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E-BOOK: It's a Mystery! The Secret Garden

Sandra Garant

Enter the Secret Garden, meet the Queen of Heaven, run a Rosary Race, solve puzzles, avoid shipwrecks, create your own Mary Garden, design an obstacle course, and discover the truth about your Catholic faith.

The It's a Mystery Series continues with this third children's retreat based on Catholic dogma. The Secret Garden focuses on Marian dogma and traditions. Like the previous two retreats, this third one is independent. Thus, a family or parish group may enjoy the retreats in any order. The number of children participating in these retreats varies from three to over one hundred.

The goals of this unique and interactive retreat are threefold:

1. Introducing children to Marian dogma

Mary is truly the Mother of God.
Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin and remained sinless.
Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, and she remained a virgin.
Mary was assumed into Heaven body and soul.

2. Teaching Catholic traditions both old and new

Rosary
Marian hymns
Marian virtues
Mary gardens

3. Showing children how they can participate in living their faith

through games
through prayer
by practicing virtues, especially patience

This well-organized program guides you day by day through the process of putting on a retreat even if you have no experience. Includes complete daily lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, indoor and outdoor game directions, prayers, hymns, illustrated craft directions, Scripture study, shopping list, promotional materials, healthful snack suggestions, suggestions for a "Marian Party," and more!

You get 2 retreats in 1: Ages 2 to 5 and 5 to 12. Includes manual and appendix of reproducible activities and masters. 79 pages.

E-BOOK download: 2.6MB

“I researched a lot of vacation bible school options to use for a Catholic Cousin Camp held overnight at my home. I really wanted something Catholic, and not too intimidating for me, a beginner at hosting any camp. I also needed something inexpensive, not $400, since I was hosting a smaller-scale camp. For $20 I ordered and downloaded The Secret Garden, and in a week I had the camp organized, with supplies ready to go. We had 11 children ranging in age from 3 to 15 (mostly 10-11 year olds). It helped to have every minute over planned with all the ideas from the book. Nobody ever said the words I dread to hear, "I'm bored." Every night we sat in a circle and prayed the rosary together, most of them for the first time. One thing I added which was a huge success was teaching them how to make rosaries. At downtimes, they all sat around making more. They can't wait to do it again next summer, and they want it to be Catholic. We'll be ordering another one next year. Thank you so much, CHC, for providing us with high quality, inexpensive, truly Catholic materials that help evangelize the young ones that want a relationship with Jesus, whether they know it or not!”

- Lauri, CA

“Last June our parish held its very first children's summer program. We used the Catholic Children's Retreat: "It's a Mystery - The Holy Trinity." This June we held our second Catholic Children's Retreat using The Secret Garden theme and I can't say enough about the blessings experienced during the week. Last year's was great; this year's was absolutely fantastic! Last year we had 63 children; this year more than 90 children came! Thank you for your distinctly Catholic materials ... they have truly been a blessing to all the children and adults who experienced our 2006 Catholic Children's Retreat!”

- Carol, KY

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