Catholic Classroom Resources

	Jesus Christ: God's Revelation to the World (Student Text) [Second Edition] Framework Course I Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 432 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-621-8 This thoroughly revised and enhanced edition of Jesus Christ: God’s Revelation to the World introduces the story of salvation as it unfolds in both the Old Testament and New Testament. The text provides a thorough plan for reading and studying the Bible and gives students a general knowledge and appreciation of Sacred Scripture through which they encounter Jesus Christ.
	Jesus Christ: His Mission and Ministry (Student Text) [Second Edition] Framework Course II Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 360 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-624-9 Who is Jesus Christ? Deeply considering that question and its answer are at the core of Jesus Christ: His Mission and Ministry, now in its second edition and part of the Encountering Jesus textbook series.
	Jesus Christ: Source of Our Salvation (Student Text) [Second Edition] Framework Course III Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 400 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-627-0 Jesus Christ: Source of Our Salvation (Second Edition) introduces students to a deeper theological study of essential life questions, foremost: "Why do we need to be saved?" and "How are we saved?" The answers are revealed in God's plan for Redemption.
	Jesus and the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic (Student Text) Framework Course IV Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-212-8 Students deepen their understanding of Jesus Christ, the fullness of God’s Revelation, as they encounter him in the living Body of Christ, the Catholic Church.
	Meeting Jesus in the Sacraments (Student Text) [Second Edition] Framework Course V Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 360 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-733-8 Meeting Jesus in the Sacraments (Second Edition) helps students recognize the living presence of God's Incarnate Son in the Seven Sacraments, especially in the Eucharist. Organized around three dimensions of the sacraments -- Understanding, Celebrating, and Grace -- the text unpacks the origins, rites, and effects of the Seven Sacraments in a spiral design that follows a common structure from chapter to chapter.
	Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality (Student Text) [Third Edition] Framework Course VI Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 408 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-736-9 Your Life in Christ: Foundations in Catholic Morality introduces students to a traditional understanding of morality, encouraging them to undergo a deep and regular examination of conscience while making daily decisions to live a moral life.
	Foundations of Catholic Social Teaching: Living as a Disciple of Christ (Student Text) Framework Elective C Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-467-2 “No one lives alone. No one sins alone. No one is saved alone,” wrote Pope Benedict XVI, whose words resonate with today’s teens, particularly because the prevalence of social media allows them to better see how their lives are interwoven with those around them.
	Jesus Christ: God's Revelation to the World (Student Text) Framework Course I Author: Michael Pennock Price: $26.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-184-8 Jesus Christ: God's Revelation to the World provides a map for high school students to navigate the salvific work of God—Father, Son, and Spirit—in forming a People, giving a Law, and preparing for the Messiah. The one-semester course gives students a general knowledge and appreciation of Sacred Scripture through which they encounter Jesus Christ.
	Jesus Christ: His Mission and Ministry (Student Text) Framework Course II Author: Michael Pennock Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-186-2 Jesus Christ: His Mission and Ministry deepens the study of Jesus, highlighting key events in his earthly ministry while unpacking his teachings about God the Father, the Trinity, Mary, and the Holy Spirit. Students learn that the goal of discipleship is a life of grace and holiness and a share of God's everlasting Kingdom. Jesus Christ: His Mission and Ministry encourages a course of action and calls on teens to "pick up their cross" and follow the Lord in this life and beyond by introducing key vocabulary terms, exploring relevant questions of faith, profiling famous Christian disciples, and offering several applications to put the lessons into action. The text follows Course II of the new curriculum framework. It is also applicable for a Christology course apart from the framework sequence.
	Jesus Christ: Source of Our Salvation (Student Text) Framework Course III Author: Michael Pennock Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-188-6 The Paschal Mystery of Christ's Cross and Resurrection is the pinnacle of God's redemptive plan for his people. In Jesus Christ: Source of Our Salvation, students delve deeply into the saving actions of the Lord. This text unpacks the meaning of God's sacred and mysterious plan from creation, onward to the consequences of the fall and the promise of a Savior, while ultimately focusing on the Life, Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
	Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality (Student Text) Framework Course VI Author: Michael Pennock Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-123-7 Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality focuses on the essential message of Christ's moral teaching, the importance of love of God and neighbor. The text covers the major points from the "Life in Christ" section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, pulling together these elements by developing nine essential steps for living a Christian moral life in the Catholic tradition.
