Presented by Gregory Schutte, Director of Marriage Works! Ohio, Dayton, OH.

Presented by Dr. Andrew Sodergren, Founder of the Ruah Woods Institute, Cincinnati, OH.

Presented by Dr. Petroc Willey, Mary Ann Wiesinger-Puig, Dr. Bill Keimig of the Catechetical Institute, and John Beaulieu of the Conference Office of Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH.

Presented by Lori Smith, OCIA/RCIA Advisor for the Diocese of Sacramento, CI Mentor.

Presented by Dr. Petroc Willey, Director of the Catechetical Institute. God’s generosity and His Fatherly love is most fully manifest in His Son’s incarnation in ancient Israel and His continuing presence in the Blessed Sacrament upon every altar. Our lives flow from the Eucharist and lead back to the Eucharist, so that we may be filled with God’s life, sent into the world to proclaim the Good News, and be strengthened and invigorated for a life lived for others. Eucharistic revival flows from three ways of formation: 1) How to see God’s gift of the Eucharist, rooted in knowing Jesus personally and loving the sacred liturgy; 2) How to be formed for a Eucharistic life of intimate devotion and radical trust; 3) How to give the saving truths of the Eucharist to others effectively in the home, the classroom, and in any relationship. ..........Recommended Resources.......... Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, God is Near Us: The Eucharist, the Heart of Life (Ignatius Press, 2003).......... Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy (Ignatius Press, 2nd edition, 2014).......... Romano Guardini, Sacred Signs (Pro Decimo Press, 1956) – meditations on the liturgical gestures, helping us really enter into them.......... George Herbert, The Temple (Canon Press, 2020) (Herbert’s collected poetry, with poems such as the Altar, the Sacrifice, The Windows, the Church-Floore, Love, and so on).

Presented by Chad Judice of the Diocese of Lafayette, LA. The vision of St. John Paul II in inaugurating World Youth Day, developed into a decades-long challenge to the Church to call each generation of youth and young adults to the heights of sainthood. This apostolate to the future is at the heart of renewal. Any effort to evangelize and make disciples of young adults must start with a carefully-formed Catholic worldview and a genuine missionary mindset, with particular attention to sustained long-term growth in the spiritual life, not just short-term gains. This webinar will explore those challenges and how to move forward effectively.

Presented by Marcel LeJeune, Founder, and President of Catholic Missionary Disciples. The facts are clear – the Catholic Church in many countries is losing too many people. The Church needs to rediscover the model of ministry that Jesus handed on to the Church. This webinar will share a vision and approach for helping leaders to aim for changing the culture of their ministry toward the multiplication of missionary disciples. The reality is that there are no magic bullets or quick fixes. Jesus spent nearly every day of three years training twelve men in what it meant to be Catholic leaders, and they still misunderstood him, sinned, and fell short of his call. We do the same. Still, he left us not only with the content of his teaching, but the very model and mission we are to achieve – the universal call to “make disciples of all nations,” by helping others come into a life-changing encounter with Jesus, accompanying them, forming them, and sending them back into the world that needs Good News. Come explore ways forward to foster that goal.

Presented by Dino Durando and Marc Cardaronella of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Parish renewal can be sought in many ways, and within a larger diocesan initiative of this kind, individual parish communities need to find their own ways of moving in that direction effectively. The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph has discerned a pathway to renewal for its parishes, and is in this work for the long run, not following the illusion of quick solutions. They will discuss how they discerned their approach, the realities they’ve faced, and on what terms good progress becomes possible.

Presented by Mary Mosher, Master Catechist and Catechetical Institute Mentor. St. John Paul II tells us that, “Family catechesis . . . precedes, accompanies and enriches all other forms of catechesis” (Apostolic Exhortation “On Catechesis in Our Time,” Catechesi tradendae, CT, 68). These words challenge us to examine our thinking about how to pass on the Catholic faith within the parish or school we serve, and specifically to look at how to encourage the formation of the entire family. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church we read, “The family is the community in which, from childhood, one can learn moral values, begin to honor God, and make good use of freedom” (2207). This webinar will examine the primacy of the family in religious formation and the importance of assisting families in their own formation so that together the parish or school community and families can work to bring about the well-formed and beautiful soul of each member.

Presented by Katie Dawson (Diocese of Orange), Sean Martin (Diocese of Gary), and Ann Lankford (Diocese of La Crosse). A strong diocesan formation effort is not simply one geared to form individuals well in the faith, but one that seeks to foster intimate ties in Christ among the faithful, providing distinctively Catholic and ongoing encounters with Jesus through devotions, Confession, education, and fellowship, so participation in the Mass is experienced as it should be, as the summit of a wider movement towards the Lord.  This webinar will discuss ways to foster, at a diocesan level, creative catechetical formation that encourages this experience of the Lord in local communities of faith.