A Roman Catholic Catechism for Families
By Joe Kubler
Copyright Joe Kubler 2010 All rights Reserved
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Introduction
Our Catholic faith is a gift from God. As the very first paragraph in the Catechism of the
Catholic Church (CCC) states:
"God,
infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness
freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this
reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He
calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength.
He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity
of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of
time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and
through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted
children and thus heirs of his blessed life."
This
document is intended for teaching younger children the Catholic Faith
with the help of a parents or teacher. In
particular, I am focusing this at ten year olds (the age of my youngest
daughter). It follows the four sections of the CCC with an additional
section on the Rosary and common Catholic prayers. Each section has a
seperate table of contents at the beginning of the page.
- Part I: Profession
of Faith (Nicene Creed), The
Creed is used to discuss a simple view of God’s plan of salvation. Many
phrases in the Nicene Creed are used to teach about this plan.
- Part II: Celebration
of the Christian Mysteries (Sacraments).
The
Sacraments are used to
teach about Grace and God’s presence to us. The
Holy Mass is discussed in this section with brief introductions to the
main parts of the mass, the Church calendar and so forth.
- Part III: Life in
Christ. This part discusses our relationship with Christ our Lord and
how it can be damaged by sin. One tool used here are the “fives”, that
is Deuteronomy 5, Galatians 5 and Matthew 5. These teach:
This
section also teaches about how we are to live our lives like Jesus, to
conform our lives to his and how the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Saints
are also role models for us.
- Part IV: Prayer. The section describes the
types of prayer and discusses the phrases in the Our Father.
Two more sections have been added as follows:
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