	Sacred Scripture: A Catholic Study of God's Word (Student Text) Framework Elective A Author: Daniel Smith-Christopher Author: Rev. J. Patrick Mullen Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-171-8 Sacred Scripture: A Catholic Study of God’s Word presents the Bible to students as a living source of God’s Revelation to us. It gathers the two covenants of Scripture and the seventy-two books of the Bible under the umbrella of Church teaching, which holds that in Sacred Scripture, “God speaks only one single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely” (CCC, 102).
	Meeting Jesus in the Sacraments (Student Text) Framework Course V Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-143-5 Meeting Jesus in the Sacraments reveals the sacraments as the definitive way that Jesus remains present to the Church and the world today. The text explores concrete ways for students to understand the sacraments, participate in their rites, and benefit from their graces.
	This Is Our Church: A History of Catholicism (Student Text) Framework Elective B Author: Michael Pennock Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Length: 384 pages, with an 8-page 4-color photo insert Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-169-5 This Is Our Church: A History of Catholicism is a comprehensive, readable, and faith-filled portrait of two thousand years of Catholic history that highlights important events, people, trends, and teachings. Complete with photos, charts, and chronologies, This Is Our Church is a rich resource for high school students interested in a study of each major period in the life of the Church.
	Marriage and Holy Orders: Your Call to Love and Serve (Student Text) Framework Elective D Author: Michael Amodei Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-041-4 Marriage and Holy Orders: Your Call to Love and Serve focuses on adult vocations in the two sacraments at the service of communion: marriage and priesthood. The discernment of these vocations involves preparation through living a chaste single life, which is also essential to living the permanent single vocation. For both women and men, lay and ordained, careful deliberation must also be given to the various callings of the consecrated life. Each chapter provides a thorough presentation of these permanent vocations.
	Exploring the Religions of Our World (Student Text) Framework Elective E Author: Nancy Clemmons, S.N.J.M. Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 416 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-125-1 Exploring the Religions of Our World allows students to build on their understanding and experience of the Catholic Christian faith by studying different religious traditions. The text begins with a study of Judeo-Christian history, practice, and tradition before expanding to the study of other less familiar religions including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shintoism. The text moves on to uncover a variety of religious traditions that sprang from America's Protestant roots including Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Church of Christ, Scientist.
	Encountering Jesus in the New Testament (Student Text) Revised Edition Author: Michael Pennock Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 336 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-165-7 Encountering Jesus in the New Testament is an excellent introduction to the New Testament. It is an ideal textbook for Catholic high school students taking a scripture survey course.
	The Old Testament (Student Text) Our Call to Faith and Justice Author: Daniel Smith-Christopher Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-301-9 The revised edition of The Old Testament: Our Call to Faith and Justice covers the remarkable journey of God’s Chosen People and their journey in Scripture. As with any relationship, the divine-human one described in the Old Testament has dramatic episodes of jealousy and angry disappointment, but also shows moments of moving love, compassion, and forgiveness. The Jewish people forged an intimate relationship with God that was brought to fullness in the coming of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. This text also includes a Catholic Handbook for Faith, an appendix section with a wealth of information to help students review material they have covered in other religion courses.
	Our Catholic Faith (Student Text) Living What We Believe Author: Michael Pennock Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-266-1 Our Catholic Faith: Living What We Believe offers a general overview of the Catholic faith as outlined by the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and is designed for use in an introductory Catholic high school theology course. Because students enter Catholic high school with diverse catechetical instruction and formation experiences, a primary objective of this text is to get students up to speed early in their high school careers. Students are challenged to accept Jesus, commit themselves to him through the Church, and to live lives of loving service.
	Catholic Essentials (Student Text) An Overview of the Faith Author: Michael Amodei Price: $20.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 384 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-145-9 The FIRST Handbook of Faith written to the U.S. Bishops Curriculum Framework! Catholic Essentials: An Overview of the Faith is a handbook of information, prayer, and practice about Jesus, the Holy Trinity, the Catholic Church, the Sacraments, and ways those who believe in Jesus live out their faith. Organized around the US Bishops' high school curriculum framework, this book is an essential resource to accompany a full study of the Catholic faith.
