You can help fund movie about vocations

Abbie Reese, author of our One Diocese, One Book selection, "Dedicated to God," about the Poor Clare nuns of Rockford, is trying to get the film "Chosen (Custody of the Eyes)" edited in to a feature film. As she says in her flyer, most of the images are the work of one of the youngest women living in the Rockford monastery. If you would like to help spread the word about vocations in the modern world, you can learn more at www.chosenthefilm.com. There is a fundraiser going on now.

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Books approach lessons to youths differently

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Human development is an interesting field of study. Over the last 100 years a variety of social sciences have explored what are developmentally appropriate tasks for each stage of life. A great deal of study has gone into trying to understand the development that takes place during adolescence, the period that runs roughly through the teen years but may begin earlier and often continues into the early 20s.
The two books considered in this review also address these adolescent years but from a religious development perspective. While they come from the same publisher and are aimed at the same audience, their approaches are very different. Both offer ideas that would be beneficial to the teens to which the books are addressed, but only one of the books offers these ideas in a teen-friendly way.
“From Teens to Twenties” offers 28 lessons that the author, Alexander J. Basile, feels that teens should learn. Basile chairs the religion department at Kellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale, New York.