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Resource Publications, Inc.
160 E. Virginia St. Suite #290 San Jose, CA 95112-5876 ph: 408-286-8505 fx: 408-287-8748 |
For Immediate Release
Contact: Dina Salcido 408-286-8505 Dina@rpinet.com www.rpinet.com |
Praying together encourages healthy dialogue between children and parents
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 4, 2003 — Resource Publications, Inc., announces the release of Praying with Your Children, a handy guide filled with strategies to help families learn to pray together.Author Dr. Pat Fosarelli, a pediatrician for 26 years and a pastoral associate, offers a holistic approach to the prayer lives of children, including babies and toddlers, and their parents. With her expertise in child development as well as theology, Dr. Fosarelli has designed activities to address the spiritual development of both children and their parents to expand their concepts of prayer in creative ways.
“Prayer is communication with God. It is a heart-felt desire to enter into a deeper relationship with God. Prayer can be audible or silent, public or private, joyful or serious. It can be full of words or wordless. That might surprise many adults who were only taught word-prayers as they were growing up. But we can communicate with words or without words. Just as a baby’s cry communicates to her parents that she is hungry or tired, or a glance between parents can convey the unspoken, wordless prayer can communicate to God a person’s feeling of joy, fear, or even doubt,” writes Fosarelli.
Complete with perforated pages, Praying with Your Children makes a great resource for every parent of preschoolers, elementary-age children, pre-teens or older teens. Special brochure that can be removed, folded and given to each child are a unique component of this book. Each specific age-level brochure contains an introduction written especially for the young reader, a passage from Scripture, thoughts for quiet reflection and ideas for fun, stimulating activities designed to help both parent and child benefit from the prayer experience.
This book’s user-friendly format contains a variety of methods for family prayer from planned prayers to spontaneous prayers and even imaginative suggestions of places to pray. Praying with Your Children is intended to help children, adolescents and the significant adults in their lives learn to express their love of God and family through prayer.
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Pat Fosarelli, MD, DMin, received her MD from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, her MA in theology from the Ecumenical Institute of Theology of St. Mary’s Seminary and University and her DMin from Wesley Theological Seminary. Currently, she is on the part-time faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (department of pediatrics) and the faculty of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology (departments of spirituality and practical theology). Dr. Fosarelli is a pastoral associate at Corpus Christi Church in Baltimore.
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PRAYING WITH YOUR CHILDREN A Guide for Families Pat Fosarelli Paper, $4.95 (bulk discounts available) 48 perforated pages, 8½" × 11" ISBN 0-89390-589-5 |
To order Praying with Your Children call Resource Publications, Inc., at 888-273-7782 (toll-free). For interviews, speaking engagements, and writing assignments call Dina (408) 286-8505 or e-mail dina@rpinet.com. Or, read the table of contents and an excerpt.
Resource Publications, Inc. strives to help people reach their fullest potential on both personal and professional levels by providing resources for leaders in ministry and education. Current ministry resources include Ministry & Liturgy magazine, Liturgical Catechesis magazine, Celebrating the Lectionary, Sacramental Register 4.0, and many other books and music collections. Visit the RPI website at www.rpinet.com.
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