Eastern Catholic catechism books for at home use?

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Hi, 🙂

I hope this is the right area to post this question.

I’m looking for a source of Eastern Catholic, specifically Byzantine Catholic catechism books for my daughters, ages 5 & 3.5, to be used at home. My older daughter is in the Kindergarten class at our parish, and sadly, we just pulled our younger daughter from the nursery class, so my husband and I are looking to supplement their religious education at home. Everything I find online seems to be Roman Catholic based, which I would prefer not to teach them. FWIW, I’m a convert to the RC church, but my children are being raised BC because my husband is BC. 🙂

Thanks in advance!
 
There is a Byzantine catholic catechism called “Light for Life”,
It’s in three separate books. The first book is called “The Mystery Believed”, the second is “The Mystery Celebrated”, the third is “the Mystery Lived”. I’ve looked through some of it, it should be pretty easy for you and/or your kids to understand. They can be found at this link:

theobooks.org/category.cfm?subcategory_id=37

or at another website or bookstore you can find them at.

I hope this helps.
 
Let me get back to you soon. I know that we use some specific Eastern Catholic books for Catechesis in the Melkite Church.
 
Try the Byzantine Seminary Press. There are a few items listed, but nothing specifically like a catechetism AFAIK. The adult catechetical books Light for Life (mentioned above) are pretty good, especially for you and DH, not designed for children under ten.

Any materials from the Ukrainian Catholics, Ruthenian Catholics or Melkite Catholics should work. But you might have to obtain Orthodox material for young children, because Byzantine Catholicism is a small movement in the English speaking world, the materials are not as abundant as one might wish.
 
Light and Life Publishing

I believe that many Eastern Catholics use Orthodox material.

Send away for a Light and Life catalogue. This is the biggest book company in English for such things.

I see that it has hundreds of books for children -24 pages in the catalogue. Most are from Orthodox sources but some are also Eastern Catholic.

Their web address is

light-n-life.com/

But I’d certainly urge you to get their actual paper catalogue. The 2007 edition has 220 pages all crammed with good books and other items.
 
Wow, thank you for those links! I ordered a catalog from the Light and Life website already! I also see some interesting coloring books on the Byzantine Seminary Press site.

🙂
 
Theological book service also has things geared specifically for children, sorry I didn’t notice this earlier:

theobooks.org/category.cfm?subcategory_id=56

As has been said, a good alternative would be to go for Orthodox catechetical books (at least for an early age), since it’s almost identical.
 
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