Resources

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...

I'm guessing you know that Pope Francis has declared October 2019 an Extraordinary Month of Mission (EMM). It's a special month of prayer and action, calling all members of our Catholic community to renew their missionary commitment to share God's love with everyone, everywhere.

To help all members of...

To support the mission of Catholic primary schools, Mission Together have created lots of new resources for 2019-20 to help pupils engage with the Extraordinary Month of Mission, Little Way Week, and a new assembly to mark the canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman – the first new English saint...

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...

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 released a range of resources and guides for the 'Give it up' Lent campaign, including video, assemblies, prayer and liturgy, fundraising ideas; an 'action a day' calendar, and templates for publicising school events and fundraising.in newsletters and to local media.

Download them all from the...

This year's Lent resources from Mission Together include a Stations of the Cross liturgical resource for the first time.

The collection includes assemblies and a calendar to encourage children to journey meaningfully towards Easter with a daily prayer, reflection or action.

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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...

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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!

Cracking resource from CAFOD, a sheet full of great icebreakers! Download it here!

This is all the fruit of a project headed up by Adrian Porter SJ who was head of Wimbledon College and St Aloysius College, Glasgow.

Their site (here) gives a load of interesting things that they're rolling out across Jesuit schools, and can help non Ignition schools think about how they educate as a...

An intriguing representation of Jesus's ministry, the passion & resurrection as a social media stream, from Igniter Media.

This is a playlist of 7 videos, one for each Sacrament!

Some scenes from The Passion of the Christ cut together with contemporary images/clips.