Supplemental Resources 

F.I.R.E.—Liguori 

·        Designed for use with clustered families

·        Difficult to use with individual families in the home

·        Style is intergenerational

·        Engaging

·        Facilitator friendly

Well resourced

·        Stand alone program that is thematically designed—difficult to index to basal textbook series 

Generations of Faith 

·        Cultural diversity and timely in design

·        Broad use of media

·        Ideally used with clusters of families meeting once a month with material sent home for the other three weeks each month

·        Stand alone program

·        Liturgically based

Difficult to index to basal text book series

Kitchen Table Gospel—Benziger 

·        Indexed to many basal text book series

·        Reflects the vision of Church documents on family

·        Style is Liturgical Catechesis (life cycle set within liturgical cycle)

·        Broad based for resourcing all families in parish; parish groups

·        Adaptive—suitable for

Family gatherings at church

Individual families

Clusters of families

·        Facilitator friendly

Well organized

Well resourced

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