Marriage And Holy Orders: Your Call to Love And Serve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594710414 ISBN 13: 9781594710414

Publisher: Ave Maria Press, 2007

(© 2007) The Subcommittee on the Catechism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has found that this catechetical high school text is in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and fulfills the requirements of Elective Course D of the Doctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for the Development of Catechetical Materials for Young People of High School Age.

Marriage and Holy Orders: Your Call to Love and Serve focuses on adult vocations in the two sacraments at the service of communion: marriage and priesthood. The discernment of these vocations involves preparation through living a chaste single life, which is also essential to living the permanent single vocation. For both women and men, lay and ordained, careful deliberation must also be given to the various callings of the consecrated life. Each chapter provides a thorough presentation of these permanent vocations.

Each chapter includes several special features:

• Panel activities that help the students foster total learning in hands (service), hearts (prayer), and mind (academic challenges).
• Review questions for each main section.
• Several Journal Assignments for deeper thought and reflection.
• Key vocabulary terms set off in margin panels.
• A Learn by Doing project for each chapter that provides a longer-term assignment.
• A Called to Prayer feature offering text from a prayer relevant to the chapter theme.

About the Author:

Michael Amodei is executive editor of adolescent catechesis at Ave Maria Press. He has authored and edited several books in the area of Catholic religious education. He has been a parish director of religious education, a youth minister, and high school theology teacher. For more than twenty years, Amodei has been a coordinator and catechist helping teens prepare for the sacrament of Confirmation. Amodei has a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in religious education from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.