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Nick Senger, founder and editor of Catholic School Chronicle, is an award-winning Catholic school teacher, vice principal and technology coordinator. He is a deacon for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane.
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To Serve Those in Need

Thomas Awiapo
Thomas Awiapo

The Pope has a humanitarian organization called the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, and it is working to rebuild its clinics and grammar schools that were destroyed by the recent violence in the Gaza strip area. If you or your students would like to help, visit the CNEWA website: http://www.cnewa.org/home-us.aspx

Also, Thomas Awiapo spoke to our students recently about the great work being done by Catholic Relief Services. Below, you will find an inspirational Catholic Relief Services video about Thomas’ life:

If you would like to know more about Catholic Relief Services, visit their web site: http://crs.org

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Prayers for the First Day of School

Blue Rosary

School begins today in many parts of the United States. May you all have a blessed and fruitful school year.

ChurchYear.net has a very nice page of prayers for teachers, students and schools, including the following prayer by David Bennett:

Father of all mercies
We ask that you would bless
the youngest and littlest of learners,
the most helpless and powerless of persons,
with Your infinite and loving mercy,
granting them the strength to learn, concentrate,
and act appropriately towards their teachers and fellow students.
We also ask that You would watch over them,
at home and at school
and grant them proper direction so that they may learn
of Your wonderful virtues.
We ask this in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen

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Lifeteen Catholic Movie Reviews – Essential Podcasts for Catholic Educators #2

Lifeteen movies200Anyone who teaches school knows that one way to connect with students is to talk movies with them. Lifeteen.com’s weekly Catholic Movie Reviews podcast is a great way to keep up with the latest screen triumphs and travesties. Host Greg Iwinski does an effective job of balancing cinematic critique with a Catholic moral and aesthetic perspective. His insights are pithy intelligent, and useful. Recent reviews include The Dark Knight, Hellboy II, Hancock, Wall-E, Get Smart, The Love Guru, and The Incredible Hulk.

At less than seven minutes an episode, this would be a great podcast to play to your students each week to jumpstart a discussion about living the Catholic lifestyle in today’s culture. I listen to it myself to help weed out the worthless from the worthwhile.

You can find the audio reviews at Lifeteen.com’s podcast page, or you can subscribe to Catholic Movie Reviews via iTunes (will open up iTunes on your computer).