Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Suggestions for Catholic Magicians

Catholic magicians around the world, principally in Europe (especially southern Europe,) North America, Philippines, Australia and Latin America, seek out their own ways of performing Gospel Magic. Some suggestions include:

  1. Consider offering your services to children hospitals and homes for the elderly. If during your hospital rounds, you have the opportunity to offer a silent prayer and blessing to the infirmed do so as unobtrusively as you can.
  2. Volunteer time at Catholic schools and at parishes' cathetical classes including Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) and Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD)
  3. Take advantage of the catechetical classes for adults offered by parishes and dioceses to better prepare yourself to teach children.
  4. Offer your services for retreat work with kids, prayer groups with adults and school fairs. It offers the most flexible and relaxed settings for kids and adults to learn about Catholicism.
  5. Commemorating the feastdays of Sts Don Bosco, Nicholas Owen, Genesius the Actor, Albert Magnus with magic performances especially for disabled and poor children.
  6.  For those who feel they are truly academically unprepared to teach catechetical classes to kids or adults, instead, contact the usual teachers at your parish and ask them for the topic they are about to teach. Instead of teaching the entire course, you might be able to offer a single magic effect or two to teach that particular theological point.

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