the day went. Feel free to use/adapt this plan to fit your own program. Our theme for the day was “Love. Pray. Serve: …
