Resources

To help primary schools journey towards Christmas, Mission Together has lots of attractive Advent resources to offer a joyful and thoughtful approach to this wonderful season.

There are assemblies, craft activities, a faithful Christmas quiz and their much loved Advent calendar, and a new St Nicholas...

Mission Together has a new set of resources for Lent for Primary age children, along with materials specifically aimed at supporting remote learning.

In addition to their ever-popular Lenten calendar, there are pupil liturgies for each week of lent, along with assemblies and accompanying notes, Sunday...

The new National Youth Sunday website is up and running with a range of resources for use in parishes, schools and families, and by individuals. The CYMFed team preparing the event has chosen the theme "Significance", following on from this year's Flame event, and inspired by Christus Vivit.

In addition...

Resources are now available for this year's National Youth Sunday, on 26th November, the feast of Christ the King. This year, the theme is 'Something to say', and parish priests and chaplains in schools and universities are being encouraged to put young people at the heart of the celebration, by inviting...

In this current climate and time of crisis, there is an urgent need to empower children with confidence and hope for their futures. Lockdown has left many with questions about their faith and anxiety about the future. In response to this, the Kenelm Youth Trust is offering 'Primary Quo Vadis', a Catholic...

Women's World Day of Prayer 2017 is on Friday 3rd March. It's one of the biggest ecumenical prayer events worldwide, and each year, Christian women from a different country write a prayer service for a new theme. This year's theme , 'Am I being unfair to you' is about justice, and was inspired by the...

The very first World Day of the Poor, called for by Pope Francis, is on 33rd Sunday of the year, 19th November. Caritas Social Action Network has a range of resources available to help schools and parishes get involved.

The materials include downloadable prayer cards, films and testimonies of those living...

Now in its second year, Red Wednesday is the centre of a week of activities to show solidarity with persecuted Christians, organised by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). This year, it falls on 22nd November. Resources for 2017 are no longer available.

Red Wednesday shines a light on Christian persecution...

New resources created by young adults unpackage the Synod Final Document and Pope Francis's exhortation, and offer reflections for youth workers.

Just a week after the Pope released Christus Vivit, his exhortation putting the young at the heart of his vision for the renewal of the Church, a group of young...

Stella Maris (formerly The Apostleship of the Sea) has some great assembly and lesson plans based on the 'Apostle of the Slaves' on its website.

The resources are for Stage 2 and 3/4, and provide interesting material on his life and work, and on how the Apostleship of the Sea follows in his footsteps...

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.

YOCOMO self-assessment tool is based on the ETS competence model for youth workers to work internationally, which has been developed by SALTO Training and Cooperation Resource Centre. It allows you to perform self-assessment in 8 competence areas, on the level of behaviours, knowledge, skills and attitudes....