Living Faith For Kids
Welcome to LIVING FAITH FOR KIDS!
"We're really very excited about Living Faith for Kids. For one thing, it helps children learn the Bible by teaching them how to look up things in the Bible. And it helps them to pray daily. They can read this when they get up in the morning or read it before they go to bed at night. I think its wonderful."
Sande Murphy, Registrar for Faith Formation
St. Thomas More Catholic Church
Centennial, Colorado
We are also very excited as we begin this magazine specially made to help young people ages 8 - 12 pray each day with the Bible. Like LIVING FAITH: Daily Catholic Devotions , this booklet features brief devotions on the Scripture readings from the daily Catholic Mass.

Through daily prayer, we all build a relationship with God that will last our whole lives. God has put a desire to pray in your heart and mine, and when we respond to it, our faith grows.

Young people grow in so many ways and learn so much. Their faith can grow, too, not just by learning about the Gospels, Church teaching and the saints, but by experiencing Jesus personally in their own life. Living Faith for Kids wants to help that happen.
Each 128-page quarterly issue will provide:
  • Daily devotions based on one of the readings from the Mass
  • Background on the Church year, saints' days and special events.
  • Games and puzzles related to Scripture, prayer and the Church
  • Questions from readers and responses from a parish priest.
We hope that you like what we have done and that you write to us with your questions and suggestions. We hope that you will share this booklet with your friends and family. And let us know how we can do a better job—nobody's perfect, after all!
Mark Neilsen, editor
Sample Pages
Hey, Kids! Give us a holler Here at Living Faith for Kids, we want to know what our readers like and don’t like, what they are interested in and curious about.

We’d love for you to write us with your questions, comments and ideas. It helps us create a better Living Faith for Kids for you and helps the other readers in their journeys with Christ. We may even print your comments in a future issue of Living Faith for Kids! Tell us what you think! We’d Love to Hear from You!

U.S. Postal Service Mail:
Living Faith for Kids
1564 Fencorp Drive
Fenton, MO 63026-2942

Email: info@livingfaith.com

Want to write, but don’t know what to say? Here are some ideas for you to think about. Use one, two or all three
  1. Tell us what you like best about Living Faith for Kids.
  2. Write your own prayer or scriptural devotion, just like the ones in Living Faith for Kids.
  3. Submit a question for the “Ask Fr. Jim” section. We can’t use them all, but maybe we’ll use yours!
How to use the Booklet Living Faith for Kids is based on one of the Bible readings used during the daily Mass. Each day of the year has its own special readings, sometimes because it is a saint’s day or Holy Day of Obligation, sometimes because it is a special season like Advent or Lent. Whenever a Holy Day of Obligation or a season like Advent or Lent comes around, we’ll tell you a little about it.

Using the booklet is simple. Each day has a Scripture passage to read and a short thought about the reading (sometimes called a devotion). Finally, a prayer or action suggestion may close the day’s entry.

That doesn’t mean you have to stop praying, though. If your heart wants to pray about something else, or maybe just quietly visit with Jesus, this would be a great time to do it.

We never look at more than one Scripture passage a day, but actually there are three or more Bible passages used at Mass each day. So we’ll give you the CITATIONS (sigh-TAY-shuns) for each day so that you can look them up in your own Bible.

Here’s a citation example from the Mass readings for January 1: Numbers 6:22-27. “Numbers” is a book of the Old Testament or the Hebrew Scriptures in the Bible. “6” refers to chapter six, and the next numbers, “22-27,” are the verses to be read. Simple, right?

Daily prayer is a way to have a growing relationship with God, a way to spend a little time with Someone you care about. Because the Bible is God’s way of telling us how much we are loved, Scripture is a wonderful place for prayer to begin. Where prayer will end is up to you and God.