Synopses & Reviews
Send Out Your Spirit offers a comprehensive program for teens preparing for the sacrament of Confirmation. Unlike traditional programs that reserve substantive content for the leader's manual and provide candidates with related activities, Send Out Your Spirit contains the program's main content in the Candidate's Handbook. The handbook provides a survey of beliefs and practices in the Catholic tradition, with special focus on God's Spirit in our lives and the celebration of Confirmation. The entire program--the Candidate's Handbook and the doctrinal material in the Leader's Manual--has been found in conformity with the "Catechism of the Catholic Church by the US Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee to Oversee the Use of the Catechism. The Leader's Manual is closely connected to the material in the Candidate's Handbook. It provide several "how to use" tips for catechists and other adult leaders to break open the material lessons intended for either large or small groups. Each chapter provides an introduction that offers an overview of the important content. Several lesson ideas are listed related to each main section of the Candidate's Handbook Completing every one of the lessons while covering the material in the Candidate's Handbook is not required; rather, more than one suggestions per section is offered to allow for freedom to adapt the material as suited to the time and setting of the session. Also, Warm-Up/Breaktime ideas are suggested for each chapter. These are meant to serve as session icebreakers and short activities to use in between lessons. Assignment and lesson suggestions are also given to correspond with the Feature and Word of God material. At least two short Prayer Experienceideas are also included with each chapter. Lesson Planning Models for each chapter provide suggestions for lessons based on three different ten-month program models, offering suggestions for weekly, bimonthly, and monthly schedules. Suggested directions are also given in this Manual for assignments related to the words in the Glossary of Selected Terms, the Sample Service Projects Ideas, and the 50 Questions.
Synopsis
Send Out Your Spirit offers a comprehensive program for teens preparing for the sacrament of Confirmation. The program is unique because teens possess its main content in the Candidate's Handbook. The Handbook provides a survey of beliefs and practices in the Catholic tradition, with special focus on God's Spirit in our lives and the celebration of Confirmation. The entire program -- the Candidate's Handbook and the doctrinal material in the Leader's Manual -- has been found in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church by the US Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee to Oversee the Use of the Catechism. The Leader's Manual is closely connected to the material in the Candidate's Handbook. It provides several "how to use" tips for catechists and other adult leaders to break open the material lessons intended for either large or small groups.