Books and Articles

Books by Dr. Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart

Dr. Calderone-Stewart is the author of 20 books and over 60 articles.  Take a look here and order today!

Changing Lives: Transformational Ministry and Today's Teens A user-friendly walk through the three-year research study on the original Tomorrow's Present project.
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Teens and Parents: Sessions for Growing In Faith Together The resource that youth ministers, family ministers, and catechists need to help teens and parents find neutral ground on which to share their faith and better communicate with each other.
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In Touch with the Word (Series) Helps the entire family stay in touch with the word proclaimed in the liturgy. Titles in this series include: * In Touch with the Word:    Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter * In Touch with the Word:    Cycle A for Ordinary Time * In Touch with the Word:    Cycle B for Ordinary Time * In Touch with the Word:    Cycle C for Ordinary Time
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Prayer Works for Teens (Series) A comprehensive series for engaging teens in prayer in any setting. Titles in this series include: * Prayer Works for Teens: Book 1 * Prayer Works for Teens: Book 2 * Prayer Works for Teens: Book 3 * Prayer Works for Teens: Book 4
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Faith Works (Series) Offers fresh and lively activities and strategies that make faith come alive for youth. Titles in this series include: * Faith Works for Senior High * Faith Works for Junior High
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Life Works and Faith Fits A book of 36 true stories that help teens see the connections between their everyday events and their spirituality.
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Know It! Pray It! Live It! A Family Guide to "The Catholic Youth Bible™" Leads families on a tour through the Scriptures, where they will see what God's word has to say about questions we all ask, like "Why are we here?" and "Why do we die?"
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Catechism Connections for Teens (Series) Contains five books that use real teen characters and the teachings of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to help young people who are searching out their own answers about life, God, and faith. Titles in this series include: * That First Kiss and Other Stories * My Wish List and Other Stories * Better Than Natural and Other Stories * Straight From the Heart and Other Stories * Meeting Frankenstein and Other Stories * Co-authored by Ed Kunzman.
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Lights for the World: Training Leaders for Peer Ministry (Out of Print) A leader's manual for training high school students in leadership skills. Originally published by Saint Mary's Press, this book is now out of print. A small number of the books are still available through The House of Peace.
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Bringing Catholic Youth and the Bible Together edited by Brian Singer-Towns Nine biblical experts and veteran ministers help ministers and teachers bring Catholic youth and The Catholic Youth Bible® together.
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Vibrant Worship with Youth edited by Brian Singer-Towns Articles cover a variety of concerns related to worship with young people: communal participation, cultural considerations, leadership, music, homilies, drama, catechesis, and liturgical ministries.
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Retreat Ideas for Ministry with Young Teens edited by Marilyn Kielbasa Six field-tested retreats developed by professional youth ministers from around the country.
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ARTICLES

JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

Lisa Calderone-Stewart is a columnist in two magazines:

Pastoral Liturgy and Religion Teacher’s Journal.

Pick up any current or recent issue and read her articles!

Pastoral Liturgy (formally Rite), published by Liturgy Training Press

Encouraging Youth in Ministry

(May/June 2008)

Slowing Down by Fasting

Bringing Teens Closer to Scripture

(January/February 2008)

Rite Magazine:

Considering Sinful Patterns

(November/December 2007)

Young People as Liturgical Mentors for Children

(September/October 2007)

Providing Hope to Embrace Life

(July/August 2007)

Youth as Liturgical Ministers

(May/June 2007)

Through the Eyes of Peter

(March/April 2007)

Experiencing the Mystery

(January/February 2007)

Religion Teacher’s Journal, published by Twenty-Third Publications

Five ways to form disciples

(April/May 2008)

Five steps to better faith sharing

(March 2008)

Five ways to teach reconciliation

(February 2008)

Teach a child and reach a family...

in five steps

(January 2008)

Five tips for teaching faith to everybody

(November/December 2007)

Five Steps to Connect with Students and Parents

(October 2007)

Five Steps to Start the School Year off Right

(September 2007)

Living so Baptism makes a difference

(March 2007)

The Four G’s of Teaching  (November/December 2003)

Celebration

www.celebrationpubs.org
(Published by National Catholic Reporter)

Ministry & Liturgy

www.rpinet.com/ml
(Published by Resource Publications)

U.S. Catholic

www.uscatholic.org
(Published by the Claretian Missionaries)

  Come one, come all                                                           June 2008

The Living Light
(Published by The USCCB Department of Education)

Preach

www.wlp.jspaluch.com/wlp
(Published by World library Publications/ J.S. Paluch Company)

New! The 2007 Youth Ministry Resource Manual:

Discover Jesus Christ – The Way

Doctoral Dissertation, presented March 2002, available at Cardinal Stritch University Library in Milwaukee, WI.

Presented at The Forum, a symposium hosted by the Lilly Foundation Indianapolis in January 2003.

Twelve articles about family life and faith moments with young people.

Faith Works (Published by Paulist Press)

Series of 27 articles about the needs and experiences of young people.

CATHOLIC YOUTH BIBLE
(Published by Saint Mary's Press)
Articles on prayer, cultural connections, life application and the Catholic faith throughout the Old and New Testament. (first published in 1999; revised in 2005)

BREAKTHROUGH BIBLE

(Published by Saint Mary’s Press in 2005)

Summaries of and articles in several Old and New Testament books.

YOUTH MINISTRY ACCESS
(Published online by the Center for Ministry Development: www.cmdnet.org)
Weekly youth night session plans available to parish youth ministers; online access comes with password, provided when a user buys a subscription.

High School

A Way to Live and Learn about our Faith: A Retreat Experience on the “Christian Practices”

Summer 2008

The Christian Practices of our Faith – What a Way to Live!

March 2008

O Come Emanuel! Celebrating O Antiphons

December 2007

Proverbs: From the Old Testament and from Folklore

October 2007

Racism: Is your Catholicism color-blind?

June 2007

Resurrection and the Easter Promise: Almost too Good to be True

April 2007

Incarnation: The Human and the Divine  

December 2006

Mohandas Gandhi: Leadership and Non-Violence

October 2006

Life Choices and Vocations

December 2005

Christmas Traditions: Seeing Christmas in Scripture, Seeing Scripture in the Real World  

December 2005

New (Liturgical) Year's Resolutions: How to Participate More in Liturgy

November 2005

Outreach: Using my Natural Talents and Interests to Share My Faith

August 2005

Dare to Believe:  Being a Disciple of the Risen Christ

March 2005

What's so Holy about Holy Thursday?

March 2005

Middle School

The Holy Spirit

May 2008

Values and Behavior: Friendly Advice from the Book of Sirach

January 2008

Celebrating Advent and Christmas with Crismons!

December 2007

Exploring some of the Minor Prophets

November 2007

The Wisdom of Solomon

June 2007

Our Faith Symbols: What do they mean?

April 2007

When the Saints come MARCHing in: Feast days in March 

March 2007

Advent: Whom and what are we celebrating?

December 2006

Thanksgiving: Giving Thanks?

November 2006

The Young in the Old: Stories of Young People from the Old Testament 

October 2006

Heroes: What makes them heroic?

September 2006

Praying the Stations of the Cross

March 2006