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| Our Father's Plan: Creed -- A Course on Catholic Belief Seventh grade Religion builds on the Biblical and religious foundation of sixth grade Religion, focusing on the main beliefs of the Catholic Faith. It is essential for students to have taken Religion 6 if they are to properly grasp the concepts presented in Religion 7. Course Objectives (taken from upper grade Religion curriculum) To reinforce the truth that God exists. To have students understand that God is a Trinity of Persons, and has revealed Himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To show that even though the human race lost its original innocence and grace through the sin of its first parents, God has worked in the world throughout human history to bring the human race back to Himself. To let students know that God the Father's own Son became human at a specific time in history to make up for Adam's sin. To demonstrate that while on earth, Jesus preached, healed, and prepared the foundation for the final stage in God's plan of salvation, namely the establishment |
| of a worldwide family. This family represents the greatest covenant between God and the world. To make the claim that the final covenant in Salvation History is God's invitation to the whole world to belong to His family, and that family, which has been built up since Adam and Eve, is the Catholic Church. To proclaim that the Church exists to preserve and preach the truths handed on by Jesus, and to show the world the way to salvation. To show that the Catholic Church takes literally the claim of Jesus to be "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," and never ceases to proclaim that there is no salvation without Him. To define salvation as avoiding hell and entering heaven. To have students understand that the Church is the guardian of Scripture, which is the written Word of God, and which the Church alone has the authority to interpret. To have students realize that the truth about what is spritually true and false, and what is morally right and wrong, rests on three things: Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the teaching authority of the Church, which is called the Magisterium. To show that the Church offers her members the Sacraments, which are the normal ways in which God transmits His grace. To define grace as the life of God in the soul, which leads it closer to union with Him. Sin damages grace, while virtue builds it up. To demonstrate that the first Sacrament, Baptism, is the ordinary way in which a person enters God's family. To show also that the rest of the Sacraments exist to nourish and heal the Body of Christ, which is the Church, and to lead her members closer to union with God. To show students that the main beliefs of the Catholic Church are summed up in her creeds, or statements of belief, such as the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, etc. To have students come to know Jesus better, by reading the entire Gospel of Luke among other things. To offer striking evidence of the reality of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist through Scripture and accounts of Eucharistic miracles. Materials 1. Creed: A Course on Catholic Belief textbook (William H. Sadlier, Inc., New York, NY, 1998). 2. Religion notebook from sixth grade. After the Gospel of Luke, students are treated to a full-length film about the life of Jesus titled The Revolutionary. Other materials supplement the course during the year. |
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