Among Us! is a Scripture-based youth ministry series which has three sets, each consisting of nine individual topics. The Identity set is intended to kick off the series and allow the youth to build a community of trust in which they can feel comfortable sharing their struggles. Scripture is used to guide the discussion.

The lifestyle set follows Identity and is intended for a group that is used to sharing. It gets to the heart of real issues that today's youth are dealing with, and offers Scripture to direct them.

The Scripture set is the last of the series and offers a more detailed understanding of the Scripture. The discussion, however, still remains focused on the youth.

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.

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♦ 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

Using the principles of liturgical catechesis, these Baptism, Eucharist and Reconciliation programs invite the whole community to engage in a child's sacramental preparation.

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♦ Spanish editions available

Designed to be a springboard to lifelong catechesis, Call to Faith presents
the elements of the Catholic faith, from both Scripture and tradition, in
age-appropriate ways. The program encourages students to share their
faith, connect their faith, and live their faith.

♦ IN CONFORMITY WITH CATECHISM
♦ Parish and School
editions available
♦ Available in Spanish

A program that provides students with catechesis that is content-centered, liturgical and connected to the lectionary. It is designed to be used in a program of whole community catechesis. The Enhanced edition (©2009) includes these new elements: a more complete overall scope and sequence, a comprehensive Catholic social teaching component and additional prayers in each chapter.

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.

Designed for children in Grades 2-4, this program emphasizes ongoing celebration. Each chapter covers an aspect of the sacrament, a Scripture story, an activity, and prayer.

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♦ Spanish editions available

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.

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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 series helps students become aware that Jesus is their Lord and Savior who leads them to the Father through his Spirit. With a focus on Scripture, the content blends core beliefs: creed, sacraments, commandments, and prayer. The program includes many traditional and familiar prayers, as well as Catholic vocabulary, all designed to instill a strong sense of Catholic identity.

The purpose of Christ our life is to proclaim the Lord so that young Christians meeting Jesus will develop a committed relationship with him and the Church. As children begin and continue their journey of faith, Christ Our Life helps catechists and parents teach the children to become more faithful, more responsive, and more involved Catholic Christians.

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.

The Coming to Faith program helps children to explore their Catholic faith, develop morally, and grow in religious understanding and practice. The texts and guides are judged to be in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church by the U.S. Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee to Oversee the Use of the Catechism

The New Edition of Coming to faith is developed according to the established criteria for Catholic catechetical materials. Sadlier's K-6 program initiates children into the heart and beauty of Catholic teaching. It promotes a continuing commitment to religious literacy and the religious imagination of children in their Catholic faith practice.

The Coming to Faith initiates the children into the heart and beauty of their Catholic faith.

Each text contains features that help turn the richness of our Catholic heritage into a lived faith. Beautiful art sparks the child's imagination. Faith words in each chapter provide the child with an extensive Catholic vocabulary.

♦ Bilingual edition

Rooted in Scripture, this K-6 program uses a solid catechetical method to help children explore their faith, grow morally, and develop religious understanding.

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♦ Parish and School editions available
♦ English/Spanish bilingual editions available

Three programs to prepare young children for Confirmation or for Confirmation and First Eucharist celebrated together.

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.

The Crossroads program is built upon three principal goals:

1. To provide a series of courses that takes into account the interests, needs, limits, and capacities of adolescents.

2. To provide a program designed specifically for the varied religious education structures, allowing for great flexibility without sacrificing scope or depth of content.

3. To provide a realistic approach that will ensure effective parental involvement in the religious education of youth.

The Developing Faith series is designed to be the catechetical centerpiece of a comprehensive and flexible faith development program to, for, and by adolescents.

In general it is a program that mirrors much of the lifestyle of its participants. It is a program that can roll with a demanding teen schedule yet still claim its rightful place of importance.

Discovering is a parish religious education program for sixth, seventh, and eight grade students. The revised program consists of fourteen six-session mini-courses on themes of high interest to young adolescents. The mini-course format of Discovering allows program coordination and teachers to combine and organize the various courses into a curriculum that meets the unique needs of the students in their parish program.

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

The Faith and Life religious education series presents Catholic teaching using time-tested methods of catechesis and faith formation, in a beautiful, student-friendly, comprehensive format.

It is excellent for grades 1-8 in Catholic schools, parish catechetical programs, and home schools.

The Faith and Life religious education series presents Catholic teaching using time-tested methods of catechesis and faith formation, in a beautiful, student-friendly, comprehensive format.

It is excellent for grades 1-8 in Catholic schools, parish catechetical programs, and home schools.

Correlated with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the revised edition features increased use of Scripture to complement the series' outstanding presentation of Catholic doctrine and practices. The completely revised and updated teacher's books use a convenient wrap-around format and a color-coded system to help make lesson planning easier and more effective. Plus, the new teacher's books include classic lessons from the first edition as well as many new lessons and lesson materials.

The Faith and Witness school program helps Catholic school children of Junior High age or early adolescence to develop a lasting relationship with Jesus Christ. They explore at a deeper level the teachings of their Catholic faith and accept the challenge of true discipleship through shared study, reflection, prayer, and action. The texts and guides are judged to be in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church by the U.S. Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee to Oversee the Use of the Catechism.

