My Books:
Through the Year for Jesus and Through the Year with Mary elsewhere:
Promo videos from The St. Paul Center
National Catholic Register 2022 Buy Catholic Gift Guide
EWTN/Ave Maria Radio Catholic Connection Interview, starting about minute 34
The Catholic Post Newspaper: Book Review
Quote Me Podcast with Lindsay Schlegel
Letters to Women Podcast with Chloe Langr
Katie McGrady Show on Sirius XM Interview
Iowa Catholic Radio: Jon Leonetti in the Morning Interview
Catholic Community Radio (Starting at about minute 18)
Interview with Bonnie Way of The Koala Mom
The Regular Catholic Guy Show Podcast
Review at Equipping Catholic Families
Review at Good Books for Catholic Kids
The Front Line with Joe & Joe Podcast
Bookish Christmas Gift Guide at National Catholic Register
The Catholic Post Newspaper: Book Review
Interview on How They Love Mary Podcast
Review of Through the Year with Mary from KoalaMom.com
National Catholic Register- Dinnertable Catechesis
All about Advent & Christmas elsewhere:
Waiting in Wonder- article for the National Catholic Register
Five Ideas for Celebrating Advent in Your Classroom from Education in Virtue on Openlight Media
Advent is Not the Catholic Olympics- Podcast Interview with According to Bridget (with illustrator Shari Van Vranken)
Video Interview with The Prodigal Father
Living Lit Podcast with Diocese of Sioux Falls
Hope & Wonder on Kolbecast- Podcast for Kolbe Academy (with illustrator Shari Van Vranken)
7 Beautiful Ways to Honor Advent with Children on Aleteia
Jesse Tree Resources from Katie Warner
Our favorite Catholic books for kids from 2023 on Aleteia
Interview on Catholic Community Radio (11/21/23, starting around minute 36)
Driving Home the Faith Radio Interview
All about Lent & Holy Week elsewhere:
Faith & Feasts on Salt & Light Catholic Radio
Article in National Catholic Register
Two Become Family: Podcast interview on Lent, schooling decisions, and the struggles facing middle schoolers
Kolbecast- Interview with Illustrator Shari Van Vranken
Tripping Over the Saints Podcast
Review on Equipping Catholic Families
Driving Home the Faith Radio Interview
We Have a Pope elsewhere:
Listen to Katie read We Have a Pope on the Cuddle Up: Catholic Storytime Podcast
Cath Lit Live with Amy Cattapan
Review on Equipping Catholic Families
Thank you for the great resources but the liturgical year watercolour looks confusing with the words matching the colours. Could it be made clearer with the words and colours through arrows or the words on the colours?
ReplyDeleteThanks for that feedback! I guess I meant it to be more of an "artistic" or reflective look at the continuity of the Liturgical Year, not as much for instruction. I do have a Liturgical wheel as part of this coloring book that might be more of what you are looking for: https://www.looktohimandberadiant.com/2016/11/the-liturgical-year-coloring-book.html
DeleteI am so excited about this book. Your offerings helped me beautifully when I taught 4th grade, and now that I am teaching Junior Kindergarten, this will be a wonderful way to introduce our dear Jesus.
ReplyDeleteThanks for such a beautiful resource to teach our Children about Jesus!. I have two questions. Is there a distributor of your book in Canada? and my second inquiry, does the gospel readings in the book are meant to match with the current liturgical calendar 2020-2021 ?. I wonder if they would be different for next year. Thanks for the clarification.
ReplyDeleteHello! My publisher at stpaulcenter.com ships to Canada and last I checked it was also available through Amazon in Canada. I don't have a separate distributor there to recommend, however so I know the shipping cost might be a bit higher, I'm sorry.
DeleteThe short answer is that the readings do not match with a certain Liturgical Reading cycle, so it can be used year and after year. If you are interested in the long answer ;) here are some more details as to why:
When we began planning the book, we wanted it to revolve around the Liturgical Year and have weekly reflections. The natural next step was to look at the Mass readings. However, because the English missal is on a three year cycle, the book would only be "good" for one year if we designed it to match a specific set of readings. Having three books of this quality wasn't marketable for the publisher, because we wanted to create a keepsake book, not something that was more disposable in nature. Besides the A, B, and C reading cycles, there are also solemnities that move each year, vigils that have different readings, etc. Not to mention English speaking Catholics of different rites (Marionite, Byzantine, etc.) as well as parishes that use the 1962 Missal, all of whom have totally different readings each week.
All that being said, the only solution for creating a book that could be used year after year no matter the calendar in use was to choose the Gospel readings based on themes, not the specific cycle we are in. So the readings you see are based on the theme of that Liturgical Season and the events from Jesus' life being remembered. I also tried to fit in 60 of the "highlight" stories of Jesus' life so there wasn't too much repetition and as many of the key (narrative) events would be included as possible.
Hope that helps!
You are so generous! Thank you! I just purchased the first book and downloaded your resources.
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