by Susan Blum Gerding, Ed.D.
This series of books was initially written as follow-up manuals for various Isaiah Parish Missions, with chapters corresponding to the sessions of the mission. Some also offer Facilitator's Guides and Videotapes as supportive materials.
These books may be used very successfully,though, as a resource for adult education discussion groups or independent adult religious education studies.
All include Scripture, prayer, discussion, sound Catholic theology, reflection questions, activities, homework assignments, and thought-provoking quotations.
Renew Your Faith(Isaiah 43 Mission) provides a viable resource for enablement in renewing, enriching, and deepening your faith life. Each chapter offers support for each corresponding session of the mission.
Renew Your Faith attempts to nurture, nourish, and bring to full blossom our faith. It is designed to clarify, reinsitute, reinforce, and enflesh the basic, central core truths of our faith with the goal of enlivening and empowering us to live life fully, to experience abundant life, as Jesus promised.
1) Renew Your Faith: Why Bother?
2) God's Unconditional Love"
3) Forgiveness: Salvation Now!
4) Jesus!
Designed to supplement the Isaiah 43 Mission, this manual may be used for independent home study or adult religious education seminars.
1992. 140 pp., $7.95.
Faith in Action(Isaiah Revisited Mission)offers a four session process for groups or individuals with five goals:
1)To enable, encourage and empower you to the “doers of theWord”;
2) To challenge you to new awareness, to raise your consciousness to social justice issues;
3) To invite you to consider different waysofthinking about your faith;
4) To offer a variety of alternative actions through concrete options and practical suggestions;
5) To enrich the faith dimension of your life.
1989. 90 pages, $8.95.
Called and Sent: Living the Eucharist, (Blessed and Broken Mission) is a four-session process designed for individuals or groups.The author, a convert to the Catholic faith, explores the depth and breadth of the Mass, sharing her life-changing experiences of the Liturgy as well as basic teachings on the four specific parts of the Mass. Chapters include
1) The Introductor Rite (All Are Welcome);
2) The Liturgy of the Word (“Breaking Open the Word”);
3) The Liturgy of the Eucharist (“Broken and Blessed”); and
4)The Commissioning (“Sent Forth for the World”).
2002, 80 pp., $7.95
CHRIST THE CORNERSTONE
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Christ the Cornerstone:Christians Coping in a world of Chaos and Confusion (Building The Kingdom Mission)is designed to help Christians cope in a rapidly changing world of chaos and confusion. Against the backdrop of the September 11 attacks, the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, and a crumbling economy and crumbling corporate ethics, a reasoned four-point formula is provided to alleviate fear, encourage "normalcy," and assure a solid pastoral and theological foundation. This same four-part formula remains current in the rapid changes of the 21st Century:
1) Name the Feelings; 2) Address Stumbling Blocks;
3) God's Healing Power; and
4) Instruments of Change.
144 pages, 2002, $9.95
1989, 90 pp., $7.95. Facilitators Guide, $2.95. Videotape, $30.A series of books designed to be used in conjunction with various Isaiah Parish Missions