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Joe Paprocki, DMin, is National Consultant for Faith Formation at Loyola Press, where, in addition to his traveling/speaking responsibilities, he works on the development team for faith formation curriculum resources including Finding God: Our Response to God’s Gifts and God’s Gift: Reconciliation and Eucharist. Joe has more than 40 years of experience in ministry and has presented keynotes, presentations, and workshops in more than 100 dioceses in North America. Joe is a frequent presenter at national conferences including the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, the Mid-Atlantic Congress, and the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership. He is the author of numerous books, including the best seller The Catechist’s Toolbox, A Church on the Move, Under the Influence of Jesus, and Called to Be Catholic—a bilingual, foundational supplemental program that helps young people know their faith and grow in their relationship with God. Joe is also the series editor for the Effective Catechetical Leader and blogs about his experiences in faith formation at www.catechistsjourney.com.

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October 29th Session Summary – Part 1: Questions, Questions, Questions!

Joe Paprocki Approaches/Techniques, Intermediate Grades, Scripture

Since I have lots to share about my session last evening, I decided to break it up into smaller, bite-size pieces for you this week. Here’s the first installment.  Last evening’s session was characterized by questions, questions, questions! It seems that you can’t talk about creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac without a million questions! That’s good, of course, however, as I’ve mentioned before on this blog, catechists have […]

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Prophets of Hope: The “Flip-Side” of Getting In Your Face

Joe Paprocki Intermediate Grades

Last week, we focused on how the Prophets “got in the face” of the people of Israel to remind them to be faithful to the Covenant and to live justly. For this week’s session, we will look at the “flip-side” of the Prophets: their efforts to proclaim hope to an exiled people. The Prophets Give Hope Big Idea: We need HOPE to survive and we find HOPE in God’s MERCY Preliminaries (15 mins) Welcome and […]

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Preparing for Our Mercy Experience – Permission Forms, etc.

Joe Paprocki Intermediate Grades

Tonight, before taking the kids to church for their monthly Mass, we will focus on our upcoming Mercy Experience (formerly known as service projects!). On April 21, we will be going to the Ronald McDonald House near Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, IL, to prepare and serve supper for about 30 people currently residing there. Kudos to my DRE, Deb, and to St. Cajetan for strongly suggesting that EVERY grade of religious education be […]

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6 Comments

  1. Joe,
    I am teaching 6th grade this year, have taught 8th grade Confirmation the past 2 years. I love your website, plus I have 2 of your books. Thanks for your inspirtion and help!
    Constance R. Metzger

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  2. You truly are my guru !!! I can’t wait to try this! So excited. I did the sacrament learning stations what a hit for the parish!

    Thanks so much for your inspiration

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  3. Hi Joe,
    Like Constance, I’m teaching 6th grade this year, too (I’ve also taught 1st and 3rd thru 5th). I’m really happy I can “steal” such great ideas from you. Our Parish’s first session is this coming Monday. Thanks for sharing with us, Joe.

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