Preliminary Confirmation Prep Plan for Paco

1. Study of the Saints
   • Joseph of Nazareth –
     read 5 pages daily and write in reflection journal
   • Read and narrate books on other chosen saints:
     • Mary: Mary, Mother of Jesus by Joslin, Mary by Brian Wildsmith, Mary: The Mother of Jesus by Tomie de Paola
     • St. Francis of Assisi: Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy, Francis: The Poor Man of Assisi, Clare and Francis, Francis and Clare: Saints of Assisi (Vision Book Series), Saint Francis by Brian Wildsmith,
     • St. Peter
     • St. Maximilian Kolbe (parish)
     • St. Paul (patron saint/namesake)
     • St. Francis Xavier (patron saint/namesake)
     • St. Dominic
     • St. Dominic Savio
     • St. John the Apostle
2. The Holy Spirit, Virtue and Habit Formation, Service
   • Prayers, English and Latin
   • Prayers to the Holy Spirit
   • Gifts of the Holy Spirit
   • Fruits of the Holy Spirit section
   • Following the Holy Spirit
   • Growing in the Virtues of Jesus
   • Making Choices: Practical Wisdom for Everyday Moral Decisions
   • shoot for Daily Mass, but at least Wednesdays and Sundays
   • Confession monthly
   • Eucharistic Adoration on Thursday evenings
   • Volunteer to help at Parish Festival, IHN, Soup kitchen, YFC, scouting
   • Tithing
   • Spiritual Reading: In Conversation with God: Meditations for Each Day of the Year and The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls Who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time
   • Altar Service
3. Scripture, Tradition, Catechism and Apologetics
   This list is currently overkill, so we’ll have to be picky about which sections to cover.
   • The Holy Bible
   • Fr. John Laux’ books, for discussion
   • St. Patrick’s Summer: A Children’s Adventure Catechism
   • Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church
   • My Path to Heaven: A Young Person’s Guide to the Faith
   • I Believe: The Nicene Creed
   • Remain in Me
   • Beginning Apologetics Series
   • Prove It! Series by Amy Welborn
   • Mere Christianity
   • An Illustrated Catechism
   • A Philadelphia Catholic in King James’s Court and A Philadelphia Catholic to King James’s Court: Discussion/Study Guide
   • Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions
   • Artwork: The Ten Commandments
4. Salvation History
   • Jeff Cavins’ Great Bible Adventure
   • Celebrating 2000 Years of Christian History
   • A Catechism of Church History
   • A Life of Our Lord for Children
5. The Sacraments
   • Art work on confirmation
   • Selections from Lapbooks for Catholics’ Sacraments
   • The Sacrament of Confirmation
6. The Holy Mass
   • The How-To Book of the Mass: Everything You Need to Know but No One Ever Taught You
   • Jesus: Our Eucharistic Love
7. Christian Literature
   • Rereading of The Chronicles of Narnia (Box Set), plus this study guide (pdf file)
   • The Lord of the Rings, plus discussion using these two articles
   • The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
   • The Screwtape Letters
8. Vocations/Theology of the Body
   • Selections from Theology of the Body for Teens
   • The Joyful Mysteries of Life
   • Completely Christ’s I and Completely Christ’s II

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Resources for Dad and Mom

Letters to a Young Catholic (Art of Mentoring)
Before I Go: Letters to Our Children About What Really Matters

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These books were either culled from suggestions at the 4Real Forum or were used during dd-18′s own confirmation preparation years.

The plan is to use this as the bulk of our curriculum for this coming year (we’ve already been working on a few of these this past year so some are just continuing), only adding Math (Saxon) and Science to the mix. I’m thinking we’ll have to pare down on a bunch of these still as it may be too much even for one year’s worth of coursework. I’ll update this with the final plan when we get back to the US and gather the rest of our resources.