Infographic style posters free to use for your classroom or family on what it means to pray, fast and give alms for Lent. Each poster contains a section on how to live it out!

Resources are available through CRS Rice Bowl to share the journey with members of our human family around the world and commit our Lenten prayers, fasting, and almsgiving to deepening our faith and serving those in need.

Jeffrey Essmann, a catechist in the Archdiocese of New York, reflects upon his journey from teaching about the Eucharist into a deeper experience of the mystery of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ.

The 3D Catholic app invites you to join others in your immediate area in practicing 3 Catholic devotions for 30 days. Each of the devotions is focused on the Incarnation of Jesus Christ and provides the grace to live according to it. The devotions are the Angelus, meatless Fridays and the Works of Mercy.

Catechists and catechetical leaders can study the Catechism of the Catholic Church by joining a daily email that gives you a reading each day. Join a group who are reading each day. A good New Year's resolution for 2018!

Use this Saint Generator to pick a saint to be your prayer companion for 2018. Or use it to choose a saint at random for a cause or time period, or simply to get to know new saints. Catechists can use it with a class!

Accompaniment is our model for ministry with youth and their families. God began the conversation with young people; our job is to pay attention to what God is doing in their lives, walk with them as they grow in discipleship, and help them discern their response to God’s plan for their life. The workshop is guided by the 2018 Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment. Offered in various locales.

We know the current pope traces his authority all the way back to the first pope (St. Peter). But do you know much about all the popes in between? Join us (and thousands of friends) on a journey from St. Peter all the way to Pope Francis. Each weekday morning, we'll send you a short, engaging 2-minute something about one pope. By the end of the year, you'll know something about every single pope!

It is the 25th Anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. A time to become acquainted/ reacquainted with this comprehensive resource for catechetical leaders and catechists.

The Church continues to affirm the dignity of every human being, and to grow in knowledge and understanding of the gifts and needs of her members who live with disabilities. In this regard, a revised and expanded Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments with Persons with Disabilities has been issued.

Living as Missionary Disciples provides dioceses and parishes and other church ministries with a road map to "new paths for the Church's journey" of evangelization. It offers principles that dioceses and parishes can apply to their efforts in evangelization and missionary discipleship.

Pope Francis has inaugurated the World Day of the Poor which will be marked each year on the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time. It will be celebrated November 19 this year, with the theme from the letter of John to love "not with words, but with deeds" (I John 3:18).

Hispanic youth and young adult groups across the nation will compete in a viral video challenge for the best movements and gestures to Nuestra Alegría, the official youth and young adult song for the V Encuentro.

Pope Francis has called a gathering of bishops across the world (called a Synod) in October 2018 on the topic of Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment. To help Pope Francis and the Bishops prepare for this Synod they are asking both Catholics and non-Catholics across the world to share their experience.

Cardinal Dolan has asked the Dean of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education to develop online Theology courses that will be open to all lectors, Eucharistic ministers, catechists and other interested parishioners throughout the Archdiocese.

A Confirmation Retreat with 450 eighth graders from four parishes in Northern Westchester gathered on January 16.

The Catechetical Office in concert with the Schools Office has revised the Guidelines for Catechesis for grades one through six. They are now available here on our website in English and Spanish.

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors launched a new website Tuesday, which is designed to help inform the public about their work, and includes resources for Church leaders on safeguarding children and caring for survivors.

The Archdiocesan Liturgy Office has newly-published guidelines for the celebration of marriage. The Guidelines are available for download.

FORMED can be compared to Netflix for Catholics, but it is much more. Every parish in the Archdiocese has a free subscription. Check out this brochure for more information.