Browsing Catholic Activities: Instruction (Activity Type)

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• La Falla de San Chusep—Saint Joseph's Day in Valencia

• A Christmas Jesse Tree

• A Christmas Quiz

• A Day of Penance and Prayer

• A Two-Fold Theme: Baptism and Penance

• About Not Holding a Grudge

• Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

• Advent — The Immaculate Conception

• Advent Penances

• All Souls Day Family Devotion Ideas

• Ancient Carols and Hymns

• Angelus Lesson

• Anointing of the Sick

• Ash Wednesday

• Ash Wednesday Pretzels: Fastenbrezel

• Athletics—Yes and No

• Attending a Catholic Wedding

• Attitudes on Confession

• Attitudes toward Miracles

• Baptism Catechesis

• Baptismal Day

• Baptismal Names

• Bible Stories for Children

• Bringing Home All The Sacraments

• Can Catholic Parents Thwart a Religious Vocation?

• Catechesis for Children

• Catechesis for the Feast of St. Thomas

• Cautions on Dating

• Celebrating Advent and Christmas

• Celebrating Christmas Day at Home

• Celebrating for the Feast of St. Francis Xavier

• Celebrating for the Feast of St. John Damascene

• Celebrating St. John the Apostle

• Celebrating the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in the Home

• Celebrating the Holy Innocents

• Character Training in School

• Childhood Games

• Choosing Playmates

• Christmas at Home and in the Liturgy

• Christmas Crib or Creche

• Christmas Eve Midnight Mass

• Christmas Music: Caroling, Folk Dancing and Yodeling

• Christmas Traditions

• Church Etiquette

• Confession Catechesis

• Confidence in God

• Confirmation Catechesis

• Considerations for Parents of Small Families

• Corpus Christi Hymns

• Courtesy in Children

• Customs of Christmas Eve

• Daily Physical Care for Your Child

• Dare to be Different

• Day Twelve—Activities for the Feast of Epiphany

• Day Twelve—Activities for the Twelfth Day of Christmas

• Dealing with Disobedience

• Dealing with Disobedience

• Dealing with Fear in Your Child

• Dealing with Problem-Playmates

• Dealing with Vulgarity of Speech

• Description of Ember Days

• Developing Our Friends the Senses

• Devotion to the Saints

• Directing Your Child

• Discipline for Children

• Discovering and Developing Gifts

• Don't Stress Sin Too Much

• Early Sex Experimentation

• Easter Breakfast

• Easter Egg Symbolism

• Easter or Paschal Candle

• Easter Sunday Activities in the Home

• Easter Symbols and Food

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: 'Copy Jesus' for Love

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Difficulties in Reading

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Living and Loving

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Radio in the Home

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Regularity in Prayer

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Singing and Music

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Teaching by Example

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Teaching Obedience in Elementary Children

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Teaching Purity at the Elementary Age

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Teaching Religion by Pictures

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Training by Doing, Children and the Whole Church

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Truthfulness in Elementary School Children

• Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Two Homes, Heaven and Earth — Building up Family Unity and Security

• Emotional Needs of Adolescents

• Emotional Stability

• Encouraging Creativity

• Engagement and Wedding

• Enthronement to the Sacred Heart

• Epiphany Mass

• Epiphany Mass in an Eastern Rite

• Examination of Conscience

• Examination of Conscience for Children

• Explaining a New Baby to Children

• Explaining the Mass and Sacraments

• Explanation of Ember Days

• Explanation of Epiphany, or the Manifestation of the Lord

• Explanation of the Verse: 'Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature'

