Professional Development Webinar Recordings

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A new study from Springtide Research points out that social distancing is heightening the feelings of isolation and loneliness in young people, even as they are participating in online Church services and engaging with more digital content than ever before. They’re consuming a lot, but processing very little.Join Catholic author and speaker Katie Prejean McGrady as she discusses how to help young people feel connected while accompanying them through abruptly ended school years, uncertain summer plans, and the worry and fear of these times.Prejean McGrady will share three things adults can do for teens and young people and explore strategies on how to stay mentally healthy and focused as ministers serving during this pandemic.

Luke the Evangelist was a brilliant storyteller who used two powerful rhetorical tools in his birth narrative: questions and poetry. In the first chapter of his gospel there are four moments where a question is asked by a character in the story, and those questions are designed subtly by Luke to reach off the pages, transcend the ages, and speak to the very heart of his reader/hearer. The four questions form the steps of a kind of a spiritual pilgrimage to the cradle, and walking those steps allows Advent to lead us to the heart of the Christmas season.The other rhetorical tool Luke uses adroitly is poetry: there are four poems, or poetic songs called canticles that Luke uses in his birth narrative, and each one functions in the manner of a song in a musical: at a poignant moment the action stops for reflection, to be sure the audience understands the moment.Timothy Clayton, author of the new book Exploring Advent with Luke, presents a webinar that brings Luke's two rhetorical tools clearly into view. Clayton will guide the participants' interaction with them in order to facilitate a spiritual pilgrimage to the heart of the season of Advent, resolving many of the issues that hinder the joy of Christmas.