Stories of God’s Love is a complete solution to religion readiness education. Stories of God’s Love is available for both preschool (ages 3-4 or 4-5) and kindergarten. It follows the USCCB’s “Guidelines for Pre-School Materials” and was written by a team of early childhood specialists. This program also meets the early learning standards of the National Association of Education for Young Children (NAEYC).
Stories of God’s Love presents the Bible as the source for learning about God. Developmentally appropriate stories are presented from the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Following the presentation of a key story from the Bible one week, the next week’s lesson invites the child to connect the Bible story to everyday life. Ten additional lessons introduce students to the liturgical seasons and holy days of the Church year.
Family pages help facilitate continued faith sharing in the home through prayer, activities, and reflection. A separate family magazine, available for purchase, helps families focus on practicing key virtues as they relate to the Stories of God’s Love lessons.
Additional program resources include the Program Director’s Manual, Music Program, and Story Posters. Online resources for children, parents, catechists, and teachers include prayers, activities, articles, and games.
The foundations of each of our Sacrament preparation programs are Sacred Scripture, Church teaching, life experience, ritual, and prayer. Our materials focus on engaging children, youth, and their families in developing deeper relationships with Jesus Christ; in preparing children and youth to receive the Sacraments; and in helping families become more active participants in the life of the Church.
Explore the meaning of rituals, symbols, gestures, and prayers to promote active participation. This program is designed to touch the heart as well as the head, engaging children using story, Scripture, doctrine and prayer. Available for both Primary and Intermediate levels, in English and Bilingual Editions.
Explore the meaning of rituals, symbols, gestures, and prayers to promote active participation. This program is designed to touch the heart as well as the head, engaging children using story, Scripture, doctrine and prayer. Available for both Primary and Intermediate levels, in English and Bilingual Editions.
Confirmation is an immediate preparation program that invites younger and older adolescents to experience God through ritual, reflect on the eight aspects of the Confirmation rite, and become full and active disciples of Jesus Christ. By supporting the goals of Confirmation catechesis outlined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Confirmation calls young people to intimate communion with Jesus, lively familiarity with the Holy Spirit, and active responsibility for the Church’s mission while centering sacramental preparation within the parish community of faith.
This practical resource is for those who prepare children to receive the Sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist in the Restored Order. It can be used with any of the RCL Benziger Confirmation and Eucharist preparation programs.
Use a ritual catechesis to lay the foundation for an experience of the sacraments that leads children to an appreciation and knowledge of the mysteries of our faith. Use this program with 7-9 year olds, or 10-14 year olds. The extensive Program Director Manuals provide helpful tips and articles, meeting plans, and special resources for celebrating the restored order of the sacraments of initiation. Both English and Spanish Editions are available.
Use a ritual catechesis to lay the foundation for an experience of the sacraments that leads children to an appreciation and knowledge of the mysteries of our faith. Use this program with 7-9 year olds, or 10-14 year olds. The extensive Program Director Manuals provide helpful tips and articles, meeting plans, and special resources for celebrating the restored order of the sacraments of initiation. Both English and Spanish Editions are available.
Integrate Scripture at the core of every lesson and remind children that everything in life is a gift. As Catholics, we respond to God’s gifts throughout our lifetime as we celebrate the sacraments with thanks and praise. This series provides a complete Family Guide for the Hispanic Community which contains a Spanish translation of the child’s books.
Integrate Scripture at the core of every lesson and remind children that everything in life is a gift. As Catholics, we respond to God’s gifts throughout our lifetime as we celebrate the sacraments with thanks and praise. This series provides a complete Family Guide for the Hispanic Community which contains a Spanish translation of the child’s books.
This bestselling program includes child’s book, family guide, catechist guide, program director’s manual, and celebrations book.
This bestselling program includes child’s book, family guide, catechist guide, program director’s manual, and celebrations book.
RCL Benziger Family Life is a comprehensive moral catechesis for families. Family Life is designed to complement the religion curriculum in your school or parish. Now for the first time RCL Benziger Family Life also integrates child safety education into a holistic approach to family life education. This best-selling program has been revised and strengthened to reinvigorate your partnership with parents. This new revision of the most popular Catholic family Life program in the United States presents the teachings of the church with clarity and offers unparalleled support for Catholic Families!
