Video Recommendations
Celebrating the Church Year for Children: Easter (V 348)
Using life situations as background, Father Jack Rathschmidt and Gaynell Cronin enable young viewers to develop their understanding of Easter liturgical and devotional practices in the context of family customs and prayer.
He Is Risen (V 726)
The power and glory of the first Easter are presented in sight and song.
Easter Season: A Time to Remember (V 803)
Kathleen Chesto shows parents how to use typical events to mirror the “letting go” that must precede new life, and the remembrance that binds the past to the present.
The Resurrected Life: Understanding the Meaning of Easter (V 1277)
Designed for viewers of all walks of life who hunger for an encounter with God, who seek paths of personal transformation and renewal, or who yearn for deeper insight into the core mystery of Christianity.
Book Recommendations
Life After Easter: Mystagogia for Everyone (BK4311)
Pamela Smith; Paulist Press
Designed to help Christians reflect, day by day, on what the Easter-event and its aftermath mean for them. The fifty reflections, based on the readings of the lectionary, help to relate scripture to everyday experience.
The Easter Story (BK 4712)
Brian Wildsmith; Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
With an enchantingly simple perspective that will engage even the very youngest child, Wildsmith offers a splendid new version of the greatest story ever told in clear, reverent language and shining gold-toned paintings.
The Joy and the Challenge: Reflections on the Readings for the 50 Days of Easter (BK 5185)
Laurin J. Wenig; Twenty-Third Publications
Father Wenig brings us back to the first days of Christianity, when the disciples were struggling with the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and all that it meant for their lives. He helps us unfold that same mystery in our lives today and shows how we can face the challenge and savor the joy of the paschal mystery.
Internet Recommendations
www.wordonfire.org
Father Robert Barron, a priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago, is a professor of theology at the University of Mundelein Seminary as well as an author and a nationally acclaimed lecturer and retreat master. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago has assigned him to do work on the evangelization of the culture. This website is part of that evangelization process.
Diocesan parishioners are encouraged to make use of the Diocesan Resource Center’s holdings. To check out these materials or others, phone Kathy Ward at 406-442-5820 or 1-800-584-8914, or e-mail kward@diocesehelena.org; visit www.diocesehelena.org/catalog for more.
Published in The Montana Catholic, Vol. 25, No. 4, April 17, 2009.
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