Exploring the Sunday Lectionary: A Teenager's Guide to the Readings - Cycle B is an engaging guide designed to help teens explore the Sunday readings in a group setting or alone as a guide to personal reflection. Each session focuses on a particular Sunday. The authors provide background on each of the readings to put them in context, then ask a series of questions, which guide teens to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the scriptures. Some of the questions help young people connect the readings with situations they face in everyday life. An innovative Taking My Scripture Home section challenges them to act upon the truths they find in the Sunday readings. Advantages of this book: --covers all three readings as well as the Responsorial Psalm --provides factual background information describing the context of the reading --explores each reading in depth --gives two distinct experiences of scripture study: questions for a group and private reflection questions --can be used in a small or large group setting or as a personal resource --easy to facilitate --inexpensive +

This book helps teens discover the meaning of the Sunday readings, encourages them to reflect on and articulate these truths, and challenges them to put the readings into practice in their everyday lives.

Edited by Douglas Wingeier, this is a Lectionary-based Adult Bible study complete with weekly session plans that can be used by a Sunday morning class on either the preceding Sunday or on the Sunday when the sections are read. This resource may also be used by a worship planning group to review the actual scriptural content of the lections in planning the liturgical elements of the service. Study groups at times other than Sunday morning will find it useful in preparation for Sunday worship. Also available: Year A #0687098270, Year B #0687052343 Contributors: David A. deSilva, Mary Jo Osterman, Denise Nutt-Beers, Sondra B. Willobee

Seasons of Advent, Lent, Easter - Feast days.

This invaluable resource offers older children ways to fully enter the gospel stories and their teachings. It follows the gospels for every Sunday of the three-year Lectionary. Each easy-to-duplicate activity sheet reinforces the Sunday gospel message with age-appropriate questions and activities.

Bible study groups sometimes find themselves stalled in a process of sharing personal impressions while looking for more depth. Others read commentaries, but long to engage the biblical text itself. Where does one begin? A Bible Study Program Using the Sunday Lectionary offers a toolkit of approaches for reading the biblical text that a variety of reading groups have already found helpful. Unlike some study methods that emphasize the individual reader, this program keeps the community of worshippers in mind, including the historical faith community that produced the writings and the community of worshippers now reading it. The Catholic Study Bible serves as a reference for the historical community, while the schedule of Sunday Scripture readings evokes the present-day community of readers--with the bonus of enhancing readers' Sunday worship experience.

Working from his base in Edmonton, Alberta, Father Spicer has established a kind of cottage industry producing helpful and easily accessible booklets and pamphlets aimed to take readers deeper into scripture. Now, for the first time, Novalis has assembled the best of the best of these reflections and organized them according to the three-year cycle of Sunday readings. Preparing for Sunday is a hands-on, accessible resource for people who wish to explore more deeply the readings for the coming Sunday. Each Sunday lists the readings of the day, offers a brief reflection on the readings and how they relate to our lives today, and ends with four questions. The readings for each Sunday are from the Sunday Lectionary. The Sunday readings are in a three-year cycle (Year A, B and C). Each year of the cycle begins with the first Sunday of Advent and ends with the feast of Christ the King. You will find the readings in a missal or missalette. Welcome to Preparing for Sunday. May the time you spend reflecting on the Word of God bear much fruit!