This lesson aims at helping parents teach their children how to make good moral choices. God made us in His image with the freedom to choose between what is good and what is evil. The Church gives us a way to evaluate the morality of any given action. And Jesus gives us the help of His grace to build virtue to be better able to choose the good.
Perfect happiness comes from loving God and being loved by Him; other things that bring happiness in this life are foretastes of the love of God in Heaven.
A Sacrament is an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, through which divine life is dispensed to us.
Three specific spiritual practices will strengthen our ability to resist temptation and pursue holiness: prayer and the Sacraments, acts of virtue, and self-denial.
God rejoices when we return to Him in Confession.
When we confess our sins to a priest, we are going to God directly.
The matter, form, minister, recipient, effects, and symbols of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son helps us understand God’s infinite mercy.
Jesus established the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick so that we might be healed and strengthened, not only of our physical afflictions, but also of our spiritual sins.
Jesus suffered, died, and was buried for our sins.
Jesus told His disciples that He would always be with them, and that we must be humble and open to the Holy Spirit.