• Familiar Hymns and Carols

• Family Excursions

• Family Prayer

• Family Rosary

• Fatima and the Popes

• Fava Beans for St. Joseph's Day

• Feast of All Saints Ideas for the Home

• Feast of Saints Peter and Paul

• Feast of St. Blaise

• Feast of St. Blaise

• Feast of St. Christopher

• Feast of St. Michael the Archangel

• Feast of the Annunciation: Origin and Traditions

• Feast of the Guardian Angels

• Feast of the Holy Family

• Feast of the Holy Family - II

• First Confession

• First Holy Communion Preparation

• Fish Mobile

• Five Principles of Discipline

• Forming Good Habits

• Forming the Habit of Holiness

• Fostering Good Taste

• Fourteen Holy Helpers

• Giving of Presents

• Good Example — A Lesson in Discipline

• Good Friday Activities

• Good Friday Activities in the Home

• Good Friday in the Home

• Good Friday Remembrance

• Graduation Days

• Group Activities

• Habits of Prayer in the Family

• Hear No Evil

• Help Your Child Avoid a Mixed Marriage

• Helping Mother

• History of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart

• History of the St. Joseph Altar

• History, Customs and Folklore of Advent

• Holy Saturday Activities in the Home

• Holy Saturday and Easter in the Home

• Holy Water

• Home Equipment for Junior Grade Artists

• Honesty

• How God Provides

• How Sanctity Does Not Come Easily

• How the Devil Tempts Us

• How to Answer Your Child's Questions About Sex

• How to be a Good Father

• How to be a Good Mother

• How to Best Prepare Your Child for Marriage

• How to Deal with People

• How to Help Your Child Go to College

• How to Instill Obedience

• How to Teach Children From Pictures

• How to Teach Your Child About Sex

• Humble Confession

• Humility and Detachment

• Ideas for the Feast of the Birth St. John the Baptist

• Importance (for parents) of a Good Example

• Importance of Easter Customs

• Importance of Liturgy during Lent

• Importance of Modesty in Dress

• Inform Yourselves as Parents

• Instilling a Love of Learning

• Introducing God to Our Children

• Introducing the Holy Family to Your Baby

• Jesse Tree Ornament Ideas and Blessing

• Jonas and Holy Week

• Kindness and Courtesy

• Lenten Alms Jar

• Lenten Fasting and Abstinence Regulations

• Lenten Practices for Children

• Lenten Reading Program

• Lenten Resolutions

• Lessons From Play

• Life of St. Martina

• Living the Liturgy in the Home for Advent and Christmas

• Loving and Thanking God

• Lying and Stealing

• Marriage Preparation (Avoiding Certain Kinds of Men and Women)

• Mary, the Mother of our Children

• Mastering a Temper

• Masturbation and Homosexuality

• Maundy Thursday and the Passover Meal

• Maundy Thursday: Do Unto Others

• May Day

• Meaning and History of Christmas

• Meaning of Epiphany

• Meditation for February, the Month of the Holy Family

• Meditation on Pentecost

• Mexican Sign of the Cross

• Miniature Mystical Body -- Raising Children to Be Adults

• Morning Offering

• Mother's Day

• Motivating Children to Perform Good Deeds

• Nameday Celebration Prayers and Ideas for Saint Thomas

• Nameday Prayers and Ideas for St. Paul the Apostle

• November and the Holy Souls

• O Antiphons - December 17 - 24

• Obedience

• Offering it Up

• On Celebrating Baptism

• On how our Work is Love, and how we can work with Christ to save Souls with our Love

• On Parental Duty and How Parents Let Their Children Risk Chastity

• On Preventing Pride and Vainglory in Children

• Open Your Hearts and Your Home

• Orderliness

• Our Lady of Mount Carmel

• Our Lady of the Rosary

• Pain and Suffering

• Palm Sunday and Holy Week in the Home

• Parenting Application

• Parents are the First Teachers

• Parochial School Dilemma

• Parties

• Patron Saint: Ann

• Penitential Aspect During Advent

• Pentecost "Novena" — Focus on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit

• Personal Program for Lent

• Play and Prayer

• Plenary Indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday

• Plenary Indulgences Attached to the Year of St. Joseph

• Policy-Making

• Pope St. Gregory the Great and Cherries

• Post-Midnight Mass Traditions

• Practical Problems of Adolescents

• Practical Suggestions for Christian Living (Anointing of the Sick)

• Practical Suggestions for Christian Living (Baptism)

• Practical Suggestions for Christian Living (Confirmation)

• Practical Suggestions for Christian Living (Holy Eucharist)

• Practical Suggestions for Christian Living (Holy Orders)

• Practical Suggestions for Christian Living (Matrimony)

• Practical Suggestions for Christian Living (Penance)

