Raising Saints Educating Our Youth in the Orthodox Faith, Both at Home and in the Parish

Start date: June 2012 347 minutes, 29 seconds in 24 episodes

“Raising Saints” with Elissa Bjeletich offers tools to bring the Orthodox Christian faith to life for our children. Providing specific ways to express complex ideas to children so that they can understand and make them their own, and offering concrete and practical suggestions to reinforce those ideas, this podcast hopes to equip adults to share the faith with children, shaping the way in which our youth understand their lives. This podcast is for parents, grandparents, and godparents, for Sunday School teachers and for those working in the Youth Ministries—for anyone interested in shepherding our youth along the path to God.

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Date	Title & Description	Duration
Jun 06, 2013	The Little Church in Your House Elissa addresses the little church of the family unit, reminding us that learning to live the Faith shouldn't stop during the summer. Click to play	13:29
May 09, 2013	And Upon Those in the Tombs Elissa encourages families to spread the joy of Pascha to a local cemetery. Click to play	09:18
Apr 25, 2013	Let Pascha’s Drama Unfold Elissa encourages parents and Sunday school teachers to stress the importance of Pascha by sharing in its fullness the story that leads up to Christ's Resurrection. Click to play	13:54
Apr 11, 2013	The Old Testament Let’s not just offer little Bible Stories as morality tales. Let’s instead help our children to encounter the Scriptures in their wholeness, finding Christ in the Old and the New. Click to play	11:46
Mar 28, 2013	Spring Cleaning for the Soul Elissa encourages us to teach our children to view their souls as habitations for our Lord. Click to play	11:20
Mar 08, 2013	Teaching Why We Fast Elissa offers some suggestions for teaching children about the purpose of fasting. Click to play	11:24
Feb 21, 2013	Parables That Prepare: Part 2 Elissa presents part two of her brief series on preparing for Lent. Click to play	16:30
Feb 08, 2013	Parables That Prepare: Part 1 Elissa offers ideas for teaching during the three-week period of preparation for Great Lent (which is itself a preparation) to ensure that our kids benefit from the Church's wise preparation before the preparation. Click to play	18:53
Jan 24, 2013	Heaven and Hell Elissa shares some examples of how to teach children about the Orthodox understanding of heaven and hell. Click to play	12:58
Jan 10, 2013	Lessons Kids Keep When teaching Orthodoxy to children, our goal is not just to make sure that our kids know things about our faith, but rather to shepherd them in their faith. So how do we do that? Elissa shares a few ideas.	15:25
Dec 28, 2012	Teaching Theophany Elissa offers various ideas for communicating the glorious feast of Theophany to children.	19:47
Nov 28, 2012	Giving in Secret Elissa describes how the life of St. Nicholas can be used as an inspiration to give anonymously.	15:17
Nov 15, 2012	Gratitude Elissa offers some suggestions for teaching gratitude to our children.	12:28
Nov 01, 2012	The Nativity Fast Elissa encourages us to participate fully in the Nativity fast in order to prepare our hearts for Christ.	11:31
Oct 18, 2012	Halloween and St. Cyprian Elissa shares how to use the lives of the Saints to combat children's fears.	13:31
Oct 04, 2012	How Do You Know That There’s a God? Elissa explains how to help children who struggle with doubt about the existence of God.	14:46
Sep 20, 2012	Children in Church Elissa explains how to be responsible for a child during the Divine Liturgy.	19:29
Sep 06, 2012	Sanctifying Time Elissa explains how it is that God has no beginning and no end and what that tells us about Him.	18:30
Aug 23, 2012	Back to School Elissa encourages us to allow this season—the beginning of the new school year—to be one that sanctifies us and changes us for the better.	18:42
Aug 09, 2012	The Monastery in Our Hearts Elissa demonstrates how the idea of the monastery is a very useful illustration to help all of us, especially our youth, understand how to be Orthodox in this world.	14:59
Jul 26, 2012	Prayers of Holy Communion Elissa explains how to use images from existing pre-communion prayers to help children prepare themselves for the Holy Mysteries.	16:18
Jul 12, 2012	Prosphora and Theosis Elissa explains how to use the baking of prosphora to talk with children about theosis, which she calls "the meaning of life."	18:00
Jun 28, 2012	Teaching Prayer to Children Elissa encourages us to develop a vocabulary to communicate the significance of prayer in terms children can understand and then offer opportunities to put it into practice.	14:12
Jun 13, 2012	Introduction Elissa explains that the purpose of her podcast is to present ideas for educating our youth in the Orthodox faith—to identify new ways to talk about ancient Truths.	05:02