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Lesson 11: God Calls Us to Be Saints
The saints are models of holiness, of how to love God and love our neighbor.
The saints are models of holiness, of how to love God and love our neighbor.
Jesus is our model of holiness.
All human labor has dignity in the eyes of God and is related to our being made in the image of God.
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 will learn that sanctifying grace is God’s very life in our soul. Mortal sin destroys that life and leads to the death of the soul. But God in His mercy gives us countless opportunities to turn back onto the path of life. Children will also learn that the Church gives us five precepts or laws that show us the very minimum required to develop our spiritual lives and grow in love of God and of neighbor.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to understand that Jesus Christ came to bring healing to both our bodies and our souls. It was His desire that, through the ministry of his Church, spiritual and physical healing would continue to be available for all of time.
Jesus Christ showed us that we cannot truly practice our Faith in isolation. In keeping with our human nature, we take on the mission of Christian discipleship within the human community: the family, the parish, the town, nation, and the world. In all of these, we have responsibilities toward God and our neighbor that can be expressed in what is called social justice. This lesson focuses on principles of Catholic Social Teaching that includes the dignity of the human person, the family, justice, peace, and solidarity.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to learn that, at the Last Supper, Christ gave us the New Commandment, which He declares is the surest sign that we are His disciples. The Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy are also signs given to us by Christ, through His Church, that help us to choose the right way to respond to our brothers and sisters in the human family.
The saints are models of holiness, of how to love God and love our neighbor.
Jesus came to seek out the lost and offer them forgiveness and salvation from sin.
By his nature, man needs society.
We are made in the image of God, meaning that we are made for communion with God and each other.
Christ taught us to love God and our neighbor.
Society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them.
Relationships founded on justice, love, and mutual respect build up the Church and the Kingdom of God.