• Prayers to the Blessed Trinity

• Praying for Intentions

• Precious Coins: Mortification and Self-Denial

• Pre-Lent, or Carnival in the Home

• Preparing for First Holy Communion

• Preparing Your Child for Puberty

• Preschool Parent Pedagogy: Christian Use of Pictures

• Preschool Parent Pedagogy: Dealing with Tantrums

• Preschool Parent Pedagogy: How to Tell Stories

• Preschool Parent Pedagogy: Lessons from Books

• Preschool Parent Pedagogy: Planning the Teaching of our Faith

• Preschool Parent Pedagogy: Sorrow for Sin

• Preschool Parent Pedagogy: Teaching Obedience in Preschool Children

• Preschool Parent Pedagogy: Truthfulness and Courage in Preschool Children

• Procession on Candlemas

• Protecting Your Child from Outside Influences

• Qualities to Seek in a Mate

• Radio and Television

• Raising Truthful Children

• Reading Aloud

• Receive the White Garment

• Reflections on the Feast of the Presentation

• Regular Allowance

• Relating the Bible to Liturgy

• Religion in Daily Life

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: April

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: August

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: December

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: February

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: January

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: July

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: June

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: May

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: November

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: October

• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: September

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: April

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: August

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: December

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: February

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: January

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: July

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: June

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: March

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: May

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: November

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: October

• Religion in the Home for Preschool: September

• Resources for Celebrating Advent in the Home

• Responsibilities of Parents with Children in Public Schools

• Rhyming and Dancing

• Sacrament of Confirmation

• Sacramental Life in the Home: Baptism

• Saint of the Month

• Sanctifying Your Work

• Santa Claus

• Scripture in the Home

• Season of Easter

• Security of Faith within the Home

• Self-Defense vs. Detachment

• Sex Instruction

• Singing and Acting

• Sorrow, Keystone for Lent

• Spirit of Lent, The

• St. Canute's Day

• St. Catherine of Siena on Loving Your Neighbor, the Poor, and God's Omnipresence

• St. Francis Xavier: Letter on the Missions, to St. Ignatius de Loyola, 1549

• St. Isaac Jogues

• St. Joseph's Table or Buffet Dinner

• St. Joseph's Table: An Age-Old Tradition

• St. Madeleine Sophie Barat

• St. Maria Goretti -- Model of Chastity

• St. Nicholas Customs

• St. Patrick's Testimony

• St. Paul's Family Tree

• St. Philip's Suggestions for Idleness and Learning Patience

• St. Therese — Stubborn Saint

• St. Valentine's Day

• Story of St. Paul the Hermit

• Story of St. Wenceslaus

• Story of the Holy Name of Jesus

• Story of the Martyrdom of Sts. Felicity and Perpetua

• Story-Telling

• Sundays in the Family

• Supernaturalizing God's Creation

• Taking Children to Mass

• Teaching About Criticism

• Teaching About Death

• Teaching About Prayer

• Teaching About Selfishness

• Teaching About the Mass

• Teaching Baptism Through Scripture

• Teaching Children About Sickness and Death

• Teaching Obedience

• Teaching Perseverance

• Teaching Sanctifying Grace

• Teaching Self-Denial

• Teaching the Ascension

• Teaching the Creation Story

• Teaching the Dangers of "Going Steady"

• Teaching the Immaculate Conception

• Teaching the Sacraments

• Teaching the Trinity

• Teaching Through Example

• Teaching Your Child to Know God

• Temper Trouble

• Tenebræ

• Thérèse of Lisieux — Stubborn Saint

• Thanksgiving Day

• The Advent Tree

• The Art of Self-Denial

• The Case for Catholic Higher Education

• The Catholic Pupil in the Public School

• The Child and His Teacher

• The Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy

• The Crucifix as a Sacramental

• The Death of St. Monica

• The Family

• The Feast of Candlemas and Its Customs

• The Feasts of Light: Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas

• The Home, a Training Ground

• The Home: A Miniature Church

• The Home—Training Ground for Life

• The Kaleidoscope of Lent

• The Liturgical Life of Christians at Rome in Post-Apostolic Times

• The Liturgical Year

• The Liturgy of Lent

• The Man of the House

• The Masses of Christmas

• The Mystery of Lent

• The Parent and the Teacher

• The Parochial School

• The Passover Meal: 1. Introduction

• The Precepts of the Church

• The Public School

• The Sign of the Cross

• The Springtime of Lent

• The Stational Church

• The Story of St. John the Baptist

• The Tempo of Life

• The Three O'Clock Hour

• The Tree Decorations

• The Trinity and the Mass

• Time for God

• To Spank or not to Spank?

• Traditions related to Saint Joseph

• Training Against Impure Thoughts

• Triumph of the Cross

• Turn to the Lord with a Pure Heart

• Understanding Your Child

• Using the Right Words

• Value of Fasting, The

• Waiting for Prayers to be Answered

• We Are Kings

• Wedding Anniversary

• What About "Dirty Words"?

• What is a Nameday?

• What is Advent?

• What Role Do the Apostles Have in the Liturgy?

• What Truths to Teach

• What Your Child Needs

• When Children Doubt Religious Truths

• Why Ashes?

• Why Celebrate the Liturgical Year?

• Why Fasting and Abstinence?

• Why Forty Days?

• Why Forty Days?

• Why Send Your Child to Catholic Schools?

• Why teach at home?

• Winning and Losing

• Words of Affirmation

• Work and Prayer

• Work and Vocation

• Work as Punishment

• Working for Others

• Working on Sundays

• Your Child's Spiritual Training