My first Confirmation class! Our students are 7th graders from South Boston - the boys are separated from the girls, and team-taught. The boys get 5 of us seminarians (three from the Oblates and two from St. John Seminary); the girls get 4 women from the parish. It was a good first class, in which we were able to meet the students, introduce the first lesson, and attend Sunday Mass with them.
We are delivering content mandated by the Archdiocese that teaches the first-year Confirmation students about love, happiness, relationships and decision-making, including multimedia content by Jason Evert and others. The program, called Created for Love, was created a few years ago with consultation from experts in all the pertinent fields, including local professors of philosophy and theology, specialists in adolescent psychology, and medical professionals who are accustomed to serving children in this age group and remedying their various issues. The program includes a supplemental DVD with videos to educate the parents regarding faith and moral issues relevant to their children at this time in their lives, and how to accurately describe various physical and psychological changes their children undergo, so that they might use that additional information at their discretion to better bring up their children and provide a richer support system for them at home.
It is a good program, and this semester-long session for the 7th graders includes more than just that content.
Please pray for our students, and for all those preparing to receive various sacraments in the Church, that they might come to an intimate relationship with Christ, spurring them to learn more about their faith and, consequently, grow even closer to Him.
Love the Immaculata!
Mariam cogita, Mariam invoca
2 comments:
"CCC 1309: Preparation for Confirmation should aim at leading the Christian toward a more intimate union with Christ and a more lively familiarity with the Holy Spirit - his actions, his gifts, and his biddings - in order to be more capable of assuming the apostolic responsibilities of Christian life. To this end catechesis for Confirmation should strive to awaken a sense of belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ, the universal Church as well as the parish community. The latter bears special responsibility for the preparation of confirmands."
Yes! Thanks, Michele!
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