Your children will learn the Church teaches that God placed the desire for happiness in each of our hearts. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave us the Beatitudes to show us what it means to be happy. The Beatitudes are the promise of the happiness of those who hope in the Kingdom of God.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to learn that Jesus came to earth to fulfill the Old Law and the prophets, which promised a Messiah that would save us from sin and death and bring us to new life. The Beatitudes are the heart of Jesus’ preaching; therefore, through the Beatitudes we see the perfection and fulfillment of the Old Law in the New.
The Beatitudes teach us the character of the Christian life; they are “paradoxical promises” of hope.
Jesus fulfills the Old Testament role of prophet by doing God’s will, speaking God’s truth to the people, and revealing God to the people.
Prayer is a battle, and Scripture provides guidance for how to triumph.
Jesus taught us how to achieve perfect happiness in Heaven with God by living our purpose here on earth by following the Beatitudes.
The Paschal Mystery is how Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection saved us from sin and death for new life as sons and daughters of God.
In order to live the good life we must cultivate not only the inner life of moral virtue, but the outer life by our participation in our communities, participation in the Sacraments, and instruction by those holy ones who came before us.
The most well-known and essential of Jesus’ teachings was the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus delivered the Beatitudes.
Jesus is the light of the world and the way, the truth, and the life.
Being holy means living like Jesus.
All members of God’s Kingdom are called to share the Kingdom with others and to welcome it in their hearts.
Morality is the quality of our actions whereby they are right or wrong.
As Catholics, we are called to be Christ in the world and build His Kingdom through our actions.
There is no freedom except in service of what is good and just; because we are free to make choices, we are responsible for those choices.
