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| Handbook for Grade School Nuns (book) |
Mother Ximenes's book covers a number of key areas and topics for the newly ordained grade-school level instructor, including teaching ("Things Catholic Children Should Know"), religion ("Ways to Cultivate the Fear of Dying in Mortal Sin" and "Conversion Tactics"), fundraising for the school ("Ways of Raising Money"), and suggestions for successful May Processions [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 107-113].
- Things Catholic Children Should Know
- The equator is eight thousand miles long.
- What uranium can do.
- The story about Louis IX and his mother.
- There is a priest living in the walls of St. Sophia's church in Constantinople.
- The ouiji board story.
- Ways to Cultivate the Fear of Dying in Mortal Sin
- Point out how difficult it is to make a perfect Act of Contrition just before death.
- The story of a man who hasn't gone to Communion for years.
- Make your students memorize the Litany for a Happy Death.
- Conversion Tactics
- Lecture on the sorrows of a mixed marriage.
- Non-Catholic parents might be converted through prayer and good example.
- Mention Protestants have a funny way of saying the "Our Father."
- Mention Protestants can get to Heaven but that when they get there they may not know what it's all about.
- Ways to Make Money
- Raffle Your Grandmother out of Purgatory.
- At Christmas have your students sell sick-call kits door to door.
- Have drives of all kinds: paper drives, bottle cap drives, jelly jar drives.
- Point out to students that the sisters will starve if thoughtful mothers do not deluge them with pies, cakes and assorted paastries.
- The May Procession
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