E&C Newsletter
April 2022
Quicklinks:
Children's CaSE Lessons ALL AGES
Current Conformity List
Lesson Helpers for Catechists
ECHO Newsletter
The Family Zone Newsletter
Upcoming Events
Thursday Zoom Meetings with E&C are a great opportunity to connect with the E&C Staff and fellow ministers for fellowship and the sharing of experiences/ideas.
UPCOMING ZOOMS with the FIELD:
THURSDAY, April 28 at 2:00 PM: Incorporating the Eucharistic Revival into your calendar for next year/Best practices on teaching about the Mass and Eucharist! Come with ideas to share!
ZOOM MEETINGS WILL SUSPEND during May, June, July and August
Join the meeting here:
https://zoom.us/j/97321336912?pwd=SHpZOTM1VjhzZWxFM3REMzVnRHJPUT09
Revive: A Day of Retreat for Parish Ministers is Coming!
Join us to REVIVE on June 9, 2022 for an in-person retreat day at the Carriage House at Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua will our special guest presenter, Deacon Jonathan Schott from St. John Fisher College! Retreat will include prayer, reflective discussions, lunch, self-guided tours of the gardens/Mansion, and much more! The cost for the retreat is $35 per person. Retreat registration can be found here. Don't forget to check out the awesome video tour of the gardens here.
Thursday, Jun 9, 2022, 10:30 AM
Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park, Charlotte Street, Canandaigua, NY, USA
Catechist Formation for Spring!
The title for this course is Our Faith Story: Sharing the Bible with Students and Families
It is open to all volunteer catechists as well as faith formation staff. The classes are open zooms, not webinars, so interaction is encouraged and breakout rooms will be used for small group conversation! These online courses are a great way for us to gather catechists across the diocese for important formation. Please share the details with all your volunteers!
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash
AN AFTERNOON SESSION HAS BEEN ADDED! SEE REGISTRATION LINK BELOW:
JOIN US AT 2:00 PM
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Apr 27, 2022 14:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqf-qrqz4vEtDaj9tLDPprRsVynx_8U6e5
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
OR AT 7:00 PM The Course will be repeated live!
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Apr 27, 2022 7:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcOigqzkpH9ZuIuPIKUkPlQvEfbVEFuK9
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
SAVE THE DATE for our SUMMER "STRENGTHEN YOUR CORE" Professional Development
THE EUCHARISTIC REVIVAL IS COMING!
The EUCHARISTIC REVIVAL begins in the United States on Corpus Christi Sunday, June 19. Our diocese will kick off this Revival with a special Mass at Corpus Christi Church (part of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Parish) at 10:00 am, followed by a Eucharistic Procession in the neighborhood. We hope to make this a true diocesan event by having representatives from every parish in the diocese in attendance. Who might you send? Maybe a family whose child just received First Communion and gets to wear their special clothes once again, or possibly a new member of the church who was received at the Easter Vigil! A link is available on our Revival website http://eucharisticrevival.dor.org to register your attendees by parish. We are beginning to upload many great resources including a downloadable Parish Tool Kit!
Please join us in praying the Prayer for the Revival (© USCCB):
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You!
I beg pardon for those who do not believe, nor adore, nor hope, nor love You.
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly.
I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended.
And, through the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of sinners. Amen.
Young Adult Ministry Update
Upcoming Young Adult Opportunities
SERCC Young Adult Ministry Opportunities
The Southeast Rochester Catholic (SERCC) Young Adult Ministry is for people in their 20’s and 30’s: singles, dating, engaged, married, divorced, widowed, college students and young professionals, the unemployed and the over-employed! The ministry is excited to provide some great opportunities for the spring. To learn more about these opportunities, contact Tyler Davis here or check the community’s website by clicking here.
Mix, Mingle, and Ministry with Young Adults
Thursday, April 21
2:00 p.m.
Virtual
Find additional information & opportunities for young adults
Catholic Scouting
Girl Scout Religious Emblem Summer Program
Girl Scouts can spend their summer with Jesus! This summer program allows Girl Scouts to learn more about our Catholic faith while earning a Catholic Religious Emblem. The program is offering sessions for three different Catholic Religious Emblems (Mary, the First Disciple, Spirit Alive, and Missio). Not sure what a religious emblem is? Click here! Registration can be found here. Space in the program is limited.
Adult Recognition
There are several recognitions for adults that have made positive contributions to the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, especially when it comes to incorporating faith into the scouting experience. You can find nomination forms and more information about these adult recognitions here.
YOUTH MINISTRY UPDATES
Empowering Youth to Help in Ukraine
In Need of Retreat Space?
CONTINUING THE JOURNEY CONFERENCE
April 29-May 1
St. John Paul II Youth Retreat Center
Kearny, New Jersey
Ministry Marketing Tips from a Recent NFCYM Webinar
- ALWAYS LEAD WITH YOUR WHY: You guessed it! Ours is eternal life with Christ! Be open to sharing how your invitations come from that why! Share your personal witness, talk about our hunger for the Eucharist and the human need for community and authenticity.
- Be consistent when marketing to parents. If you send a weekly email communique do it on the same day and close to the same time each week. Be clear and concise with your information and make it meaningful to their time.
- Communicate the same message across all platforms so that people are hearing and reading it in different ways.
- Use a service like Buffer.com for multi-social media posting or Fiverr.com to get you started with better social media evangelization.
