Reaching the Hearts of Teenagers: A Guide to Confirmation ( with Colin MacIver)
Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Navigating Confirmation preparation with teenagers in today’s times is not easy. Today, Colin MacIver and I discuss his newest book ,The Catechists Field Guide to Confirmation, how to reach the hearts of teenagers, and how to implement practical tools to create the best confirmation experience for candidates.
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The main goal of Confirmation is not to check off a box in Sacramental preparation, it’s to reach the hearts of candidates and form them into lifelong disciples of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the simplest thing in the world, but I'll just say to parents, turn to your son, to your daughter, and talk to them about shall bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization. |
| 0:32.0 | I am not joined my regular co-host, Dave Van Vickle. |
| 0:36.0 | Dave the party Van Vickle. |
| 0:37.2 | I am instead joined by |
| 0:38.6 | Staff writer at Ascension Press. Staff writer. Is that the title? Staff writer? Does I, did I get |
| 0:43.8 | that's what they call me? There you go. Callum McIver, who wrote a wonderful new Catechus Field Guide |
| 0:49.1 | to Confirmation. This is so important for us right now, training your good folks on how to be excellent teachers. |
| 0:57.2 | So this book is out there. I just took over, Colin, I just took over youth ministry at my parish. |
| 1:04.8 | And so when they said, do you want to interview Colin about his new book? I said, absolutely, can I have a sample? |
| 1:13.5 | Because I need to steal everything right now. So how are you? Let's first, let's, I haven't seen you in, |
| 1:20.2 | what, about two years maybe? You're at the National Catholic Bible Congress down here in Houston. |
| 1:26.1 | That's right. Yeah, I was down in Houston for that a couple years back. |
| 1:30.0 | I think we did a webinar like over the summer though. |
| 1:33.4 | Oh, we did the webinar. I forgot about that. Yeah, that was fun. |
| 1:36.5 | That was fun. |
| 1:36.8 | Digitally saw each other. |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah, yeah, that's true. So what do you up to right now? What do you, what are you doing? How's life? We were at Franciscan together a little bit. |
| 1:44.8 | We didn't, we didn't hang out all that much because you were in a weird household. |
| 1:48.1 | I mean. |
| 1:50.8 | But what are you up to? |
| 1:51.9 | Yeah, I was only there for actually nine months. |
| 1:54.2 | So, well, let's see, right now I, yeah, yeah, I transferred in as a senior. So I was there from, you know, just like a September to a May. |
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