	The Church Our Story (Student Text) Catholic Tradition, Mission, and Practice Author: Patricia Morrison Driedger Foreword by: Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 336 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-057-5 The Church Our Story: Catholic Tradition, Mission, and Practice provides students with a means for understanding some of the traditional definitions of the Catholic Church. While acknowledging the importance of the historical perspective, this course emphasizes the living Church that makes Christ present to the world today. The course is constructed around key definitions that help students to formulate an understanding of ecclesiology, such as the People of God, the Church as Servant, and the Church as Sacrament. Each definition has a historical component that traces its meaning through major periods of Church history, helping students understand how the Church reflects the light of Christ today.
	Catholic Social Teaching: Learning and Living Justice (Student Text) Framework Elective C Author: Michael Pennock Price: $26.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-102-2 Catholic Social Teaching: Living and Learning Justice introduces the Church's rich body of social teaching that comes to us from the essential writings of the popes, highlighting the works from Pope Leo XIII onward. While exploring how societies work, an overarching theme of the text is a discussion of the foundational values that ought to govern a just society.
	Our Catholic Faith (First Edition) Living What We Believe Author: Michael Pennock Price: $24.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-022-3 Our Catholic Faith: Living What We Believe, written as an introduction to Catholicism, provides an overview of the faith using basic principles and teachings contained in the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It offers an in-depth resource for building religious literacy and provides a synthesis of the Catholic faith as outlined in the Catechism. The text challenges students to accept Jesus, commit themselves to him through the Church, and to live lives of loving service.
	The Catholic Spirit An Anthology for Discovering Faith Through Literature, Art, Film, and Music Author: Michel Bettigole, O.S.F. Author: James D. Childs Price: $27.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 472 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-182-4 Pope John Paul II pointed out that it is through the arts that religious truths are made tangible "making perceptible...the world of the spirit, of the invisible, of God." The Catholic Spirit: An Anthology for Discovering Faith Through Literature, Art, Film, and Music takes up this charge and presents the truths of Catholicism in the context of the arts: great artwork, literature, music, and Church writings. The Catholic Spirit sends teens on a journey through classical works like Flannery O'Connors "Parker's Back, Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur," Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, and Gregorian chant, along with modern classics like "A Woman's Prayer" by Dorothy Day and films like Cool Hand Luke and On the Waterfront.
	Our Sacramental Life (Student Text) Living and Worshiping in Christ Author: Patricia Morrison Driedger Price: $24.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 256 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-0-87793-719-7 Our Sacramental Life has been found in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church instructs: Liturgical catechesis aims to initiate people into the mystery of Christ ("It is mystagogy") by proceeding from the visible to the invisible, from the sign to the thing signified, from the "sacraments" to the "mysteries."
	Encountering Jesus in the New Testament (Student Text) Author: Michael Pennock Price: $22.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Textbook Pages: 320 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-0-87793-944-3 Encountering Jesus in the New Testament (2003) by Michael Pennock provides high school students with an in depth introduction to the New Testament. This book is not available from Ave Maria Press. Individuals can purchase it from the following online retailers, while bookstores can order it from Ingram.
	The Old Testament (First Edition) Our Call to Faith and Justice Author: Daniel Smith-Christopher Price: $24.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches ISBN: 978-0-87793-721-0 The Old Testament: Our Call to Faith and Justice offers high school students a comprehensive overview of the major themes, lessons, and people of the Old Testament. It covers the story of salvation from many perspectives including both the Catholic understanding of the scripture and how the original hearers of God's Word understood its meaning.
	Monseñor The Last Journey of Óscar Romero Director: Ana Carrigan Director: Juliet Weber Producer: Kellogg Institute for International Studies Price: $27.95 Format: DVD Length: 88 minutes Item number: 720229915014 Monseñor: The Last Journey of Óscar Romero is an 88-minute film that tells the story of the growing repression of the poor in El Salvador in the late 1970s. It is interwoven with the story of Archbishop Óscar Romero, or Monseñor as he was commonly known, and recounts the short time between his installation as archbishop of San Salvador in 1977 and his assassination on March 24, 1980.