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.

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♦ 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.

Finding God: Our response to God's Gifts reflects a vision of our Catholic faith grounded in Scripture and Tradition and an Ignatian recognition of the presence of God in all things. The expression of that vision is based on our Catholic belief that effective catechesis

reflects the love of the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit
center on the person of Jesus Christ
proclaims the liberating good news of salvation through Jesus Christ
leads the Christian into the world in mission and action
addresses the needs of the culture in which it is presented
invites relievers to reflect on personal experience in light of growing in relationship with God
leads to full, conscious, active participation in the liturgical life of the Church
creates a climate of prayer and nurtures a faith that is expressed in prayer

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.

The series "God Is Calling" is primarily intended to be an inter-generational catechetical series. Its focus is centered on adults and teen faith development as well as that of children. It can be used as a family series in the broadest parochial sense of the word family. It can also be used as a resource for children and adolescents who are a part of the catechumenate process.

Catholic young people need, and have a right to know, the positive values we hold as a faith community regarding God's gift of human sexuality. To help instill and support these values in our young people.

The purpose of this program is not to impart biological information but to focus on the moral and religious dimension of human sexuality.

The program respects the role of parents and focuses strongly on the Catholic values that help to form the gift of our human sexuality.

Growing in Love is based on seven key themes of Catholic education in relationships, family life, and human sexuality. All seven themes are taught at each level of the program, focused through the lens of one particular age-appropriate theme.

Horizons is a religion curriculum designed for use with senior high youth in parish programs. Each of the four levels of the program is made up of a combination of core courses and minicourses. Horizons is grounded in the educational approach known as active learning. Teachers lead the participants through creative learning experiences and then invite them to reflect of the experiences. Prayer, Scripture and other elements of Christian faith are carefully integrated into every course in the series.

The I Am Special program is based on the belief that young children need to develop positive self-concepts. Children's ability to know God and their ideas about God are strongly influenced by their ideas about them selves. Children need to feel good about themselves in order to love others as themselves.
The l Am Special early childhood program provides religious experiences along with various individual and group activities that help children form Christian attitudes about themselves and others.

The I Am Special program is based on the belief that young children need to develop positive self-concepts. Children's ability to know God and their ideas about God are strongly influenced by their ideas about them selves. Children need to feel good about themselves in order to love others as themselves.
The l Am Special early childhood program provides religious experiences along with various individual and group activities that help children form Christian attitudes about themselves and others.

The I Am Special program is based on the belief that young children need to develop positive self-concepts. Children's ability to know God and their ideas about God are strongly influenced by their ideas about them selves. Children need to feel good about themselves in order to love others as themselves.
The lAm Special early childhood program provides religious experiences along with various individual and group activities that help children form Christian atti tudes about themselves and others.

The Image of God religion series is an exciting and comprehensive Catholic program that has as its foundation the creation of human beings in God's own likeness. The greatest confirmation of man's unique dignity is the Incarnation of Christ, the God-man who is the perfect image of the Father and who reveals God as Love, especially by the Cross and Resurrection. In revealing God, Christ showed us who we are and how to act. This emphasis on the dignity of the individual child as the foundation of this series is taken from Scripture, the documents of Vatican II, and the writing of John Paul II. It presents the Catholic Faith in a stimulating and easy to read format that is being praised by teachers, pastors and bishops.

Journey of Faith is a catechetical program designed for use primarily in RCIA classes. It includes a total of 44 lessons contained in individual four-page handouts. Lessons from Inquiry through Mystagogy explore basic Catholic beliefs and practices. Covers topics from a Catholic approach to the bible, the sacraments, morality, prayer, and the liturgical seasons, and much more. Thought-provoking questions help participants relate each topic to their own personal experience.

Those who have previously used Liguori's Journey of Faith will be happy to know that it's still the SAME GREAT PROGRAM, energized with eye-catching color and a more dynamic presentation. Also, for the first time a Leader's Guide has been developed to accompany the program.

The Knowing Our Catholic Faith work texts are not intended to be used as a formal school or parish religious education program. Rather, they provide supplemental material for review, further understanding, and reinforcement of children's learning about the doctrines and traditions of the Catholic Church.

The young person is the starting point of adolescent catechesis. He or she has a story to tell, hopes and aspirations to be encouraged, and experiences to share. Therefore Living Our Faith meets young adolescents where they are, with materials that honor their experience and invite them to grow in their faith.

Each of the six titles in the Living Our Faith series consists of ten chapters and includes a Student Text and a Leader's Guide.

The Student Text incorporates the following features:
Opening the Word
Provides a relevant Scripture passage pertaining to the chapter.

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.

The intention of this seasonal resource is to assist the catechist in leading the students, not only in a celebration of liturgical prayer resplendent with the use of full and robust symbols
associated with the seasons, but also in facilitating the goal of liturgy, which is to invite
transformation in the lives of those who celebrate it. The Church teaches that the seasons of the year highlight the mission of Christ specific to each season. The liturgies of the liturgical seasons invite reflection on the mystery of Christ within the prism of the themes inherent in each season.