We hope to become wise men and share the gold of unchanging value with each other, offer the scent of frankincense overflowing with the scent of Christ to the Lord, and offer myrrh to be with our neighbors and families in pain. Fr. Jim~May God's love light your way~^^
Shouldn't the Church have Sunday school for children which may involve families too? Currently catechists have only 30 minutes a week to instruct children and with time spent on checking rolls etc. only leaves 20 minutes at the most. That's not enough time for teaching and allowing the wonderful Bible stories to sink in. With the families involve don't you think that'll be more effective?
It sounds like you are a school catechist, and for that, thank you! Yes, it is such a limited time frame but we are lucky to still have access to teach scripture at all, so we want to treasure that opportunity. Countries which don't have school SRE like Vietnam and India (and probably many others) do have after school hours religion classes based in the parish. I agree that the involvement of families is much more effective. But rather than have more lessons for the children , my preference is that we work to empower parents to be the first teachers of faith to their children so that they can teach and model faith and Christian virtue to their children. This is the one thing which we know really works.
We hope to become wise men and share the gold of unchanging value with each other, offer the scent of frankincense overflowing with the scent of Christ to the Lord, and offer myrrh to be with our neighbors and families in pain.
Fr. Jim~May God's love light your way~^^
thank you - what a beautiful analogy for the three gifts!
Shouldn't the Church have Sunday school for children which may involve families too? Currently catechists have only 30 minutes a week to instruct children and with time spent on checking rolls etc. only leaves 20 minutes at the most. That's not enough time for teaching and allowing the wonderful Bible stories to sink in. With the families involve don't you think that'll be more effective?
It sounds like you are a school catechist, and for that, thank you! Yes, it is such a limited time frame but we are lucky to still have access to teach scripture at all, so we want to treasure that opportunity. Countries which don't have school SRE like Vietnam and India (and probably many others) do have after school hours religion classes based in the parish. I agree that the involvement of families is much more effective. But rather than have more lessons for the children , my preference is that we work to empower parents to be the first teachers of faith to their children so that they can teach and model faith and Christian virtue to their children. This is the one thing which we know really works.