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Liturgical
Calendar - Benziger - Click on a season in the pie chart to
see related information, saints, and feast days.
Church
Seasons: Mark Your (Liturgical) Calendar - article by Sandra
DeGidio, O.S.M. - In this Youth Update, you will find an overview
of the calendar year in liturgical terms.
CyberFaith-
Liturgical Year Calendar - A beautifully done graphical presentation
of the liturgical year on the Sadlier web site.
Find
Holy Days and Learn About the Calendar -
Information
about the Julian, the Gregorian and the Revised Julian Calendars.
You can also use this page to generate a list of the holy days
in the year you specify and make and print a wall-style calendar.
The
Catholic Calendar Page - A good liturgical calendar with links
to daily Mass readings.
Roman
Catholic Saints Calendar and Index - Open on current month,
but the full year is available through this page. Click on a saint
name to access the biography of the saint in text and in audio
file. This is an excellent resource on the AmericanCatholic.org
Web Site from the Franciscans and
St. Anthony Messenger Press.
Catholic Liturgical
Calendar - With links to biographies of saints each day of
the year.
Catholic
Culture : Liturgical Year : Current Month - Calendar view
. Saints feast days with short biographies and links to related
resources online. The page also allows to move forward or backward
to view other months in the liturgical year calendar. There is
also an overview
of the liturgical year, again using a pie chart.
CatholicMom.com provides a nice colorful and illustrated
printable calendar for the current month: Printable
Family Calendar for this month
General
Roman Calendar - A listing by month. Includes celebrations
proper to dioceses of the United States of America
Easter Dating Method
by Ronald W. Mallen - This Document Explains:
- The complete procedure for calculating Easter Sunday dates
for all years 326 to 4099 A.D.
- How to work out Easter Sunday dates quickly and easily for
yourself.
- The Easter Method Calculation.
- The way in which Easter dating methods evolved, and provides
- Lists of Easter Sunday dates for the last 300 and next 300
years.
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Romcal is a software package
that generates the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church.
The program uses the revised liturgical calendar for the Western
Church as approved by Paul VI in Mysterii Paschalis dated 14 February
1969, and implemented in the United States in 1972. You can download
the program to create your own version of the calendar, but the
web site also offers online samples of the calendar for several
years including those for 2004 and 2005. These can be downloaded
from the web site and printed out.
The
Catholic Church - Liturgical Tables up to 2010 with Biblical
notations of the Sunday Gospel Readings.
Calculation
of the Ecclesiastical Calendar - An online program that calculates:
- Easter Sunday in both the Western (Catholic, Anglican, and
Protestant) Christian, and in the Eastern (Orthodox) Christian
traditions;
- The movable Feasts associated with Easter in the Western and
Eastern traditions;
- Many Feasts in the Catholic calendar, usually celebrations
of events in the lives of Jesus or Mary.
Domestic-Church.Com:
Fridge Art - Activities ideas for the various liturgical seasons.
Simply enter a year and click for the result!
Catholic Calendars by Mail:
Divine Word Missionaries
Calendar - Fill an online form to receive a calendar.
Catholic
Extension Calendars -" Funds from our calendars are used
to support missionary priests, religious and lay ministers, build
and repair chapels, educate seminarians, fund religious education
and outreach programs and other missionary work in 81 Catholic
mission dioceses across America."
Other Resources on the Liturgical Year: see our listing of links
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Eternity Music
has recently released a Catholic Children's CD with rote learning
songs on Mary, and the Traditions such as 'The Rosary Rap'
and St Michael the archangel. the music is up tempo/rock
music and can be sampled at the web-site. The full version of
some of the songs from this album and previously released albums
can be downloaded for free.
Catholic
Music Network: The Premier source for Catholic CDs & Tapes,
audio interviews of catholic contemporary musicians, distribution
and promotion of catholic artists and religious music, sale of
international Catholic music. Click on the banner below to access
their home page.
A Sunday School teacher asked her class, "Does
anyone know what we mean by sins of omission?"
A small girl replied, "Aren't those the sins we should have
committed, but didn't?
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A woman went to the Post Office to buy stamps for her Christmas
cards. "What denomination?" Asked the clerk.
"Oh, good heavens! Have we come to this?" said the woman.
"Well, give me 50 Protestant and 50 Catholic ones."
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A little boy, excited about his part in the Christmas
play at school, came home and shouted, "I got a part in the
Christmas play! I got a part in the Christmas play!"
"What part did you get?" asked his mother excitedly.
"I'm one of the three wise guys!"
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Little Johnny was spending the weekend with his
grandmother
after a particularly trying week in kindergarten. His grand-
mother decided to take him to the park on Saturday morning.
It had been snowing all night and everything was beautiful.
His grandmother remarked..."doesn't it look like an artist
painted this scenery? Did you know God painted this just for
you?"
Johnny said, "Yes, God did it and he did it left handed."
This confused his grandmother a bit, and she asked him "What
makes you say God did this with his left hand?"
"Well," said Johnny, "we learned at Sunday School
last week
that Jesus sits on God's right hand!"
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Upcoming Conferences,
Forums
and Workshops
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Storyteller and Early Childhood Consultant Rob Neves
now has a web site (no longer online) with free samples of his
some of his stories. We have features some
of Rob's stories in previous issues of the Catholic Educators
Newsletter. Rob offers a number of fascinating "Storytelling
Events" for children and adults:
Story Telling Events for Children
Story Telling Visits
These interactive and entertaining presentations allow children
to experience the story in a whole new way. Using a mixture of
mime, drama and sound effects the stories come alive in a style
that has been described as “guaranteed to make kids laugh”.
Kidspeak: Effective Communication Strategies Through
Story Telling
A series of confidence building and communication development,
group activities developed to initiate, promote and maintain a
practical communication strategy within a group of young children.
The Story Teller's Writing Style
Often children who struggle to write, lose their story in a sea
of grammar and spelling. Using a story teller's approach to content
development can be a liberating catalyst for creation.
Telling the Story and Public Speaking
This practical workshop focuses on strategies helping children
tell the story. We experiment with voice, sound, expression, body
language and the development of a story telling style. These are
then used to explore presentation skills and the use of story
in Public Speaking.
Story Telling Events for Adults
Story Telling in Early Literacy
The promotion of early literacy through story telling allows
children the freedom to develop ideas, concepts and discover the
value of their own voice. Learning how we can introduce reading
and writing as natural complements to their communication strategies
allows us to promote emergent literacy through the child centered
framework of story telling.
Telling the Story
This practical workshop focuses on strategies for telling the
story to young children. We experiment with voice, sound, expression,
body language and the development of a story telling style.
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