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Catholic catechism class gets easier with an audio Baltimore Catechism and Catholic worksheets for First Holy Communion and preparation for Confirmation. Memorizing the basic Catholic answers are most of the hard part of learning. Teaching is easier when you have good books, Catholic worksheets, and coloring pages to print. If you have an Amazon Kindle reader, you can upload a whole library of Roman Catholic books.

The Baltimore Catechism has been the foundation for catechism class for over one hundred years. When we started to recover from the revolution of the sixties, which catechism did we trust? The Baltimore Catechism had the Catholic answers that we recognized from our parents' time. Since there are very many versions of the Baltimore Catechism there are some differences amongst them. We only recommend the best that we have found in twenty years as parents of school children, as parish catechists, and in using Catholic homeschool curriculum. Almost all of the Catholic home school programs offer some form of the Baltimore Catechism.

We've had some students who could memorize the answers, the Ten Commandments, and the Catholic prayers for children with almost no effort. The prayers of the Rosary are easy for children whose families say the daily rosary. Do be sure to teach how to pray the Rosary. Praying is vital to receiving the sacraments well. Otherwise, the main points necessary to learn are simple. Be sure not to make catechism class an onerous effort. Keep it simple and happy. Fr. Leo Pyzalski said in his School Sisters' Vade Mecum that it may seem that the class busy with activities is better but in the end the plain humble conveyance of truth wins the children's hearts. If you must fill required class time though you'll be grateful for some of the Catholic Coloring Pages and Catholic Worksheets we offer on this site.

We've recorded the questions and their answers as well as the Roman Catholic prayers on a track by track audio recording and added the verbatim text to the same CD or Download. Since we had the text available, all we had to do was change the font and rearrange things to make Catholic worksheets for the same information. We've heard from teachers, catechists, parents and students who appreciate St. Anne's Helper's excellent Catholic catechism help for both First Holy Communion and Confirmation students. Why? Memorizing becomes easy with multisensory teaching using an audio book download for First Holy Communion and Confirmation worksheets that also make great handwriting practice and homeschool worksheets! Catechists can send their students home with audio help. Check the sound of these Catholic audio book downloads. Catholic Printable Worksheets are handy to use in class or to send home for catechism reinforcement.

St. Anne's Helper Catechism Copybooks teach the Baltimore Catechism version of the answers about the Catholic sacraments . The concise Catholic answers to the Baltimore Catechism questions that concur with the basic Catholic beliefs taught in any Catechism Course (CCD) are easier to learn because they are concise and precise.

The Baltimore Catechism for children teaches the basics for the adult Baltimore Catechism versions so that converts will appreciate the ease of learning with an audio CD (or Download) while driving or during light chores. The copybook method of explicit instruction aids penmanship practice as well as memorization!

We have found several books and other media that have made teaching our students their Catholic catechism concise and rewarding.

It becomes so simple to teach Catholic beliefs when we realize that all good catechisms cover the same general outline:

The Apostles' Creed (Twelve Articles)

The Catholic Sacraments (Seven)

The Catholic Ten Commandments (The Protestant one is different!)

The Six Precepts of the Church (Catholic Holy Days of Obligation, etc.)

Prayer, Virtues, Works of Mercy (Seven Spiritual, Seven Corporal)

How do we know God's will for us? Simply obey and practice every step of the Catechism and do what our superior or honorable third parties suggest.

That's it! Certitude!

Good Catholic books with interesting pictures captivate young students and give the rest of us a few ideas, too. We have found several that can stand as memory aids as well as great story boosters that would work well in Catholic religious education class, CCD, and homeschool for children or adults.

It was so helpful to be able to flip through the pictures of picture Bible books and the Jesus Comes, First Communion Catechism to help the children remember who Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Daniel were. The New Testament people like Mary, Jesus, and the apostles became friends the children could remember since we had used the books like a photo album.

Another help was to use a whiteboard for dictation or copywork.

Catholic Catechism Multi-Sensory Aids!

The real nitty-gritty was memorizing the answers to the questions. Once we found the best Catholic answers we still had to convey them to the student.

What catechism help was available for a child who can't sit still? Or the child who can't yet write well? Or adults who need a quick way to learn the Ten Commandments and the Apostles' Creed?

