A Faith Response to the Coronavirus & other pastoral tools

Faith-fully Navigating Coronavirus with Your Kids

Handout by Paul Canavese & Ann Naffziger

• English PDF
• Spanish PDF

A Faith Response to the Coronavirus /
Una Respuesta de Fe al Coronavirus

Handout by Paul Canavese

• English: PDF | Microsoft Word (text only)
• Spanish: PDF | Microsoft Word
• Many thanks to Laura Uruchima, Martin Lopez-Aburto, and Katie De Vries for their help with the Spanish language translation.

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LICENSE: You are allowed to make unlimited copies of the above eResources. You may also email them to your people or post it to your website.

FREE Sending Faith Home

This guide for pastoral leaders talks through how we can serve our people well during this challenging time.

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FREE Worship@Home

Dynamic Family Liturgy of the Word Services

What if the Holy Spirit could somehow use this mess we're in to teach families how to pray together and build up the domestic church?

Worship@Home is a free online resource to help families with children pray together at home while we are unable to gather for Sunday Mass, right from their iPad or phone. It is based on and inspired by Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest: Leader's Guide (promulgated by the U.S. Bishops) and the Directory for Masses with Children (from the Congregation for Divine Worship).

It gently coaches parents and their families through the age-appropriate prayer experience, and even makes it a little fun.

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Digital Resources to Send Home amidst the Coronavirus Shutdown

Amidst the coronavirus crisis, when many of our families are unable to gather for Mass or attend religious education sessions, we are making a full month (through Easter Sunday) of the following downloadable resources free to you and your families. Just add to your cart and checkout.

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FREE This Transforming Word Book

Lectionary Readings from The Message, with Commentary by Alice Camille

As a gift to you in this time when we cannot worship together, our friends at ACTA Publications are offering you a free copy of This Transforming Word, Cycle A by Alice Camille, which includes her commentary on each of the readings for Sundays and Feast Days for the rest of the Lectionary Cycle this year and the full scripture passages for each of those days from The Message: Catholic/Ecumenical Edition by Eugene Peterson through the end of April. Only one book per customer, please!

You will be charged $2.49 for shipping, but if you order additional items at the same time that total more than $29.80, your shipping will be free. (If you have questions or would like to order additional copies, please call 800-397-2282 or email ACTA at actapublications@actapublications.com.

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Other Free Online Coronavirus Resources

• Prayer for a Pandemic - by Cameron Bellm
• Pope Francis' Prayer to Mary
• Crisis Leadership, Christian Leadership, and the Coronavirus Epidemic - Carey Nieuwof
• A Coronavirus Prayer - America Magazine
• Facing COVID-19 with Community Instead of Fear - Yes! Magazine
• How to Handwash Catholic Style! - Diocese of Dallas
• Articles from Sojourners:
  • Our Church Doors Are Shut and Our Members Quarantined. Yet Grace Abounds. - Christ Church Georgetown
  • The First Rule of Pastoring During an Outbreak: Tell the Truth
  • The Church's Role in a Pandemic
  • The Time to Act Like a Community Is Now
  • Protect Your Mental Health While Practicing Social Distancing
  • Community without Communing: Resources for Virtual Church

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Resources for Caregivers

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Resources for Illness & Healing

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Resources for Death & Bereavement

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