Key Features of RCL Benziger Family Life: A comprehensive Family Life curriculum that focuses on partnering with the parents – Moral catechesis utilizing a virtues-based pedagogy with emphasis on Christian living – Child safety education highlighting healthy relationships – Adaptability for both schools and parishes to accommodate multiple learning environments.
NEW Online eAssessment Platform
RCL Benziger’s new eAssessment platform provides your Catholic school or parish with the ability to monitor, track, and report completion of the Child Safety Education Standards for our Family Life program. This resource enables you to measure comprehension based upon your parish, school, or diocesan guidelines and requirements, including the Mission and Catholic Identity and Academic Excellence standards.
RCL Benziger Family Life is a comprehensive moral catechesis for families. Family Life is designed to complement the religion curriculum in your school or parish. Now for the first time RCL Benziger Family Life also integrates child safety education into a holistic approach to family life education.
Fortalezca a la Familia Católica con RCL Benziger Vida Familiar – Esta actualizada catequesis de moralidad ayuda y apoya a los catequistas, maestros y padres de familia a fortalecer a las familias Católicas que heredarán valores y virtudes católicas a muchas generaciones por venir. La catequesis Vida Familiar está diseñada como complemento para su programa de estudio actual de religión. La catequesis proporciona información sobre la vida cristiana que incluye: el enriquecimiento de la identidad católica en las familias, el aprendizaje y la práctica de hábitos que llevan a las familias a vivir un vida cristiana y las estrategias para ayudar a los niños a mantenerse sanos y salvos en mente y espíritu.
Faith First Legacy Edition School offers the most comprehensive and effective spiral method available. Every year, on every grade level, doctrinal lessons on all four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church deepen age-appropriate understanding.
In-depth Scripture study chapters encourage children to read the Bible and apply its meaning for today, and seasonal materials help make connections with the liturgical life of the parish.
Student books now available with Roman Missal, Third Edition updates!
Blest Are We Faith in Action honors the thematic approach, content, and teaching format of our treasured Blest Are We Faith and Word series. Each grade level features cover art that exemplifies a story from Scripture, highlighting that grade level’s theme. Visually appealing and theologically sound with an enhanced design, Blest Are We Faith in Action engages today’s learner on their formative journey.
The ever-changing developmental needs and aptitudes of young people are met with these key features:
Blest Are We Faith in Action supports you in teaching and developing digital disciples. Students will enjoy interactive connections with their textbooks, while teachers will find a variety of useful content for helping students on their formative journey of faith.
In this spiral-thematic curriculum, there are six standard themes – one in each grade level – and the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church are incorporated into the unit structure at each grade level. Scripture, the foundation of every chapter, leads to a presentation of Catholic doctrine – statements of belief, worship, morality and prayer. In addition, inspiring stories are included to bring Saints and other important Catholic figures to life.
Incorporating the updates to the Roman Missal, Third Edition, Be My Disciples offers engaging lessons that lead young disciples to higher levels of moral thinking and a deeper initiation into a life of prayer. Through exploration, discovery, and decision-making, children are invited to accept the challenge to follow Jesus and learn and practice the skills needed to be active disciples.
Be My Disciples shares the Christian story in a catechumenal methodology, using reflection on Scripture and doctrine, plus a prayer celebration in every class and during all the major seasons of the Church year. It initiates children into the community of faith and challenges them to discipleship.
Help students look at Scripture stories and their relevance in a new way, with bright and appealing artwork that begs a story to be told — and told again.
Our Be My Disciples program will help you meet the needs of the students and families you serve as they grow in the knowledge of their faith and live as disciples of Jesus.
Using a balanced approach, Be My Disciples is an innovative religion curriculum that empowers students and their families to answer the call to discipleship. This approach is validated by new insights in education today.
Online resources are available for children, parents, catechists, and program directors.
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Stories of God’s Love is a complete solution to religion readiness education. Stories of God’s Love is available for both preschool (ages 3-4 or 4-5) and kindergarten. It follows the USCCB’s “Guidelines for Pre-School Materials” and was written by a team of early childhood specialists. This program also meets the early learning standards of the National Association of Education for Young Children (NAEYC).
