Katie Prejean McGrady

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  1st Reconciliation And Beyond

  $14.95

  Tommy and Katie McGrady, hosts of Family Mass Prep on the Hallow app, offer a warm, relatable guide to walking with your child through First Reconciliation (and beyond!). Sharing their personal journey as they helped their daughter Rose prepare for her first confession, the McGradys offer stories of love, mistakes, healing, and the transformative power of forgiveness.

  In First Reconciliation and Beyond, the McGradys invite you to reflect on the Christian call to forgiveness, both within our families and in our hearts. Through real-life experiences and rich biblical insights, they explore the great parables of the gospels that illustrate Catholic beliefs about sin, forgiveness, and healing. With humor, wisdom, and compassion, they show you how to make this sacrament a meaningful and joyful experience for the whole family.

  The book is divided into five chapters, each offering practical steps to help you grow together as a family:

  1. Joining Our Stories to the Church’s Story: Discover how to cultivate forgiveness and reconciliation in your home through real-life stories from the McGradys.

  2. Learning from Scripture: Enjoy simple, parent-friendly reflections on the gospel stories and how they reveal God’s mercy.

  3. Thinking and Growing as Parents: Take time for your own spiritual reflection and growth.

  4. Growing Together as Adults and Children: Talk together about the lessons learned from the parables explored in step two and your own family stories.

  5. Praying as a Family: Close each chapter with a prayer, either one from the McGradys or one you create together.

  Preparing your child for First Reconciliation can feel like a daunting task, especially if you’re unfamiliar with the sacrament, haven’t been to confession in years, or aren’t Catholic. But this moment in your child’s faith journey offers a unique opportunity to rediscover the powerful practice of confession within the Sacrament of Reconciliation in your own life. It can help you let go of shame and guilt, experience God’s mercy in a new way, and confidently support and encourage your child in embracing this grace-filled practice for years to come.

  This book goes alongside the parish program your family is using and is well suited for use in parish groups or by individual families at home. It gives you the information, confidence, and extra courage you may need to accompany your child at this special time, including a short appendix with simple tools to help you and your c

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  Room 24 : Adventures Of A New Evangelist

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  Five years after she graduated from high school, teacher, youth minister, and sought-after speaker Katie Prejean McGrady returned to her alma mater in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to teach freshman theology in room 24. In the early years of her career, McGrady’s hormonal, sometimes grumpy, and often confused students taught her what it means to evangelize. Her frequently witty and always candid stories-and the ten lessons she offers-will inspire anyone who works with youth in the Church today.

  As she began her first year of teaching, Katie Prejean was eager to impart the Catholic doctrine she loves to her class in room 24 at St. Louis Catholic high school, but she was quickly rattled by the magnitude of the task, especially when she was challenged by a teen who said he didn’t believe. In ten brief and compelling chapters, Prejean shares humorous and hopeful interactions she’s had with her students that helped her learn that teaching them about Jesus and his Church is not as important as knowing them, loving them, and inviting them to know and love Jesus as a personal friend and savior.

  Her frequent mistakes and occasional successes with her students taught Prejean how to evangelize young people by building relationships in joyful, humble, and prayerful ways. Likewise, Prejean determined that the power of inviting conversation, welcoming questions, and witnessing to faith through personal stories engages students and helps them fall in love with Jesus.

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  Katie Prejean has spoken throughout the United States and in Canada to crowds from ten to ten thousand at venues such as the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress and the New Orleans World Youth Day.
  Prejean has been published in Project Youth Ministry and Catechetical Leader and has appeared on EWTN’s Life on the Rock and Bookmark.

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