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Resources for Small Christian Communities

The Small Christian Communities Newsletter is jam-packed full of new and interesting materials for the faith-sharing groups in your parish. Small Christian communites continue to be an essential component to parish life. Participants are led not only to prayerful reflection and fruitful sharing but beyond to concrete actions that positively influence attitudes and behaviors.

Fall Quest 2009
Quest is a lectionary-based reflection booklet that covers 18 weeks of readings from the Sunday scriptures. Each weekly unit offers the elements for a complete small community session: suggestions for creating a reflective environment, opening prayer, introductory focus question designed to tap into some basic human experience addressed by the week’s scripture, commentary on one or more of the lectionary readings for the upcoming Sunday, several experience-based faith sharing questions, suggestions for individual or group response in action, and a closing prayer. Refer to the Small Christian Communities Newsletter for additional information.

Six Weeks with the Bible - Luke: The Good News of God's Mercy
Loyola Press
For busy adults who want to study the Bible but don't know where to begin, Six Weeks with the Bible provides an inviting starting point. Each guide is divided into six concise, 90-minute segments that introduce one book of the Bible. All biblical text is printed in the guides, which means no additional study aids are required. Refer to the Small Christian Communities Newsletter for additional information.

Impact Series - RENEW International
Impact is designed to connect faith to the fullest possible range of human concerns and personal issues. Participants are led by this series not only to prayerful reflection and fruitful sharing, but beyond to concrete actions that positively influences attitudes and behaviors. The Series is divided into four families of human and spiritual concerns: Spiritual Awakenings; Faith in Daily Life; Discipleship in Action and Sacramental Pathways. Refer to the Small Christian Communites Newsletter for additional information.

Small Christian Communities Newsletter
Tasks for Facilitator

Tasks for Program Coordinator

Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict’s third encyclical, is a call to see the relationship between human and environmental ecologies and to link charity and truth in the pursuit of justice, the common good, and authentic human development. In doing so, the pope points out the responsibilities and limitations of government and the private market, challenges traditional ideologies of right and left, and calls all men and women to think and act anew.

For more information, click here to go to the USCCB web page.

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