FashioningFaith.org . . .

• Connects faith formation to all areas of parish life
• Offers faith formation in gathered and non-gathered ways in the four settings of parish, household, peer, and the wider community
• Provides plans for lifelong faith formation for every season of the year
• Supports families and individuals to grow in faith at home
• Includes two short articles for leaders in each seasonal posting
• Contains downloadable, customizable sessions and handouts
• Has a subscription price of $150 a year which provides access for all your parish leaders
 

Whatever the resource or approach you are currently using for age- specific catechesis, this subscription website will work with it to make lifelong faith formation a reality for your community!

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There are four settings of Catholic parish life for learning and growing in faith:  parish, home, peer, and the wider community. This website celebrates and affirms how these four settings are deeply rooted in the vision of catechesis.  In the General  Directory for Catechesis, the place of the parish community is clear, "Catechesis is nothing other than the process of transmitting the Gospel, as the Christian community has received it, understands  it, celebrates it, lives it, and communicates it in many ways" (General Directory for Catechesis, # 105).

Parish: The life of the faith community itself forms faith in its  members through worship, learning, community, and service. The site provides learning activities and strategies to offer whole parish learning sessions and to connect members to parish life.



Family: Families share faith through their lived practices and  teachable moments of faith sharing and prayer. The site provides prayer and ritual, learning, justice, and relational activities for the home church through the five ministry areas described below and for the family life cycle.


Age-Specific Peer Group: Parishes gather children, youth, and adults in peer groups  to participate in learning and ministry that is age appropriate. The site provides learning activities for children, youth, and adults.



Wider Community: This setting includes the variety of ways that we learn  and grow in faith using the resources in the wider community. This includes participation in inter-church and regional conferences and events. It also  includes the resources for faith formation found in print media and the  Internet. Fashioning Faith provides strategies and resources to connect with the wider community.

Maria  Harris, in her book Fashion Me a People,  put forward the view that the church’s educational ministry has been embodied and lived in five classical forms (ministry areas): didache, koinonia, kerygma,  diakonia, and leiturgia. We educate to all of these forms, as well as through all of them:

• koinonia (community and communion) by engaging in the forms of community and  communion;
• leiturgia (worship and prayer) by engaging in the forms of prayer and worship  and spirituality;
• kerygma (proclaiming the word of God) by attention to and practicing and  incarnating the kerygma, “Jesus is risen,” in speech of our own lives, especially the speech of advocacy;
• diakonia (service and outreach) by attention to our own service and reaching out to others, personally and communally, locally and globally;
• didache (teaching and learning) by attention to the most appropriate forms of  teaching and learning (including schooling in our own communities