What is the importance of Religious Education?
Learning about your faith is to help you to continue to pursue a deeper relationship with God.
How can you love someone you don't know or someone who seems distant to you?
God is not distant. He is here, and He is seeking a relationship with you. But no one can force someone to love them and enter into a deeper relationship; both parties of the relationship must choose to enter willingly and fully. God, loves you, and He is ready to enter into a deeper relationship with you when you are ready.
How can you love someone you don't know or someone who seems distant to you?
God is not distant. He is here, and He is seeking a relationship with you. But no one can force someone to love them and enter into a deeper relationship; both parties of the relationship must choose to enter willingly and fully. God, loves you, and He is ready to enter into a deeper relationship with you when you are ready.
Your program only goes through the 8th grade... Does Religious Education end in the 8th grade?
Religious Education does NOT end in the 8th grade.
We are ALL called to continue to continue to learn more about our Faith and form a continually deeper relationship with Christ. If Religious Education ended when the classes end, then we would all only have an 8th grade understanding of our Faith and of our Lord.
In your spiritual journey towards Christ is like climbing a slippery slope of a mountain. If you are not putting in the effort and climbing towards the peak, you are slipping backwards. Thus, "graduating" from Religious Education and not doing anything to help continue your faith formation and development is like standing "still" on the slope and letting yourself slowly slip backwards down the mountain.
We are ALL called to continue to continue to learn more about our Faith and form a continually deeper relationship with Christ. If Religious Education ended when the classes end, then we would all only have an 8th grade understanding of our Faith and of our Lord.
In your spiritual journey towards Christ is like climbing a slippery slope of a mountain. If you are not putting in the effort and climbing towards the peak, you are slipping backwards. Thus, "graduating" from Religious Education and not doing anything to help continue your faith formation and development is like standing "still" on the slope and letting yourself slowly slip backwards down the mountain.
1 Hour is very short... Is 1 hour enough time to teach the children everything?
No.
We cannot teach everything in 1 hour a week. That is why it is crucial that the parents are the primary educators of the Faith to their children. That is also why Religious Education does not end after the 8th grade (see question above).
God is not definable. If you think you completely know God, you do not. God is not limited to your understanding of Him. Therefore we all must continue to learn and grow in our faith.
We cannot teach everything in 1 hour a week. That is why it is crucial that the parents are the primary educators of the Faith to their children. That is also why Religious Education does not end after the 8th grade (see question above).
God is not definable. If you think you completely know God, you do not. God is not limited to your understanding of Him. Therefore we all must continue to learn and grow in our faith.
