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Growing Faith is a supple and flexible resource. Its beauty is that it can be used throughout the parish, in a variety of settings to meet a variety of needs, but retaining unity among learners.

Its friendly voice and beautiful illustrations are designed to be attractive to users of all kinds. But perhaps its most compelling feature is that you can shape many different courses about faith, prayer, the church, and other topics by grouping the booklets as you wish.

First, download the free Growing Faith Project planner to keep your GFP materials and lesson plans organized.

For your convenience, here are ten suggested “courses” you might follow:

 

1. A Course on God and faith

What is God like?

How do we describe the Trinity?

How does Revelation occur and how is it passed

from generation to generation?

How did God create heaven and earth?

What is grace and how do we get it?

What is the end of life like?

9 Booklets: 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 20, 30, 37,46

 

2. A Course on Growing Our Faith

          What do humans want?

          How are we made in God’s image?

          Why do we sin?

          How are we made whole and free?

          How do we make a response in faith?

          How do we live our faith in everyday life?

          What is human freedom?

9 Booklets: 1, 5, 9, 10, 16, 32, 33, 34, 39

 

3. A Course on the Person of Jesus Christ

          Who is Jesus Christ?

          What did Jesus teach?

          How do we relate with Mary, his Mother?

          Why did he suffer?

          What happened at the Resurrection?

          How does he live on in the Church?

          How do we reach out in prayer?

8 Booklets: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 23, 48

 

4. A Course on the Holy Spirit

          Who is the Holy Spirit?

          What does the Spirit do?

          How does the Spirit help us live our faith?

          What role does the Spirit play in everyday life?

          What is Christian spirituality and how we do cultivate it?

          How does the Spirit help us pray?

8 Booklets: 9, 16, 24, 30, 32, 36, 44, 45

 

5. Introduction to the Nature of the Church

          How is revelation passed on to us?

          What is the church?

          Who is the church?

          What is the communion of saints?

          How does the church pray?

          How do we designate leaders?

          What is the Magisterium?

9 Booklets: 3, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 28, 36, 38,

 

6. Introduction to the Liturgy and Sacraments

          How does the Church pray?

          What are the sacraments?

          How is the liturgy the “source and summit” of life?

          How do the sacraments shape our lives as Catholics?

          What are the essential words and actions of the sacraments?

9 Booklets: 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

 

7. Introduction to Catholic Social and Moral Teachings

          What makes us free?

          What is right and what is wrong?

          How do we cultivate virtuous living?

          How do we live together peacefully?

          What are our social and moral teachings?

7 Booklets: 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

 

8. A Course on Living the Commandments

          What does each of the commandments ask of us?

          How did Jesus bring them to fulfillment?

          How do Christians follow the commandments?

          How does the church help us live as Christ teaches?

          What are the key dimensions of each command?

8 Booklets: 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43

 

9. A Course on Christian prayer

          What is prayer?

          How do we pray?

          How do we deal with distractions to prayer?

          What are the wellsprings of prayer?

          How did Jesus pray?

           8 Booklets: 1, 4, 21, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48     

10. A Complete Course on Catholicism

What is creation and salvation history?

Who is Jesus the Messiah and Mary his Mother?

How did Jesus announce the Reign of God?

How do we understand his death and resurrection?

What is life in the church?

How do we celebrate the liturgy and the sacraments?

What is freedom, virtue, values, and conscience?

How do we experience grace and faith?

What are our Catholic social and moral teachings?

How do we understand and live the Commandments

What is Christian prayer and how do we enter into it?

Booklets: 1-48

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