Video: Catholic Social Teaching in 3 minutes
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.
King of Hearts – NYS 2015
The 2015 National Youth Sunday Resources are online, you can find them all here, order printed resources from Redemptorist publications, or download them directly from the Bishops Conference Website through the links below. Read more
Migrant Debate Resource from the Columbans
Migrant Crisis?: The Big Debate
A PowerPoint from Columban Justice and Peace Education. For use with young people to explore refugees and faith responses.
The Columbans Justice and Peace Education team have created this resource to for their work, but wanted to share it with a wider audience.
You can download it here!
CAFOD Climate Comic Campaigning!
This 60 min+ workshop for young people from CAFOD explores how comics are used for campaigning around the world and gives young people the opportunity to create their own. You can find all the resources here.
Stations of the Cross from Godzdogz
The Dominican Students of Great Britain have produced videos for the stations of the Cross for Lent that could be a really great way of doing the stations in a different way, or an engaging resource to help young people put together their own set of stations. They can all be found on their youtube page here. Search the page for Stations of the Cross
Taize – One Week in July
These videos were made by young people themselves! More about trips to Taize can be found here
Christian Images
This is the kind of website I used to stumble upon, and then always regret I didn’t write down the website url…! Read more
WordOnFire
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.
Organising Large Events: A Guide
This is something put together on the old site by the Editor Emeritus Jack Regan. You can download it here!
Approaches to Behaviour: A Guide
This is something put together on the old site by the Editor Emeritus Jack Regan. You can download it here!
Working with Attention Deficit
This is something put together on the old site by the Editor Emeritus Jack Regan. You can download it here!
Turnover Questions: A Guide to Starting Discussions
This is something put together on the old site by the Editor Emeritus Jack Regan. You can download it here!
Affirmation Sessions: A Guide
This is something put together on the old site by the Editor Emeritus Jack Regan. You can download it here!
Organising Large Masses: A Guide
This is something put together on the old site by the Editor Emeritus Jack Regan. You can download it here!
Starting a Youth Group: A Guide
This is something put together on the old site by the Editor Emeritus Jack Regan. You can download it here!
Idea: Create a Jesse Tree
Create a Jesse Tree to help young people see the broader context around the Christmas story. There are some prayers Loyola Press have here.
YCW Christmas Resources
YCW Reflection, Can We Afford Christmas? Really interesting thing to do with groups reflecting on what we spend at Christmas – from @YCWImpact
Advent and Christmas Craft activities
Activity Village has a range of craft activities for Advent, Christmas and other times of year which you can access for free is you’re looking for ideas to use with children – like this wooden spoon angel. They also offer a wide range of printable colouring sheets. puzzles, posters etc, but these are only available to paid members – in 2018, this costs £17.50 for a year.
Advent Buddies
Advent Buddies! Let Advent be a time for young people to grow in faith by linking with an adult in the Parish. This resource is from the states, so make sure you check things through with the person responsible for safeguarding.
Advent: Travelling Nativity
St William of York, Sheffield began a lovely tradition in the parish in 2005.
Starting from the church on the first Sunday of Advent, the nativity figures of Mary, Joseph and the donkey make a journey round family homes, spending each night with a different family, before returning to church on Christmas Eve – shown in the photo. A sheet with prayers for a short service arrives with Mary and Joseph at each home.
Why not get young people to help host Mary and Joseph on their journey to Bethlehem by running a travelling nativity?
Find out more from the parish website
Advent & Chocolate
Ever get the impression young people think Advent is all about Chocolate? This service/assembly/intro uses chocolate another way… Powerpoint here here. Thanks to JohnUK
Want to be happy? Be grateful
A brilliant TED talk by David Steindl-Rast, the Austrian Benedictine.