(Quick update to remind the catechists: This is a blog for adults, not kids. Patheos is not a site for children. If you want to share this particular post with your class, just print it out and read aloud. For goodness sake don’t send a twelve-year-old here. But grown-up to grown-up? Share away.)
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My son and I were talking about click-bait. If only the Catholic faith were presented more like internet news. We brainstormed a few possibilities, as gleaned from his confirmation class:
- Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit You Need to Know About Now – #6 is Going to Shock You
- Get Rid of All Your Sins Using this One Weird Trick
- The Health Secret Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About
- Check Out The Miracle Treatment Everyone in Capernaum is Talking About
- Feeling Lonely? Forget Casual Dating, and Try This Instead
- 30 Teenagers Went into a Church, and You’ll Never Believe What the Bishop Did Next
Ascension Press? YDisciple? Are you listening? Yeah, I didn’t think so either.
Artwork: Check Out This Amazing Oil Painting from 17th Century England – You’ll Never Believe What it Was Painted On. (Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia.)
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