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BrendaPeter
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Posted: May 09 2007 at 4:48pm \| IP Logged

Can anyone tell me about these 2 books?

The Complete Children's Liturgy Book

Celebrating the Gospels

Thx!

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Posted: May 09 2007 at 6:45pm \| IP Logged

Brenda,

I know nothing about the books. When I see new books, I check out who is the author, and when I don't recognize the name, I check out the publisher. Both publishers I have reservations, meaning I need to examine each material on a case-by-case basis.

There's more blurbs about the book from the publisher's sites:

The Complete Children's Liturgy Book

Celebrating the Gospels.

The second title looks more promising, as the "Children's Liturgy" sends a red flag of "dumbing down" the Mass for children 4-7.

But all of this is personal opinion, which you can take with a grain of salt.

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Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:07am \| IP Logged

Jenn, You're a gem!

I learned about them on Dawn's blog but it was awhile ago so I PMed her to see if she can help out.

Thx a bunch!

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Posted: May 10 2007 at 7:14pm \| IP Logged

Brenda, I use bits and pieces of both books. The Children's Complete Liturgy Book is geared toward younger children. It has a coloring page for each week's Gospel theme, and an overview, a prayer, some discussion and activity ideas. The activity pages are generally to be photocopied and colored. They're a little cartoon-ish, but cute.

Celebrating the Gospels is for older children (or I think, can be used as a family with multiple aged children). It presents a reflection of the Gospel and gives some "talking" suggestions as well as some "doing" ideas. They offer a prayer to use as well. A neat thing is for each week there is a Scripture "banner symbol" a small square with an image representing the week's theme. The idea is to color and add each one to a poster or a banner of some sort. We didn't keep that up, but I think it's a nice idea.

I look at both those books each week and see what each has to offer. We also use our Magnifikid.

Hope that helps a little!

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Posted: May 10 2007 at 8:42pm \| IP Logged

Thanks Dawn! That helped quite a bit!

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