This classic book describes an experience with children from ages three to six, an experience of adults and children dwelling together in the mystery of God. Known as the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, this way of religious formation is profoundly biblical and sacramental, and it is, at the same time, deeply respectful of the nature of young children, who make their way to God in freedom and joy.'The Religious Potential of the Child' is not a 'how-to' book, complete with lesson plans and material ideas. Instead it offers a glimpse into the religious life of the atrium, a specially prepared place for children to live out their silent request: 'Help me come closer to God by myself.' Here we can see the child's spiritual capabilities and perhaps even find in our own souls the child long burdened with religious information.

The Religious Potential of the Child: Experiencing Scripture and Liturgy With Young Children

Sofia Cavalletti

Religion & Spirituality

Liturgy Training Publications

The Good Shepherd and the Child: A Joyful Journey

The Good Shepherd and The Child offers parents and educators a gentle way to enter into and honor the genuine spiritual life of children. The constant message of this book is that children's natural openness to and wonder at God s presence can be nurtured by caring adults who listen, pray, and journey with them in faith. By hearing and learning with the heart about the story and image of the Good Shepherd, children can be led to the joy of the Good News. From this simple parable and its message of Jesus' unfailing love for them, children learn how God s unconditional love is part of their world--in the family, in school, and in church.

Patricia Coulter

Gianna Gobbi

Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro

Christian Books & Bibles

Here is the continuation of The Religious Potential of the Child (from 3 to 6 years old). The author, Sofia Cavalletti, the founder of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, describes an approach to the religious education of children according to the methods of Maria Montessori. In this book Cavalletti draws on her long experience with children from diverse cultures and environments to describe the vital religious needs of the older child (6 to 12 years old).The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children age 6 to 12 builds on the foundation in scripture and liturgy offered to the 3- to 6-year-old child. The theme of the covenant between God and humankind, first revealed to the people of Israel, is expanded to include all of history, from Creation to the Parousia, the second coming of Christ. For the older child, awareness of participation in this covenant relationship leads spontaneously to a sense of moral responsibility and of engagement with the cosmos in all its manifestations.This book will be a great help to educators and catechists seeking to understand the characteristics of the older child, particularly the childs relationship with the mystery of God. Even those not familiar with the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd will find in these pages wisdom and insight into the religious life and needs of older children. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.

The Religious Potential of the Child, 6 to 12 Years Old (Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Publications)

Aren't three- and four-year olds too young for catechesis? Not according to the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. This book provides a method for fostering a child's spirituality through respect for the child's awe and wonder. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.

El Buen Pastor y El Nino

There is an inner hunger and thirst in us, which is a sign of our longing for God. Often this longing is deeper than words. Sometimes it surfaces and we ask: What can nourish the deep needs of our spirit? What can feed the great capacities of our heart and mind? What can enable us to enjoy God's presence in our lives? What can activate our enormous potential to be God's image in our world? The meditations in this book offer ways to feed this hunger and thirst--our soul's longing for "good news of great joy" (Luke 2: 10). They explore and illuminate the Christian message and are the fruit of Sophia Cavaletti's meditations with adults gathered together as listeners to the Word. Because this book arose from actual encounters, the writers invite you to enter into it as a fellow listener, meditating on scripture and liturgy alongside them.

Ways to Nurture the Relationship with God

The History of the Kingdom of God I: Creation to Parousia is a revision by Sofia Cavalletti of her earlier work, History's Golden Thread, a core text in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. Another core text, Living Liturgy, has also been revised and will be the second volume, The History of the Kingdom of God II: Liturgy and the Building of the Kingdom. Together, these two volumes offer the reader insight into Scripture and Liturgy as the means to understand God's plan of salvation history, from the creation of the world, through redemption by the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus, to its culmination in the Parousia, when God will be all in all. While this first volume is essential reading for all catechists of the Good Shepherd, anyone who studies the Bible and who seeks to understand God's revelation through sacred history will be enlightened and inspired by Cavalletti's insights and scholarship.

The History of the Kingdom of God, Part 1: From Creation to Parousia

Liturgy Training Publication

Way of Holy Joy: Selected Writings of Sofia Cavalletti, a compilation of writings by the co-founder of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, focuses on the spiritual life of the child. With the exception of one, these have not previously been published in English. As the title suggests, these essays shine a light on an often overlooked spiritual reality: the joy that is found in the relationship between God and the Child. A scholar of Hebrew Scriptures and co-founder of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Cavalletti devoted 50 years to observing children as they encountered God in the Bible, in the Liturgy, and in the sacraments. Her appreciation of the child's response, coupled with her own theological insights, provides the reader with a fresh yet profound understanding of why Jesus tells us that we must become like little children if we want to enter the Kingdom of God. The titles of two of the essays, The Child as Parable and The Child as Peace, convey something of this significance.

Way of Holy Joy: Selected Writings of Sofia Cavalletti

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

This book is a commemorative Journal from the National Association of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd USA, to honor Sofia Cavalletti, co-founder with Gianna Gobbi, of the Catechesis. It includes nine of Sofia's yearly contributions to the annual CGS Journal, and one by Francesca Cocchini, a catechist who worked with Sofia in her Rome atrium. This collection provides an understanding of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd through the eyes of Sofia Cavalletti.

Commemorative Journal Sofia Cavalletti 1917-2011

This fascinating volume offers a photographic record of the birthplace of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. In Sofia Cavalletti’s own words, readers are guided through the atrium, beginning in the place where this profound experience first unfolded more than sixty years ago.

The Development of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: Inside the Atria in Rome

Drinking from the Sources: How Scripture and Liturgy Shape Our Christian Life is a companion volume to Ways to Nurture the Relationship with God. Through P. Coulter s translation and selection of Cavalletti s meditations in the early 1970s, we experience Cavalletti s insights into the integral relationship of Scripture and liturgy and how both inform and form the Christian. Whereas Ways to Nurture focused on Scripture, here Cavalletti probes the liturgy, particularly the Eucharistic Prayers to illustrate how the Bible is one unified book, which we live in liturgy in a particular way.

Drinking from the Sources: How Scripture and Liturgy Shape Our Christian Life

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