Resources for families

Latest resources

• Parent Hub COVID-19 – Catholic Schools Office
• Parent Zoom Gatherings– hosted by Catholic Schools Office
• Images of Easter at Home – photos and ideas for sacred spaces at home
• Reflections on Holy Week & Easter Triduum – a sacred space at home (CSO 2020)
• An Experience of Holy Week and Easter at Home – Office of Evangelisation 2020
• Holy Week at Home – CSO resource 2020
• Easter Week at Home – CSO resource 2020
• Pray at Home – Australian Catholic Bishops resource 2020
• Mass on Demand – Diocese of Broken Bay website
• Sunday prayer resources – Diocese of Broken Bay
• CathKids – Free access until 30 June 2020
• Walking the Way in the Time of Coronavirus – CSO
• Easter to Pentecost – sacred spaces at home (CSO, 2020)
• More sacred spaces for special days (CSO, 2020)

Skills in Parent Effectiveness

• 52 simple ways to talk with your kids about faith (Loyola Press) – book promo
• The Family Dinner Project: teaching families the value of meaningful mealtime interaction
• At Home with our Catholic Faith: Nurturing the spirituality of your family (Claretian Publications). Single digital subscription just $15/year. Order and view a sample here.
• The Messy Family Project. Practical wisdom for parenting in easy-listening podcasts
• Parent Effectiveness Training (PET)
• Confident Parents Confident Kids – a site for supporting children’s social and emotional development
• Gratitude & Joy. 4min video by researcher and parent Dr Brene Brown. She imparts some theory and practical ideas about encouraging a grateful mindset in children.
• Resilience and your child (lifehacksforkids.co.uk)
• Fatherhood formation. A page of links for fathers.
• Father Factor  Article about the work of Robert Falzon, Men Alive

More spirituality resources for the home

• Ignatian Spirituality – learn about the examen prayer
• Marriage Resource Centre. Resources for engaged and married couples, and families.
• The Marriage Project. Events and speakers supporting the journey of marriage.
• The Messy Family Project. Practical wisdom for parenting in easy-listening podcasts
• ​CatholicMom.com – resources for family spirituality
• YoungCatholicMums.com – supportive network for young Catholic mothers
• CathFamily – resources for sharing faith at home
• Busted Halo – faith shared joyfully. Faith, life, culture.
• Together at one Altar. Resources for sacramental formation of children
• Good Grief. Programs to assist families through loss and change. An initiative of the Sisters of St Joseph.
• ‘Be Still’ – One hour of instrumental music for prayer and meditation
• Lectio Divina (‘sacred reading’) – learn about this way of reflecting on the Scriptures. Further video reflections available with Bishop David Walker.
• A Spirituality of Parenting. Short article by Fr Ron Rolheiser OMI. “Christian theology has generally been weak in its treatise on marriage. Somehow the earthiness of the incarnation, so evident elsewhere, has been slow to spill over into our thinking about marriage, sex, and family. . . . ” Read more.

Click here for resources on ‘the art of accompaniment’ 

  Walking With Families: a video series produced by Melbourne Archdiocese

1. Introduction                                                
2. Mission of the Family
3. Accompaniment 
4. The Domestic Church 
5. Contemplation, Prayer & Hospitality
6. Moving from Prayer to Action    

‘Crosses’ artwork by Harriet Perosin (2013)