Creative Connections for Catechists from A - Z: Catholic Social Teaching

Author: Sr Janet Schaeffler, O.P.

5.5" X 8.5" -- 80 pages

Catechists have a lot on their plates. Teaching about the Catholic faith is not simple or easy—and who knows this better than they? The best catechists have learned that ultimately all of their teaching centers around Jesus: his teachings, the sacraments, the Eucharistic liturgy, and all of our Catholic customs and traditions. These include Catholic Social Teaching. Jesus is at the heart here too, for all social teaching focuses on loving and serving others as Jesus does.

Here Sr. Janet Schaeffler offers catechists creative (and fun) ways to focus on Catholic Social Teaching with those they teach (and their parents). She assures them that this is not something difficult and mysterious, but rather a way of life we are called to live daily. Through it, she says, catechists are responding to the mandate to serve others and to develop relationships with people whose life experiences differ from their own. She says it is a way of living their baptism as disciples of Jesus. And, she describes all this from A to Z, quite literally.

Catechists will love this book. It opens a whole new world of possible ways to live as Jesus did.