Mission

Symballousa likes to assist educators in passing on the one True, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Faith to people of good will by offering Catholic PowerPoints, Templates, Resources and Pedagogy Advice.

We have complete fidelity to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary and adhere to the authentic and consistent understanding of Catholic Scripture, Tradition and Magisterial Authority of past two millennia.

Symballousa provides engaging visual and written resources, experiential stories and pedagogical thoughts. We perform charitable works with profits of funds generated, but with a focus on supporting children’s needs.

Quality Resource Focus

Our mission strives to provide higher quality educational resources, keeping in mind, that the Faith is most often caught from others, and not just taught.

Our Resources are generally customisable so you can meet the needs of the student demographic you’re engaging.

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Our website includes resources like:

• Catholic PowerPoints, Templates, Infographics, Audio Visuals, Timelines
• Member Pedagogy Posts for teachers, trainers, lecturers and speakers…
• Quality web links related to websites for professional articles
• Handy class management tools and time-savers

Staffed by qualified Catholic High School teacher with:

• Many years of experience teaching religion and many other subjects to every school age level in All-Boys, All-Girls and Co-Ed Catholic High Schools. Multiple university degrees/diplomas
• Catechetical work in Public School System and within the greater Catholic community
• Many stories to tell about teaching and discussing religion

Privacy

Please understand the nature of our past and current teaching work, because it demands a degree of anonymity, so names and places are all modified in our website material to protect privacy for everyone. We do not seek the limelight but are quiet achievers.

Future Offerings

I will be endeavouring to publish regular private member topical posts with special free access to Catholic PowerPoints, Templates, Resources and Pedagogy offerings. Concise constructive feedback on topics to improve new product offerings are welcome.

We hope you can contribute to our small dedicated community, and benefit further from what we have learnt and continue to learn.

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Scripture Foundation

Symballousa takes inspiration from Luke 2:19, in which Mary “treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart”. The Greek word Symballousa here refers to her type of pondering. It is contemplative thinking with both heart and mind.

The scripture text references the shepherd’s visit to the infant Christ and their telling of a vision of the Angels who were joyfully proclaiming the birth of the Saviour and peace to men of good will and who also told them how to find the Christ child in Bethlehem in a manger with swaddling clothes, see below.

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Adoration of Shepherds and Angels

⁸ In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. ⁹ Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. ¹⁰ But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: ¹¹ to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord. ¹² This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.” ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,

¹⁴ “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
    and on earth peace among those whom he favours!”

¹⁵ When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” ¹⁶ So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. ¹⁷ When they saw this, they made known what had been told them about this child; ¹⁸ and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them. ¹⁹ But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart. ²⁰ The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

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