Peer Ministry
One thing I have learnt through my involvement with Youth 2000 is that nothing works better than young people evangelising young people. This was how my own conversion happened. My parents could have...
View ArticleTeenagers will be teenagers
Yesterday late afternoon I was on a bus from Chelsea heading back down south over the river. It was the time of day when kids were on their way home from school and I...
View ArticleChrist-centred catechesis
Christmas is the perfect time to think about how Christ our Saviour needs to be central in our lives (a lifelong work) and therefore, especially, in our catechesis. We all know that Christ-centred is...
View ArticleAnother 5 Quick Takes
-1- One of the highlights last week was our session on relationships and chastity with our Confirmation group. We were really blessed to have two wonderful youth evangelists with us who are very gifted...
View ArticleWeddings, Relationships, Love, Teenagers
The past month has been Wedding Month for me: I feel like I know the Rite of Marriage by heart. My sister and a close friend have both got married, and both were incredibly...
View ArticleA walk-through our Confirmation session…
Catechists love hearing about how other catechists or other parishes ‘do things’. In fact, although I’ve never done it, I would love, one day, just to sit in on another parish’s Confirmation programme...
View ArticleConfirmation: How we got here…
What a week! Thank you everyone for all your good wishes and encouragement. There have been so many enquiries about the programme. With this in mind, I wanted to share a bit more of the background...
View ArticleQuick Takes
~ 1 ~ Well, it’s been an intensive few weeks with Called and Gifted, and final stages of readying the Confirmation programme. I am more than excited to be going on holiday tomorrow morning! I’ll be...
View ArticleConfirmation Round-Up
It seems time for a Confirmation update… Every few days, I seem to hear from someone from around the country saying that they have started using the programme with their Confirmation group. How...
View ArticleTen Reasons to Use ‘Transformed in Christ’ for your Confirmation Programme...
(The first part of this post can be found here.) 6. The methodology of each session aims towards conversion. As I’ve written countless times on this blog (just do a search for “methodology”), method...
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