Come Gather 'Round : Time-Tested Lessons from a Life-Long Catechist

by Cimino, Carol

• ISBN13: 9781585957705
• ISBN10: 1585957704
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-01
• Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications

Summary

Imagine yourself sitting at the feet of a master teacher who is about to share with you the fruits of almost fifty years of being in the classroom. She has in fact been a teacher for most of her life, and everything she knows about teaching she has learned from the young people she taught.

Author Biography

Sister Carol Cimino is a Sister of Saint Joseph of Rochester, New York. Currently, she's a national consultant for the William H. Sadlier Co., a publisher of textbooks with offices in New York City. She has been a teacher and an administrator on all levels of Catholic education and currently co-directs the Catholic School Leadership Institute at Manhattan College. To hand on the faith is "the most awesome and fun thing" she has ever done.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Why this is important	p. 5
Words, words, words: The experience of the Word of God	p. 17
All are welcome: The experience of community	p. 22
Hold the herring juice: The experience of service	p. 31
It's the same!: The experience of prayer and liturgy	p. 37
Because I said so: The experience of orthodoxy	p. 47
This is awesome!: The experience of the sacred	p. 53
You want me to do what?: Challenges of the faith	p. 61
A martini in a teacup	p. 67
Meet the parents	p. 78
Afterword: Eight physical elements àThat make a huge difference in the classroom	p. 84
References	p. 88
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