Stories of God’s Love presents the Bible as the source for learning about God. Developmentally appropriate stories are presented from the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Following the presentation of a key story from the Bible one week, the next week’s lesson invites the child to connect the Bible story to everyday life. Ten additional lessons introduce students to the liturgical seasons and holy days of the Church year.
Family pages help facilitate continued faith sharing in the home through prayer, activities, and reflection. A separate family magazine, available for purchase, helps families focus on practicing key virtues as they relate to the Stories of God’s Love lessons.
Additional program resources include the Program Director’s Manual, Music Program, and Story Posters. Online resources for children, parents, catechists, and teachers include prayers, activities, articles, and games.

| STUDENT TEXTBOOK The Student Textbook presents the history of the modern era in story form, giving proper emphasis to dates, central characters, and key concepts in each era. The central consideration of this volume is how modern ideas, institutions, and culture have developed from the high centuries of Christian culture. Drawing on the guidance of Catholic thinkers and the popes (particularly Leo XIII, Pius XI, Pius XII, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI), this history presents the hope that Christian thought and work hold for the future. End-of-chapter reviews and other material highlight dates and events, characters in history, and definitions of key terms. | ||
![]() | STUDENT WORKBOOK This workbook is thoughtfully designed to enhance students’ experience of the Light o the Nations Part 2 textbook and help them comprehend the subject matter. The workbook is a soft-cover consumable book with smooth-perforation pages for easy removal, containing over 100 pages of exercises and activities. |
Today’s cultural hurricane of smartphones and social media has transformed the landscape of human connections. With Dr. Hogan’s book, The Gift of Cultural Hurricanes: Tools to Rebuild Authentic Spirituality, you will begin to renovate your life for a healthy and authentic spirituality. Becoming familiar with the tools identified in this book will help you to see the gift of cultural hurricanes.
Dr. Hogan’s book includes a wealth of best-practice journal exercises for individuals, couples, families, and small faith communities. After reading Dr. Hogan’s book, you will learn how the following can help you rebuild an authentic spirituality.
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We invite you to discover a 3-part journey to guide you and your closest ones to break the addiction to technology, re-awaken to the sacred, and recover your relationships. View the Group Study Resources to get started.
Dr. Hogan walks you through the major points for each section of the book, The Gift of Cultural Hurricanes. He then highlights one journal exercise from each section of the book.
Dr. Hogan introduces you to Section One of the book, Recovering the Present Moment. He will help you to slow down, get grounded, and cultivate an authentic spiritual life by living in the present moment.
Dr. Hogan introduces you to Section Two of the book, Restoring the Virtue of Gratitude. He will help you take on the serious mental health consequences and spiritual challenges posed by today’s technological revolution.
Dr. Hogan introduces you to Section Three of the book, Reclaiming Emotionally Intelligent Love. He will help you to overcome the damage that smartphones and social media are doing to our relationships. Dr. Hogan will highlight how brain science and our Christian traditions can help us reconnect with one another through empathy.
Dr. Hogan will guide you through one of the journal exercises from Section One. In this video, he will walk you through “Understanding what drives our busyness” exercise found on page 37 of the book.
Dr. Hogan will guide you through two journal exercises. Be sure to have your journal available to record your responses to these exercises. In this video, he will first use the exercise “Check in with the Senses” found on page 61 of the book to help you settle in on the present moment. Then Dr. Hogan will walk you through “Gratitude for Mentors in Faith” exercise on page 106 in Section Two.
Dr. Hogan will guide you through a journal exercise for Section Three. In this video, he discusses the effective use of Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s Examen. Dr. Hogan will use the exercise “Self-awareness using the Examen” found on page 149 in the book.
In this final video, Dr. Hogan recaps the previous three sections of the book, The Gift of Cultural Hurricanes. He poses two questions to you: (1) When are we going to wake up and reverse the trends? (2) Who is going to take the lead to rebuild a more authentic Christ-centered spirituality? Dr. Hogan offers his optimism and excitement of God’s calling us to embrace the new landscape created by today’s cultural hurricane.
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