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Phillip posted this elsewhere and I was going to continue with more but decided to split off to a new thread so we can add more on this specifically. I am always interested in discovering new materials and being reminded of ones that have become lost in my piles of books etc. 
So Phillip wrote:
Iāve mentioned in other posts here recently that from their childrenās section Domestic Church Resources I often refer to their The Twelve Great Feasts: Part 1 The Handbook. for adult catechetical sessions in my Latin parish around those feast days.
From St. Joseph School for Boys Bookstore also intended for children, I use āIcon Flashcardsā. I donāt own holy icons for all of the 12 feast days so these are handy to bring to sessions for the display area and also each card talks about the icon and the feast.
At a recent church festival I picked up The Nicene Creed for Young People by Anthony M. Coniaris from Light & Life Press. Each of the 85 pages reflects on one or a few words of the Creed. This book for me is more like a way to simply walk through the Creed reflecting on words we may have become so rote in reciting, and so be brought to a deeper hearing, praying. He provides at the end a handful of ādiscussion startersā questions for each āchapterā and for the introduction, all of which are appropriate to ask in an adult catechetical session. (I love the CCC and use it all the time, but it was in fact written originally as a resource for our bishops and while I want every Catholic to know about it, it is definitely written from the Latin mind, and beautifully so, and at a level which is often above basic introductory catechetical sessions.)
Both the priest in my ECC and the Orthodox parish I also attend talk about the Liturgy as* the *catechesis and Iām 100% with that. I love using parts of the liturgy whenever possible. I am only teaching in a Latin parish RCIA so I use short chunks now and then when something in our hymns has such imagery of something that is being discussed. In the Latin Church RCIA the gospel reading from the past Sunday is the starting point. In The Winter Pascha a large section of each chapter Fr. Hopko quotes parts of the festal liturgy which is just what I like.
So Phillip wrote:
I was going to make these same suggestions youāve made, Phillip, no surprise there.Constantine,
Check out ecpubs.com. There youāll find all the catechetical resources I mentioned, plus some others. Youāll also find the wonderful books by Archbishop Joseph Raya (not his translation work, but his catechetical/pastoral work), some stuff by Fr. Robert Taft, and a good deal of other things. Also, if youāre looking for some other great catechetical material check out oltv.tv. We have an āAdult Enrichmentā program which contains numerous series on many topics. One of my personal favorites is āGreat Feasts of the Churchā by Prof. Richard Schneider from St. Vladimirās Orthodox Theological Seminary.(I may have also had a large hand in producing that series
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Iāve mentioned in other posts here recently that from their childrenās section Domestic Church Resources I often refer to their The Twelve Great Feasts: Part 1 The Handbook. for adult catechetical sessions in my Latin parish around those feast days.From St. Joseph School for Boys Bookstore also intended for children, I use āIcon Flashcardsā. I donāt own holy icons for all of the 12 feast days so these are handy to bring to sessions for the display area and also each card talks about the icon and the feast.
At a recent church festival I picked up The Nicene Creed for Young People by Anthony M. Coniaris from Light & Life Press. Each of the 85 pages reflects on one or a few words of the Creed. This book for me is more like a way to simply walk through the Creed reflecting on words we may have become so rote in reciting, and so be brought to a deeper hearing, praying. He provides at the end a handful of ādiscussion startersā questions for each āchapterā and for the introduction, all of which are appropriate to ask in an adult catechetical session. (I love the CCC and use it all the time, but it was in fact written originally as a resource for our bishops and while I want every Catholic to know about it, it is definitely written from the Latin mind, and beautifully so, and at a level which is often above basic introductory catechetical sessions.)
Both the priest in my ECC and the Orthodox parish I also attend talk about the Liturgy as* the *catechesis and Iām 100% with that. I love using parts of the liturgy whenever possible. I am only teaching in a Latin parish RCIA so I use short chunks now and then when something in our hymns has such imagery of something that is being discussed. In the Latin Church RCIA the gospel reading from the past Sunday is the starting point. In The Winter Pascha a large section of each chapter Fr. Hopko quotes parts of the festal liturgy which is just what I like.
Have you connected yet with a spiritual father, or mother? What is his thinking about this idea that you " teach the Byzantine Rite" to RC youth?