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Chapter 1: The Universal Call to Holiness
The universal call to holiness is the vocation of every human person; God calls each of us to be holy as He is holy, that is, to be saints.
The universal call to holiness is the vocation of every human person; God calls each of us to be holy as He is holy, that is, to be saints.
In this lesson your children explore the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. In this Sacrament, our sins are forgiven and we are reconciled to God and His Church through the confession of those sins and acts of penance. We are also strengthened by this Sacrament to avoid sin in the future.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to understand that God is merciful. Your children will be able to explain the “special grace” from God that we receive during the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. They will also see the relationship between Jesus’ healing and the Church’s continuation of this healing through the sacrament.
In this lesson your children explore the gateway to the Christian life: Baptism. In Baptism, your children were cleansed of the stain of Original Sin and became part of God’s family.
The matter, form, minister, recipient, effects, and symbols of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
The Sacraments are special ways in which Jesus gives us grace.
The sacrificial lamb was a sign of the Passover that saved the Israelites from the Angel of Death.
The effect of this Sacrament is reconciliation with God and the Church.
Like Mary, we can keep important moments in our hearts in order to discern how they can help us become the person God wants us to be.
God rejoices when we return to Him in Confession.
Jesus’ death on the Cross and Resurrection made it possible for us to go to Heaven.
The sacraments are signs of grace that give us God’s divine life.
In the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, we receive an outpouring of God’s grace to strengthen us to face suffering and sickness and even death that results from Original Sin.
Jesus said that when people come together to pray using His name, He is actually with them listening, helping, and praying with them too.
Jesus ushered in the Kingdom of God by fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah, healing the sick and forgiving sins.