- Need to better understand youth culture? Subscribe to axis.org.
Remember, marketing is a business word but our term is evangelization and that is a KEY skill as our churches work to welcome the faithful back to the pews.
Sacramental Snippets
National Gathering on Christian Initiation
Details and registration are available at www.ngci.org
Confirmation Schedule
A PDF copy of the schedule is below. If you have minor changes that need to be made, please contact Don A.S.A.P. The schedule is constantly being modified with these minor changes, please be patient as we find dates that work for adjustments.
What's New?
PARISH HAPPENINGS
Monroe West deanery is seeking a Co-Convener of the deanery meetings for next year. If you are part of that region, please consider stepping up to lead alongside Kris Burgio!
St. Lawrence Run For The Young
Available in Our Lending Library!
IN NEED OF ADAPTIVE MATERIALS for Students with Special Needs?
Here are 10 ways to use The Family Zone newsletter in your formation ministry during the Month of April!
1. Host a gathering for Preschoolers and families on Palm Sunday weekend. Give each child a palm to waive and process through your church building. Share enthusiasm and engage their imagination of Jesus processing through the streets. Sit everyone down and share Little Colts’ Palm Sunday or show them the Easter Story with the nesting eggs mentioned in the April 3 edition of The Family Zone. Tell them that a very special week is ahead! Share simple craft stations that connect them to the Triduum and send each family home with Holy Week resources for their domestic church!
2. Hand out the Holy Week sequencing cards to Middle School Aged Youth. Invite them to place them in order as a challenge against one another, using teams. At the conclusion of the challenge, talk them through the correct sequence and talk more about the events of Holy Week in a storytelling format. (4/3/22)
3. Hold a Holy Week kick-off, movie gathering for families. Provide time for conversation, simple learning stations and fellowship to give families another connection to the church during this important week in our Catholic life! (4/3/22)
4. Urge families to create their own Rock Art and send pictures in for the parish social media. (4/3/22)
5. Arrange a seven churches pilgrimage for parishioners on Holy Thursday (4/3/22)
6. Begin anticipating the Eucharistic Revival by discussing the importance of the Mass. Develop something to be shared at the Easter Mass to connect people and get them thinking about coming beyond the Easter Sunday. (4/17/22)
7. Do you have Ukranian parishioners in your parish that know how to make Pysanky eggs? If so, invite them to lead a gathering of egg decorating during which you may all gather to pray for peace as well. (4/17/22)
8. After Easter Sunday, play a round of Easter Bingo with families to remind them that we celebrate for 50 days! (4/17/22)
9. Host a “Signs of New Life” walk with families at an area park. Make the connections between the Resurrection and the spring season. (4/17/22)
10. Talk about the Paschal Mystery with youth in connection to the events we have witnessed over the past 2 years. Help them to see hope in the face of suffering. (4/17/22)
We Need Your Photo Skills
- Postures, Gestures, & Actions
- Tour of the Church
- What we use for Mass & Eucharistic Adoration
- Parts of the Mass
- Unheard Prayers at Mass
- Liturgical Seasons, Feasts, & Holy Days
All said, we need a TON of photos to accomplish this. The full list of posts/photos we need can be found at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O1DKTxgwLyJ3o0SmoJQ8Hy7ytUcwKVMYmbP9Ve2DF8Y/edit?usp=sharing
If you can provide photos of any of these, our goal is to have images from across the Diocese. They will be formatted to all be the same (looking like the one below) and accompanied by text explaining. Photo credit will be given in the post. Just email them to Don (donald.smith@dor.org). He will update the spreadsheet so everyone can see what posts have images.
KNEELING
KNEELING has historical roots as a posture of subservience. When we kneel, we acknowledge that we are in the presence of someone much greater than ourselves. It is no wonder, then, that we kneel during the consecration, when Christ is made manifest in our midst, and after receiving Jesus body, blood, soul, and divinity, into ourselves in the Eucharist. We also kneel in adoration before the exposed Blessed Sacrament, and in private prayer with God. Kneeling is our way of acknowledging that God is god and we are not.
#EucharistRevival #Catholic #DOR
Photo credit: Ben White on unsplash.com
GIFTS
#EucharistRevival #Catholic #DOR
Photo credit: Jeff Witherow
TABERNACLE
The TABERNACLE is a locked box which holds the Eucharist. Each Catholic Church has a tabernacle and personal prayer is encouraged. The Eucharist is kept for visits to the sick and homebound and well as personal prayer before our Lord.
#EucharistRevival #Catholic #DOR
Photo Credit: St. Louis, Pittsford
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New in Social Media Posts
This month we've added added social media posts to celebrate the Resurrection and New Life and we are beginning to add in posts to supplement your evangelization prior to and during the Eucharistic Revival!
New on YouTube playlists
New in the SharePoint
New on our Website
About us
Contact for information on all newsletters, evangelization, training, consultation
Mark Capellazzi, Project Coordinator of Youth and Young Adult Ministry x1375
Contact for youth ministry/young adult or Catholic scouting consultation/website questions, Certification process
Don Smith, Coordinator of Sacramental Catechesis and Family Life x1243
Contact for Sacramental information, Fully Engaged, and DOR.Training questions
Website: oec.dor.org
Location: 1150 Buffalo Road, Rochester, NY, USA
Phone: 585-328-3228