Learning the Catholic catechism as an adult for Baptism, First Holy Communion, and Confirmation is easier with Catholic audio books.

What about reviewing the questions for a cumulative review at the end of the year by the pastor?

What would be best for an RCIA program or Catholic CCD class?

Most importantly, where would we find low pressure aids to learning truth well?

St. Anne's Helper Catholic Ebooks

St. Anne's Helper's Audio book Catechisms are our answer to the above questions for both First Communion and Catholic Confirmation. The Catholic answers and the Roman Catholic prayers are arranged with each question and its answer on its own track for easy navigation. Need to memorize the Apostles' Creed or the Ten Commandments? Easy. Just go to the specific track and press "repeat one"! Do you want a self correcting quiz? Easy. Just press "pause" between the question and the answer!

The text of both the questions and their answers is included as a text file on the same CD or Download as the audio file! There's no need to buy another booklet. Better! This one is reprintable for as many copies as you need!

Catholic Printable Worksheets

The text of both the First Communion and the Catholic Confirmation Catechisms are also available as Catechism Copybook Ebooks as well. They are downloadable too. You can reprint them as many times as you need. The First Communion Catechism Copybook is available in beautiful Manuscript. The Confirmation Catechism Copybook is available on either beautiful Manuscript or beautiful Cursive writing worksheets - your choice! They can be spiral bound at an office supply store, printed on 3-holed paper to keep in a binder (our favorite way), or used as printable worksheets. See these free cursive writing worksheets.

What about learning the truth?

A real bug-a-boo arises when one sacrament's questions do not have the same answers to the very same questions! Adding and expanding the meaning is to be expected from the higher level catechisms, but changing the meaning is unfair, confusing, and sometimes gives reason for doubting the Catholic beliefs.

One thing that astonished us is that copyright law does not require new copyright information for minor revisions or omissions. The Imprimatur and Nihil obstat can't be depended upon either (Bl. Pope Pius IX Pascendi #60). Neither guarantees that what one thinks is an old Catholic catechism has been republished without change. It is not required that revisions are noted.

What does this mean?

Important truths can be altered at will without informing the reader or customer!

The Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat are not the safety that we would like them to be. At best they only state that there is nothing against the faith in the book. At worst, they make this same statement when it is not true.

At least in the past the books that have revisions that can be trusted are the books that mark the major revisions so that one can find them and compare.

Our recommendations for books and other media are based on twenty years of teaching the Catholic Catechism for the sacraments of Baptism, First Holy Communion and Confirmation. Along the way the other sacraments are studied, but not as "preparation" for their reception. We're recommending the best that we can find so that you don't have to search as much as we did.

Catholic religious education has its joys. Finding good resources to teach the Catholic catechism comes first! Our favorite resources after solidly Catholic books are CDs and copybooks! They have helped our wiggly worms as well as our easy learners who could memorize an answer just by hearing it in the background (ambient learning). Also, the audio CDs can be carried anywhere.

Catechism Copybooks have been an easy way to hand a constructive assignment to a child who needed something to do while teacher was too busy to explain the directions in a workbook. They can be bound or left as copywork sheets. As an added bonus, the copybooks were an easy way to help penmanship practice!

Dictation Using A White Board!

An 8' x 4' white board is usually less than $20 if you get melamine coated masonite! Frame yours, if you like with, inexpensive mold-board.

This way the teacher can teach from dictation with some copy help for younger students. With the dictation approach the teacher does not write the word first unless the student has trouble with a new word. The teacher reminds the student of a particular phonics rule or then models how a big word is spelled. This takes longer, but rewards the student with life-long spelling skills and they learn so much more if you're also teaching the facts of the catechism and the stories of the Catholic Bible at the same time. We like to combine subjects. The Catholic home school programs have great ideas here. Read Laura Berquist's ideas about using real books in her Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum.

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St. Anne's Helper recommendations for learning the Baltimore Catholic Catechism with an audio book download, using Catholic ebooks that can be read on an Amazon Kindle reader or other ereaders, reading about Roman Catholic saints, and learning the Roman Catholic prayers are made with the hope that God will grant us many Catholic saints and that many will learn the Roman Catholic Prayers and sweet Catholic prayers for children! Please remember to pray for all of us and share with family and friends. You and yours are included in our daily Rosary.

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