Resources

World Youth Sunday is coming up later this month on Sunday 26th November, Feast of Christ the King, a day on which Pope Francis invites the global Church to celebrate and pray for young people. In Lisbon this year, Pope Francis told young people that "Jesus door is always open: Come and See!" This has...

During the season of Lent, Missio UK are releasing educational videos to help Children understand the season of Lent.

At the time of writing, they have released a video explaining Shrove Tuesday, and Why Jesus went into the Desert

On Friday 19th November 2021, CYMFed hosted a day celebration with youth services across the country.

If you missed it they've uploaded the whole day onto their YouTube channel!

The Youth Ministry service with the Diocese of Westminster have written and collected resources for youth work.

There are prayers, reflections and reflection videos, games and activities and much much more. Some resources also explain how the activity can be used for Catholic Social Teaching.

Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival (DBGYFF) is the first worldwide festival from the Salesian Congregation to unite all our young people globally to come together on a common project where they can express their creative talents and be rewarded. This festival is our own festival, and is a precious...

Over the various lockdowns in the United Kingdom, our friends at The Acutis Project and NDCYS gave some classes. One of the classes was on Live streaming, another on how to edit a video and another on Graphic Design. It is a great introduction into how to do work in all three areas.

Released in time for the Feast of the Presentation, the day dedicated by St John Paul II to consecrated life, a new video sets out to explain to young people the concepts of consecration and to outline what consecrated life means.

Presented by the Parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Bulwell, Nottingham,...

The Catholic Youth Ministry Federation of England and Wales (CYMFed) has produced video resources to tell young people about the life of Carlo Acutis, the fifteen-year-old Italian, born in London in 1991, who will be beatified at Assisi this weekend.

You can view or download two video resources; an animation...

The Bible Society's new animated video takes Jairus's daughter and the boy with the five loaves and two fishes on a journey where they discover who Jesus really is.

The video is on YouTube, and you can download it free from the Bible Society website, in English or Welsh. There is also a script and all-age...

CAFOD has a range of resources for helping young people (secondary age) to engage with the issues around the global refugee crisis, including the short animation above.

There is also an activity to help young people to follow a refugee family on their journey to safety, an 'icebreaker' exploring facts...

As the Synod unfolds, a series of videos featuring young people responding to the questions the Bishops are considering can provide useful talking points for schools, youth and chaplaincy groups,

The series is sponsored by the Synod of Bishops and produced by Catholic network Aleteia, in collaboration...

The Bible Society has a range of resources to use with children around Easter. The Seriously Surprising Story is a video of the disciples' meeting with Jesus on the road to Emmaus. You can download it from the website , or play it on youTube. There is a booklet to accompany the film – minimum donation...

You've probably seen the classic video from Busted Halo – well, they've produced a new version for 2018, so take a look at this one!

It's almost October – how's your Nativity planning going?

The Bible Society's Pop-Up Nativity for 2017 offers a script, video, PowerPoint visuals and colouring sheets telling the story of The Greatest Journey – following Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem.

The no-rehearsal script includes suggestions...

CAFOD has two new films available to use with young people when they have experienced a faith-filled 'mountain top moment', typically after a retreat, a pilgrimage or an event like Flame, World Youth Day or Brightlights. The downloadable videos are supported by a pdf resource with activities to help...

Catholic Social Teaching in 3 minutes is a fast-paced animation from CAFOD introducing CST for young people. It can be used in classrooms, RE lessons, with youth groups, and particularly fits with Year 8 Unit 6 People of God: Called to Serve RE framework for 11-14s.

This is a lovely Eucharistic reflection on bread from Fr David O'Malley SDB

This is a video produced by the Vatican to go out as they publish the whole forty thousand word document. It is in English, as well as Italian and Spanish. The same text comes up in each language (English second) across beautiful video and music, it's really quite nice. Well done to the Vatican Media...

A lovely video summary of Laudato Si from James Martin, great for use with young people!

Many of us saw Cardinal Tagle on Flame 2, he puts out a Gospel reflection each week called 'The World Exposed'. They tend to be uploaded on the Saturday night and are on the Sunday readings of the following day. You can find the latest ones through this link!

An interesting little video that gives some of this context and history of Archbishop Romero, due for beatification later this year