Resources

This fantastic video was written by David Wells and Animated by Tree Behrens for CYMFed Flame 2, and is a really powerful way of telling the story.

These videos were made by young people themselves! More about trips to Taize can be found here

Pope Francis joined with young people from all over the world, many with disabilities, to talk about the value they had and the good that comes from them coming together.

This is just the trailer, but you can find the whole thing here, you may just need to turn the subtitles on!

Below is the full text of Pope Francis' World Youth Day Message! While we have National Youth Sunday on the feast of Christ the King, lots of other places in the world have it on Palm Sunday. The themes for last year, this year and next years are based on the beatitudes, have a read through for yourself....

Another great video from Busted Halo!

This is a great video from CRS (US CAFOD) by the Archbishop New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan

CAFOD have some really great resources, some that focus on Lent, and others on their One Climate, One World campaign that focuses on climate change and how it has the biggest impact on poorest people in our world.

Primary schools:

One Climate, One World campaign

Climate change is the biggest threat to reducing...

Dear Young Friends,

When I speak spontaneously I do it in Spanish, because I don't know the English language. May I do it? Thank you very much. This Fr Mark, a good translator.

First of all, a sad piece of news. Yesterday, as Mass was about to start, a piece of scaffolding fell and, upon falling, hit a...

Nick Vujicic is a speaker who was born without limbs. He uses his disability as an opportunity to spread the message about the Gospel!

This site has some great resources on for looking at how some of the people who make our clothes are very unfairly treated.

You can find the resources section here.

Word On Fire has loads of videos, blogs and other resources. It's an American non-profit organisation that works very closely with Bishop Robert Barron, and produced his Catholicism Series. You can find the site here.

This is the kind of website I used to stumble upon, and then always regret I didn't write down the website url…! It's full of loads of images that are nice and simple and really useful for booklets. The black and white ones are best, and navigation is a bit odd on the site, but worth using! Find...

This website has all sorts of resource for music and creative worship! http://engageworship.org/

This is just fantastic!

Biblegateway is incredibly helpful, and saves a lot of time typing out from the Lectionary/Bible… https://www.biblegateway.com

Wondering what the readings for the day are? Today, or in a few days? Universalis is here to help! It's a fantastic resource, there's also an app (which can more easily adjust to local liturgical calendars)

http://www.universalis.com

The Triduum (TRIH-du-um) is the time of the Church year when we celebrate the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This three-day celebration begins with the Holy Thursday Mass and continues on Good Friday with the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion. At the end of this liturgy, we leave the church...

http://www.yesheis.com/en/

This can be a really helpful site for pulling together inspirations clips to fit a theme! The site is here.

There are some really good things on here, but unlike CAFOD's resources it's tailored to the States, and focuses almost entirely on things best suited to lessons. It's here.

There's a whole series of resource on this site about teaching peace including prayers, activities and themes for sessions/lessons. You can download the whole things as one, or look at the individual elements. Take a look at them here!

Not sure if it's a memorial, or want to plan your calendar in advance? This is your authoritative source! The site can be accessed here.

There are a ridiculous amount of games and ice-breakers on this site! Access it here!