BENDEGIDOS is the bilingual edition of the widely used and respected catechetical program, BLEST ARE WE. The pages that follow provide an introduction to the program and a helpful overview of both the child's book and the
catechist guide.
Inspired by the National Directory for Catechesis, Silver Burdett Ginn Religion developed BENDECIDOS out of deep respect for the Hispanic community in the United States. The program offers a multi-cultural resource that incorporates Catholic traditions and practices from many Hispanic-American communities.

Based on The Catechism of the Catholic Church, this program is designed to immerse students and catechists in Scripture and connect faith with everyday life. Liturgical participation is encouraged through music an prayer experiences. A related website includes a liturgical calendar with feasts and seasons.

♦ IN CONFORMITY WITH CATECHISM
♦ Parish and School editions available
♦ Spanish Child/Family editions available

In BLEST ARE WE, faith is developed through a spiral curriculum based on the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. These four pillars of Catholic doctrine are What Catholics Believe, How Catholics Worship, How Catholics Live, and How Catholics Pray. The four pillars are taught in every unit, at every level, every year

Welcome to Benziger's Catechists in Formation, a complete introductory training program for catechists. Through the use of a four-part educational process, you will come to know the information, attitudes, and skills you need to be an effective catechist.

Catechists in Formation was designed to be used effectively in many way types of religious education training programs. this introduction will describe the program's philosophy and the content of its various books. You will be given several options for using this program and suggestions for implementing it under the model you choose.

Introduced in 2003, this program features a teaching plan built around the theme "KNOW, LOVE and SERVE." Each student edition begins with A Little Catechism, and the 24 chapters follow the teaching methods of Jesus: Invitation, Discovery, and Living.

♦ IN CONFORMITY WITH CATECHISM

Introduced in 2003, this program features a teaching plan built around the theme "KNOW, LOVE and SERVE." Each student edition begins with A Little Catechism, and the 24 chapters follow the teaching methods of Jesus: Invitation, Discovery, and Living.

♦ IN CONFORMITY WITH CATECHISM

This program is designed for the school looking for a traditional classroom model of religious education. The Catechism of the Catholic Church spirals through the program highlighting the incarnation, Scripture, the Eucharist, Mary and the saints.

A program for Adolescent Catechesis has as its primary audience youth ministers, catechists, and high-school-age teens involved in parish programs of youth ministry and religious education.

Echoes of Faith is a basic-level, video-assisted resource for the formation and enrichment of catechists in parishes and Catholic schools. It was developed be the National Conference of Catechetical Leadership (NCCL) and produced by RCL - Resources for Christan Living. Respected theologians and catechetical theorists and practitioners served as advisors.

This original edition of Faith First pioneered the "spiral" approach to teaching the faith, based upon the four pillars of The Catechism of the Catholic Church - Creed, Liturgy & Sacraments, Morality and Prayer.

♦ IN CONFORMITY WITH CATECHISM
♦ Parish and School instructor editions available
♦ Family resource books available in Spanish

This original edition of Faith First pioneered the "spiral" approach to teaching the faith, based upon the four pillars of The Catechism of the Catholic Church - Creed, Liturgy & Sacraments, Morality and Prayer.

♦ IN CONFORMITY WITH CATECHISM
♦ Parish and School instructor editions available
♦ Family resource books available in Spanish

Your Faith First Catechist Guide gives you the very simple, easy-to-use lesson plans that you want. These lesson plans were written by people who actually teach in classes just like yours, so we know that the lessons work! In the Catechist Guide there are also excellent organizational pages and comprehensive background on the topics you will be teaching- hundreds of ideas to use. 5ut that's not all.
Throughout the year, Faith First will continue to partner with you and to work with you as you teach. We're here to help you directly and personally on an ongoing basis.

The Faith First Legacy Edition has a new flexible lesson plan designed around the parish's weekly time frame, allowing volunteer catechists to prepare successful lessons. The new parent pages help include the family in the learning process every week.

♦ IN CONFORMITY WITH CATECHISM
♦ Catechist editions available
♦ Four new Junior High books

Benziger Family Life (K-8) supports parents in raising responsible, morally aware children by encouraging them to develop Christian values and an appreciation for God's gift of life. It is correlated to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

This program delivers a complete moral catechesis on the Catholic Church's human sexuality teachings. Provides a vision for family life that encompasses the moral and educational needs of youth with the teaching of Christian virtue.

What you have before you is a great adventure. Each week the living God speaks to us-who could believe it?-a Word that turns the world upside down, calling us to conversion and newness of life. This manual is a companion to that process by which God reaches us and changes us through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Our Catholic Identity workbooks present the beliefs of the Catholic Church as contained in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Through both content and activities, learners read and think about the beliefs and traditions of their Catholic faith. By working through the sessions, learners frow in knowledge and develop a sense of their Catholic Identity. The content and activities are appropriate for each grade level.

Teens are particularly concerned with getting a life-a real life. They want real-life answers to real-life questions: What are the rules? What would I do to show I belong? How can I know what's right? How do I know if it's love? What does God want from me? What do I value?

Benziger has a product that leads young adolescents to discover how to live a real life within the framework of their Catholic faith. It's a program called Real Life: Living My Faith Every Day.

Real Life offers nine full-color magazines that cover relevant issues. Check out what's inside Real Life.

The authors of Light of the World series have tried to use inclusive language (referring to both men and women), since both sexes share equally in human qualities and accomplishments. It is sometimes necessary, however, to quote from other sources whose language is noninclusive (for example. using the male pronoun or such terms as mankind to refer to all people). Although it will contrast with the text proper, the noninclusive language of other authors has been changed.

Share the Joy builds on the solid foundation formed by To Teach As Jesus
Did and Sharing the Light of Faith, the National Catechetical Directory. In
addition, the doctrinal content and methodology of Share the Joy find their
roots in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the catechetical manifesto
of Pope John Paul II's Catechesi Tradendae, from which Share the Joy has
garnered the following characteristics:

Widely used and highly acclaimed, this program continues to provide an education in Catholicism to K-6 students. The series provides comprehensive coverage of Scripture, Church doctrine, sacraments, prayer and morality.

♦ IN CONFORMITY WITH CATECHISM
♦ Parish and School editions available

The journey theme is meant to focus the attention of the young people, and to illustrate in a memorable way this fact: the loving Jesus they will meet in their studies is with them in all their life experiences. The world they find so fresh, so demanding, and even sometimes so thrilling is God's world, made new and full of grace for them through Jesus and the Spirit.
♦ G7, G8 and K available

Those of you who have been using This Is OUR FAITH will be delighted to find the same completeness, ease of use, and affordability that has helped
make the program the catechists' choice for the 1990s.
We have continued to listen and respond to your needs. The wonderful new features and components you requested make
#1 program even better.
Those of you who are new to This Is Our FAITH are about to discover the program that you've been waiting for-one that combines everything catechists want with a program
children love using.

This most important journey begins with the good news. The children will meet Jesus through ten stories from the gospels. Activities and prayers for use with each story will help them to grow in awareness of Jesus' love in their own lives and to share this love with others.
♦ Program for Adolescents

Understanding the Catechism explores the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church--Creed, Liturgy and Sacraments, Morality, and Prayer.

Use the courses together or individually to provide your teens with sound Catholic teaching and help them connect faith to the ordinary events in their lives.