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.

Download the materials from...

Remember trading trainers? Then the trade game? There's a new climate based simulation game for groups! Check it out and find all the resources you need on the CAFOD site here

Taken from Fr David O'Malley's Blog

This is the time of year when many chaplains are commissioned or re-commissioned for service in school communities. Commissioning can be a very helpful experience for both the chaplain and for the school community because:

• It highlights the spiritual dimension of the...

The Salesian Media Office shares a reflection, video and prayer each week to help young people reflect on the Gospel reading for the coming Sunday. It's updated each week and is a great resource for young people themselves and form time prayers!

You can find the site here: http://www.the-etestament.co.uk...

CAFOD have put together a really great confirmation resource called 'Be Revolutionary'!

You can find everything you need to know about it, and the resources themselves on CAFOD's site here

"In this Confirmation resource we hope to provide an adaptable set of activities that you can integrate into your...

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

At the start of this year I was asked to lead a workshop at the volunteers conference for retreat centres and outreach teams. Running this website I thought it'd be an interesting idea to talk a bit about how we can live our faith in the digital world. One of the areas I spoke about that was so interesting...

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!

This site has loads of game ideas, and is broken down to make it easy to find what you want! http://www.icebreakers.ws

There are loads of great Catholic Podcasts out there, below is a list of some of the best ones we've come across, and those recommended to us by others!

One of our favourites is Pray as you Go, a great way to focus yourself on the way to work, and it's something I've used with staff in schools and know...

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!

We're heading towards exams, this means many of the young people we work with will be revising, or more likely procrastinating! While it's good for them to get away from these pressures, I always found it was helpful to remind myself of some useful study skills basics so I could be useful if this is...

Lord Jesus Christ,
you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father,
and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him.
Show us your face and we will be saved.
Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus and Matthew from being enslaved by money;
the adulteress and Magdalene from seeking happiness only in created...

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