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on behalf of all bishops, with Government, and other national bodies on legal,
administrative, and religious education matters in order to:
promote Catholic interests in education;
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contribute to Christian perspectives within educational debate at national level.
It works closely with the Department for Catholic Education and Formation. In addition, it liaises with national Catholic bodies to promote the catechetical policies of the Bishops' Conference.
In liaison with representatives of those working in Catholic education across England and Wales, the CES advises the Bishops on educational matters and promotes the educational policies of the Bishops' Conference.
The CES works closely with the Church of England's Board of Education and with the Free Churches' Council to promote Christian interests in education by making joint representation to Government on educational issues.
The CES maintains links with Catholic education bodies in Scotland, Ireland and mainland Europe and elsewhere in the world to inform and promote Catholic educational policies.
Books by Dr. Kevin Treston
Dr. Kevin Treston began his professional career as a primary school teacher over forty years ago and then moved to the secondary school. During the last thirty years he was worked as a lecturer and administrator at a Teachers College and University and as a consultant in fourteen countries.
Kevin's work has taken him to far away places like snow swept Labrador, the jungles of Sri Lanka, to Rome and Ireland, among tribal battles in west Papua New Guinea, to South Africa and Hong Kong, the Philippines and Scotland. His academic qualifications include MA (Hons), M.Ed, PhD, post doctoral studies at Loyola (Chicago), Boston College and the Catholic University of America (Washington). He was Visitng Scholar to Boston College.
Kevin has graduated six levels of Tai'Chi, a unit in Aromatherapy and a certified trainer in Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. During the last 30 years Kevin has conducted seminars with approximately half the staffs of Catholic schools in Australia, from Broome to Cairns, Alice Springs to Kalgoorlie. He has written 12 books, four of them have been published overseas.
His areas of consultancy include education, health care, facilitation, spirituality, leadership, church renewal and pastoral care. Kevin and Kathryn live on acreage at Samford, Brisbane and love playing with their border collie, Sammy. His special interest is growing a rainforest on their acreage.
His latest publication was
Visioning A Future Church,
Creation Enterprises, 2000.
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This is the official website of the RC Church in England and Wales and has some useful links with other sites across the country.
This site has all kinds of links to material on the Sunday Readings, feast days, maps of the Holy Land, Jerusalem, the Vatican as well as visits to various church buildings.
This site is the national RE Council's own directory of RE related organisations. It is fund of useful information
Rarely has an attempt been made to devise a systematic religious instruction for adults from the three cycles of liturgical readings for Sundays and feasts as found in the new Lectionary. The readings are dispersed over a cycle of three years designated A, B and C. This three year cycle corresponds to the three synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. It answers important questions:
What is your goal in life? Were this question put to people of all nations and races throughout the world, a great variety of answers would be forthcoming. But underlying them all would be this answer: My goal is life! I want to be fully alive. I want fullness of life such that it will never end.
Where can eternal life be found? This catechism offers the answers from the ABC Lectionary, the book from which the Word of God is read at Mass on Sundays and Feast-Days.
The main answer is that given by Jesus to the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well: "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life" (John 4, 13-14).
The Liturgical Seasons
On the night before he died, Jesus uttered this prayer: "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you; and, through the power over all mankind that you have given him, let him give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him. And eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent" (John 17, 1-3).
As Jesus is sent to reveal the Father, the prime question is: Who is Jesus? The ABC Lectionary gives a general answer to his question for each of the four Liturgical Seasons: Advent--the One who comes now and at the end of the world; Christmas--the One who manifests himself in the flesh in order to reveal God the Father; Lent--the One who leads us from servitude to sonship; Easter--the One who is exalted to the right hand of the Father and who sends us the Holy Spirit.
Sundays of Ordinary Time
The person who diligently seeks answers to the question: Who is Jesus? will also find answers to the question: Who am I? For the more he comes to know the Son and the Father and the more he is inspired by the Holy Spirit, the more he comes to know himself. Indeed, the Spirit makes him conscious of being a child of God and prompts him to utter Abba! Father! (Romans 15, 15-16; Luke 11, 2).
Feast Days of the Saints
Generally speaking we can find the answers to the question Who Am I? concentrated in the readings for the Sundays or Ordinary Time, those outside the four Liturgical Seasons.
Also during Ordinary Time occur some major Feasts that stand by themselves: Trinity Sunday, Christ the King, etc. There are also the feast days of the Saints, the readings for which encourage each one of us to discover his or her potential and identity in the examples of Mary, Joseph, Peter, Paul or any of the saints presented to us as models.
Themes: general, fundamental and particular
This catechism first presents a theme that is particular to a given Sunday or Feast-Day and then shows how it is treated in each of the three readings. There are general themes for each of the four Liturgical Seasons; besides, there are a series of Sundays which each have a fundamental theme. The themes particular to each Sunday in a given series are aspects of its fundamental theme. Thus in Lent, the general theme is Christ's leadership. In year A, the fundamental theme is how he leads us from a state of sin to a state of grace; in year B, from the impulse of the flesh to that of the Spirit; in year C, from aversion to conversion. For Sundays of Easter, the fundamental theme in year A is Faith; in year B, Charity; in year C, Hope.
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For the primary school teacher, there are over 2000 lesson plans, worksheets, articles and teaching aids for teachers and parents of 5 - 11 year olds.
TEACHER ZONE - Over 2000 lesson plans, worksheets, articles and teaching strategies available to view and download. All resources are national curriculum referenced and designed to fulfil key learning objectives.
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They have all been tried and tested by teachers in schools, so they have the practical seal of approval. Of course, not all will be what you need, or be useful, but we hope you'll be able to find something to your liking. There are worksheets, sample policies, record sheets, links to websites, ideas for assemblies and lots more.
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Dear Colleague,
A group of Primary Schools in the UK and Ireland have been working together to create a FREE website for Primary Schools on Citizenship. Their work can be viewed at www.timeforcitizenship.org.
We are hoping to get children working together to discuss aspects of Citizenship across these countries, to offer prizes for submissions to the Art gallery, and to give children a voice in the further advance of the website. The termly prizes for winning entries to the Art Gallery will be £50 for 1st, £30 for 2nd and £20 for 3rd.
A library of FREE lesson plans is available to teachers to download and use. We hope that they, in turn, will send us some plans or some aspects of an exciting lesson they have taught to share with others.
There will be a termly FREE prize draw for the schools who submit lesson plans and/or details of projects. The previous winners were schools in Dublin, Barnsley and Brussels – prizes to date have been a Microsoft X-box, a combined TV/video unit and a digital camera.
There is also an area covering parents and the emergency services, particularly the police. Various police forces are using the site to share their programmes and some of the "stuff" is excellent!
Would you like to view our site for Primary schools by Primary schools, at www.timeforcitizenship.org with a view to forming mutual links?
This a totally free service, with no strings attached.
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