First Reconciliation And Beyond Leaders Guide

First Reconciliation and Beyond is a resource for Catholic parishes. The Leader Guide contains everything a catechist needs to lead one parents' session and four children's sessions to prepare for celebrating the sacrament of reconciliation. The emphasis is not just on "first reconciliation" but the ongoing experience of growing in relationship with Christ and the Christian community. The sessions focus on the theology, scripture, symbols, and experience of the sacramental ritual. The book includes age appropriate activities and discussions for both younger (ages 7-8) and older (ages 9-11) children.

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This interactive, full-color book contains everything that parents need to prepare their child at home for celebrating the sacrament of reconciliation. You can use this resource to complement and reinforce the learning that goes on in the four parish sessions of the Leader Guide or to stand alone as a guide for parents to prepare their child at home.

As a Pure Desire group leader, you are, first and foremost, a servant. You, too, are moving toward health and healing. However, a group leader strives to inspire encourage, affirm, believe in, and serve the members in her group. The Betrayal & Beyond Leader's Guide will help you create and develop a vision for your group, giving an opportunity for each member to buy in and take ownership of the hope and freedom available through Jesus.

Today, racial wounds from three hundred years of slavery and a history of Jim Crow laws continue to impact the church in America. Martin Luther King Jr. captured this reality when he said: “The most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday.” Equipped with the gospel, the evangelical church should be the catalyst for reconciliation, yet it continues to cultivate immense pain and division. Weep with Me by Mark Vroegop is a timely resource that presents lament as a bridge to racial reconciliation in the world today. In the Bible, lament is a prayer that leads to trust, which can be a starting point for the church to “weep with those who weep” (Rom. 12:15). As Vroegop writes: “Reconciliation in the church starts with tears and ends in trust.”