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Comment on 3 Minute Retreat Mondays by Marc Cardaronella

Marc Cardaronella — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:39:00 +0000

Very cool Jonathan! I’ve got Fridays. See you there. u00a0

Comment on Catechesis and the RCIA: The Catechumenate by Marc Cardaronella

Marc Cardaronella — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:06:00 +0000

Great pointu00a0about catechesis beingu00a0about more than doctrine. That’s only one quarter of the Catechumenate and presumablyu00a0everything else. That’s a tough one to thinku00a0about sometimesu00a0because we get so caught up in the actual teaching portion so much. Iu00a0think of these as all working together to form a whole. The liturgy, prayer, and service come togetheru00a0with the doctrine to form a bigger, richer picture ofu00a0the Faith. All four can mutually enhance each other to give a more complete catechesis driven by the doctrine.u00a0

Comment on Catechesis and the RCIA: Purification and Enlightenment by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:14:00 +0000

I love your final comment. This is an example of how ALL catechesis should resemble the catechumenate. Now, the challenge for our leaders is to make this work. u00a0I could see adapting the Scrutinies for use as prayer during sacramental meetings… along with the idea of the community supporting and helping candidates for sacraments to prepare by example.

Comment on “The witness of Christian life given by parents” by William O'Leary

William O'Leary — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Great quote!!!

Comment on “Today’s pupils are accustomed to…” by Jennifer Fitz

Jennifer Fitz — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:51:00 +0000

That’s a funny thing.u00a0 Our parish is low-tech, and our students are not.u00a0 The kids asked for smart boards when we went to build our new education building, since that’s what they have at school.u00a0 They got good ol’ dry erase.u00a0 But we get an excellent response from students by using old-school methods — class discussion, educational games, low-key dramatizations, flannel board and hands-on work for the littles, and so on.u00a0 If anything, maybe they like the real-life interaction after being stuck in digital world all day?n

Comment on “Today’s pupils are accustomed to…” by Deborah Matulewicz86

Deborah Matulewicz86 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:37:00 +0000

Very Well Written, Jonathan. This is all the reason why we are talking about the technology of catechesis.u00a0 It’s not what we are used to today …. it’s about what the little ones are accustomed to using.u00a0

Comment on “Today’s pupils are accustomed to…” by YMJoe

YMJoe — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:35:00 +0000

As schools start utilizing iPads & E-Readers more and more often (3rd graders by me), where are our publishers? u00a0Where are we as catechetical leaders at in testing, and thinking up ways to use these tools? u00a0What will the youth be thinking when at school all text and workbooks are on the same tablet, but they come to RE and get a book that they have to use a real pencil on? u00a0

Comment on The Grumpy Old Catechist on E-Books by Jonathan F. Sullivan

Jonathan F. Sullivan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:12:00 +0000

Good point, Nick. I’m definitely griping about ebooks as they exist right now, and my concerns definitely spill over into the move toward cloud services.nnI’d love to see ebooks shed DRM, just as digital music has done. But that assumes a common open format will emerge; if Apple’s textbook announcement is any indication, I think we’re some time away from that.

Comment on The Grumpy Old Catechist on E-Books by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:54:00 +0000

I think some of the problems you mention are more a symptom of DRM and central control of ebooks, rather than of ebooks themselves. I doubt, for example, that you have the same concern over digitized music. Digital music–at least at the present–resides for the most part on people’s own computers. Cloud services are changing that, but I don’t think people fear that Apple is going to surreptitiously replace their copy of “Dust in the Wind” with a remix.n

Comment on The Grumpy Old Catechist on E-Books by Jonathan F. Sullivan

Jonathan F. Sullivan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:37:00 +0000

(Geek shame confession: I’ve never read Fahrenheit 451, which is why I didn’t include it in my dystopian listing!)u00a0nn”If any more than 20% of the text of a book is changed, then a new ISBN needs to be assigned.”nnI didn’t know that; that makes me feel a little better about that situation.u00a0Still, I can picture scenarios in which an oppressive regime could use the underlying infrastructure to eliminate inconvenient facts or even insert outright propaganda into textbooks or other books. As I mentioned to someone on Twitter, is makes convincing everyone that “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia” that much easier.