The Good Shepherd and the Child

“And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor.” Luke 2:52    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study   Dr. Montessori advised, “We must revise the learning environments and approaches for these new and different children. Our method should correspond to these different stages of the child’s life, fi...

“As it was in the beginning, is now, and evermore shall be”    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Deb Pelletier is our guest on the podcast today to dive into Chapter 3 of The Religious Potential of the Child: 6 to 12 Year Old which speaks about the Globality of Biblical History. She helps break down what that means an...

“So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so must you do also.” - Colossians 3:12-13  “As moral activity develops, he [the child] wants to use his own judgment, which often will be qu...

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.” - 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18      Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Sr. Mary Rose joins us today to explore the prayer life of the second plane child—what it can look like in the atrium and beyond, how...

"When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all." -1 Corinthians 15:28    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Ann Garrido joins us on the podcast again and today she speaks about the life and theology of Pierre T...

“For if you cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and discover the knowledge of God.” Proverbs 2: 3-5    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Anna and Kerri discuss three different l...

Episode 165. Building of Relationship with Carolyn Kohlhaas  “If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered.”   Psalm 130: 3-4    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study   "Moral existence is a response to the Lord's loving initiative. It is the ackn...

“For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of the light.” Ephesians 5:8    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !  Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study   Ruth joins us on the podcast to explore the theology behind the Easter Vigil Mass and also how it parallels to the celebration of the Liturgy of Light in the atrium.   Ruth Ohm...

“If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered.”   Psalm 130: 3-4    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study   “To ‘build the house’ which morality will inhabit, some mastery of the body is necessary” (Spontaneous Activity in Education, 7: Will, 147 ...

“But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Mark 13:32    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study   “The religious needs and capacities of older children are no less great or essential than those of younger children. Their religious potential is no less strong; rather...

“But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Mark 13:32    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Rebekah joins us on the podcast today to discuss chapter 2 of The Religious Potential of the Child 6 to 12 year Olds on the Mystery of Time.   Rebekah Rojcewicz is a...

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The Lord in my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid?” - Psalm 27:1    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Joann joins us on the podcast to discuss the Introduction and Chapter One of The Religious Potential of the Child for 6 to 12 Year Olds.  Joann Terran...

"Arise! Shine, for your light has come, the glory of the Lord has dawned upon you. Though darkness covers the earth, and thick clouds, the peoples, upon you the Lord will dawn, and over you his glory will be seen.” - Isaiah 60:1-2    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     We’re kicking off Season 6! With an overarching the...

"Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it." Luke 18:17    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Today, we share stories from atria across the country, from all levels. Again and again, the children reveal their deep capacity to recognize the most essential aspects of ou...

Diane helps us think about this time of Advent as not just a time to remember what happened 2000 years ago but also preparation for today and for this unknown time of Jesus coming again.  Diane Olsen has been involved in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd since 1990. She has received all formation levels and was recognized as a formation leader in 2002. She is actively involved leading catechist...

"Hear, O Israel, The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.” Deuteronomy 6:4    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     As we begin our Advent journey—a time of waiting with the children—we hear the message of the prophets, calling us to prepare our hearts for the coming of Jesus and for the fulfillment of the history of the King...

"The unfolding of your words gives light..” -Psalm 119:130a    Submit a Podcast Listener Question  HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     “You will find God when you find your true self, and you find yourself when you find God.” Henri Nouwen  "The purpose of the contemplative life is the perfection of love.” St Thomas Aquinas  “Listening is so much like lovi...

"I salute you, Queen Wisdom. May the Lord safeguard you with your holy sister, pure and holy simplicity.” - St Francis of Assisi, The Praise of Virtue    Submit a Podcast Listener Question HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Today we read Sofia Cavalletti’s 2003 journal article “Holy Simplicity,” and then Anna Hurdle joined me to discuss the beauty and wi...

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” – 2 Corinthians 3:17    Submit a Podcast Listener Question HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Chip DeLorenzo, co-author of Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom, and his wife Kathleen, a Level I CGS catechist, join us to share how they became involved in both C...

“God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline. II Timothy 1:7    Submit a Podcast Listener Question HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Pilar joins us once again to discuss Positive Discipline and share practical tools that can help us uphold both freedom and limits—whether in the atrium or at...

“Your speech must always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.” Colossians 4:6    Submit a Podcast Listener Question HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     Stephanie and Maris dive into the huge subject of communication and how we can see it’s importance deep in our CGS roots, the value of g...

“Train the young in the way they should go; even when old, they will not swerve from it.” Proverbs 22:6    “In the absence of a faith environment where the child may live, of which he feels himself a part and in which he feels himself almost held, we risk cultivating hothouse flowers in the atrium, which are incapable of enduring the severity of the external climate. On the other hand, without a p...

“The Lord said to Abram: Go forth from your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.” Genesis 12:1    Submit a Podcast Listener Question HERE !    Podcasts by Series   Level One Book Study   Level Two Book Study     There is a new MAPS-CGS Cohort through Aquinas Institute in St Louis starting in January and applications are currently open to join! Carolyn...

“For the Lord gives wisdom;
 from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.” ~ Proverbs 2:6    “3. The atrium is a community in which children and adults live together a religious experience that facilitates participation in the wider community of the family, the church, and other social spheres. • The atrium is a place of prayer, in which work and study spontaneously become meditation, contempl...

"For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7    "We must remember that the phenomenon of internal discipline is something which. Must be achieved, not something pre-existent. Our function is that of guides upon the road of discipline.” - Maria Montessori, The Call of Education    Submit a Podcast Listener Question HERE !    Podcasts b...