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Our Audio Catechism Story!
"These Audio Catechism (CDs and Downloads) and Copybooks are so great! How did you do them?" The answer? The grace of the duty of state. We made sure to teach the best Catholic answers to the Baltimore Catechism when we were teaching the First Communion and Confirmation basic Catholic beliefs to our own children. Our Catholic Audio Catechism story began thirteen years ago when our first child was to receive her First Communion we were told that the date would be in August. Then our pastor was relocated. The next pastor said that First Holy Communion would take place in September or October. So we continued to review the Baltimore Catechism questions and answers. Then November, December.... Yes, you might have guessed it, the date was finally Mother's Day! We didn't guess it, yet at about November we told our daughter that once she could pronounce and remember her catechism answers well enough, we would put the questions and answers on a cassette that she could keep and review at will even while she played with her sister and brother, colored or worked on crafts. Voila! Audio catechism.
Please Contact Us about Ads contrary to Catechist!That same season we were asked to teach the First Communion catechism for our very small mission chapel. It seemed like it would be easy enough. Wasn't it for very small children? Yes. The responsiblity made it seem more important, though, to be sure that our own children could answer well. By taking the responsibility to our now increased duty of state seriously we started to notice that there were different versions to the Catholic answers in different Baltimore Catechism booklets!New Set Of Answers!Then we moved we had another set of questions to answer from an excellent First Communion book called Jesus Comes. A good many of these answers were the same, yet there were some excellent additions. Wow! Time to do another cassette. We had even less time available at that time because two of our children were learning further different answers to the same questions! Why? Simply two different catechisms were being used in the same school. No time to look into it, and baby number five was on her way. We just chose the best answers where there was a discrepancy.
Many years later even those questions were changed and our audio catechism story grows!
Finding the best version and getting the answers recorded became a priority since we now had eight children and did not have time to teach different versions nor did we want to teach lesser answers to the children since we were going to all the effort to memorize anyway. The priests and sisters always answered the parents that the old answers were just fine. We noticed that they were more than just fine. Each of these different versions had its own Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat! Certainly the principles of non-contradiction and choosing the better choice applied, right? Good enough. We had our task cut out for us, especially to record the answers in a six-year-old user friendly format!
Audio Catechism CDs!Audio CDs were the answer. No more rewinding an endless (treasured) cassette (we had filled the tape with answers on both sides so that review was easier). Track numbers could now match the question numbers of the booklet that could be included on the same enhanced CD!!! The answers had to be the best Catholic answers.Then we began giving the Catechism CDs to our Godchildren, neices and nephews, friends and acquaintances. Soon people began asking for them. We saw that this was the beginning of a true apostolate, yet could not afford to continue handing out the Audio CDs for free. Answer? Professionally produced Catholic Audio CDs with the fully reproducible text of the words right on the same enhanced CD! Each track matches the question number. Now as our littlest ones are growing older we have produced matching Catecism Copybooks to match the CDs. These have been a God-send. There is just so much that could be said! We did the same for the Catholic Confirmation questions and answers and simply used the questions from several "Baltimore Catechisms", each approved by the Catholic Church, and we only used the answers that did not conflict with others or cause doubt. Website!We started building our Catholic business in 2007 after years of working to perfect our favorite products. We worked hard to develop unique Catholic audio books and Catholic ebooks, to publish them in a professional format, and to present them to many major Catholic book publishing companies and Catholic book sellers. Priests, catechists, parents, students and converts have written to thank us for our apostolate; but guess what? We had no venue to reach the larger market for Catholic audio book CDs or Catholic Ebooks!Then my sister said, "You need a website." She and her husband had already set up their succesful website and knew what we needed to sell our product and build the base for a larger Catholic business. So, after two years working the usual venues for a Catholic business we used her good advice and began to build this website using SiteSell.com, and its Internet business building program entitled, SiteBuildIt in December of 2008. At the beginning I had not known much more than how to use email! I did not trust "drag and click"! Now several of us in our family who know how to build our own successful websites! And we're doing it!
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