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Microshifts to Create a Retreat Atmosphere

Denise Gorss

Transformation often comes from small changes, and making these small changes, or MicroShifts, as author Gary Jansen calls them, can improve the faith formation experience for both catechist and young people. Consider how these microshifts can create a retreat atmosphere in the catechetical setting. Silence A silent retreat offers the opportunity to quiet oneself to be aware of God’s presence in a way not possible in the noise we’re so often immersed in. While I […]

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Three Ways to Turn Your Faith Formation Class into a Mini-Retreat

Darcy Osby

We live in such a highly-stimulated world, and no one experiences this more than our children. Their TV shows, movies, commercials, and even their school days are packed with flashes of images, sounds, and movement. This may create a sense that quiet and stillness is the worst possible environment. We know, however, that it is precisely in quiet and stillness that we are able to hear God whispering to our hearts. Only in quiet and stillness […]