The Gospels For Young Catholics

Provides children with important information and explanations of the events in the gospels about Jesus

The perfect companion to the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies, The Gospels for Young Catholics provides the complete text of all four Gospels in an easy-to-use, instructional format that will accompany children in their faith journey and strengthen their knowledge of the Gospels. Features include: - Includes 52 "featured story" pages. - Resource pages include background for each Gospel, a reading plan, and more. - Four pages of pull-out bookmarks help readers to locate favorite parables, family and friends of Jesus, the women of the Gospels, and more. - Good News translation in accessible language for young readers ages 7-13. - Sturdy flex cover will last for many years.

Paraphrases the Old and New Testaments and provides introductions to each book of the Bible along with illustrations, maps, and information about the history, geography, and theological teachings.

As the title suggests, Breakthrough! The Bible for Young Catholics highlights what happens throughout salvation history between God and humanity. God breaks through and connects with human history, thereby establishing a relationship with humanity. Using the Good News translation, Breakthrough! The Bible for Young Catholics was created for young people leaving childhood and entering adolescence. Its ten special features were created to help make the Bible easier for young people to read and understand. They will learn about the great people of the Bible, and will see how God has been breaking through in human history and connecting with humanity for thousands of years. Most important, they will discover, in the Bible, how God's messages to key people of faith have meaning for life today.

Getting to Know Jesus student activity workbook contains fourteen worksheets that explore the life of Jesus and his teachings. Each worksheet contains a creative learning activity on one side that requires reading from the Gospels to complete. The worksheet's other side contains additional background information, reading suggestions, and refl ection questions.

"Each chapter includes these features: an overview of the character, scripture passages related to the character, Breakthrough! articles that pertain to the character, a list of similarities between young adolescents and the biblical figure, biblical quotes that point to God's presence n the character's story, [and] a 'Getting to know the biblical character' activity (or activities) that explores who the biblical character is and makes connections between his or her relationship with God and the young people's own life experience"--Back cover.