LINKS

ECDD Member Eparchies
 
The “Office of Educational Services” page on the website of the Eparchy of Newton (www.melkite.org) contains descriptions of its programs and an online catalog of its publications.

 The “Pastoral Ministry Office” page on the website of the St Josaphat Eparchy of Parma (www.stjosaphateparchy.org) includes a description of its programs and online versions of its newsletter. To order publications of the office and other eparchial publications, open the “Bookstore” page on the same site.

The "Religious Education" page on the website of the Eparchy of Canton (www.romaniancatholic.org) contains a description of the Good Shepherd Catechesis, based on a Montessori method, used in the eparchy.

See the "Religious Education" page at www.usamaronite.org for the newsletter of the Maronite Eparchy for the Western U.S. Catechetical material for the Maronite Church is available on www.stmaron.org. Open both the Saint Maron Publications” page and the “Maronite Voice Publications” page.

Information from the Office of Religious Education of the Stamford Eparchy may be accessed from that Eparchy's new web site, www.stamforddio.org.

Links to Sister Churches:

For easy access to the sites of all Eastern Catholic and Orthodox jurisdictions in America, see the links page of www.byzcath.org.

For some unusual links to Eastern Catholic sites throughout the world, see www.rumkatkilisi.org (the web site of the Society of St John Chrysostom of Ayatriada rum katoliki Kilisi, Istanbul), in serious need of updating, but still worth exploring.

Eastern Christian Catechetical Links:

The Religious Education Department of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese has an extensive site including their online catalog, a real time adult formation course, the Internet School of Orthodox Studies, and the Cana Catechetical Resource Center. The “Teenage Curriculum” page contains lessons from their Cana Curriculum currently in development. Go to www.goarch.org and look for “Religious Education” under “Ministry Outreach.”
The Greek Archdiocese’s Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries has a catechetical program of its own designed for youth group meetings. To order, open the “Youth and Young Adult Ministries: page on the same site.

The focus education project of the Orthodox Church in America’s Office of Religious Education includes useful resources and ideas for lessons and projects on common catechetical themes such as “Journey to Pascha,” “Season of Christmas,” “Hearing God’s Call” (Theophany) and “The Earth Is the Lord’s” (environmental issues). See the OCA website, www.oca.org/focuseducation.

The Orthodox Christian Education Commission is the cooperative catechetical publishing agency of the canonical Orthodox jurisdictions in America. To order from their catalog online, see www.orthodoxed.org.

The “Church School” and “Lessons” pages at www.orthodoxonline.com contains an easily accessible and impressive amount of lesson resources, lesson plans, games and projects easily integrated into any curriculum series.

Another source of projects, worksheets and strategies is the "Out of the Box" page of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese Christian Education Department (www.antiochian.org).  Their teen journal, "Cross and Quill," has downloadable articles useful for high school classes and youth groups.

The parents’ magazine, Orthodox Family Life, always contains material that catechists (and priests!) wish they had thought of, such as suggestions for feast day activities. Go to www.theologic.com and open their “Orthodox Family Life” page.

The Religious Education Department page of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese (www.antiochian.org) includes their youth magazine, “Cross and Quill,” as well as project activities for church schools.

Documentation

The "Documents" pages at www.catholicculture.org provide access to the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy's General Catechetical Directory (1971) and its successor, the General Directory for Catechesis (1997) as well as the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Sharing the Light of Faith: National Catechetical Directory for Catholics of the United States (1979).