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Religious Education Parents
Sunday Mornings or Monday Evenings Join RE mom, Tricia Massa, in the SJE school library DURING your the Religious Education class for Adult Faith Formation sessions:
Jeff Cavins Video Series: Adventures in Revelation
Contact Tricia directly for more information at 219-558-0581 or at tmassa@comcast.net to participate. A $5.00 donation defrays the cost of materials.
All adults are welcome to participate. You do not need to have a child enrolled in the RE program.
What adult makes decisions in their life equipped only
with knowledge that they learned in elementary school?
We need to regularly learn more about our faith in order
to be able to deal with all life's complexities. In
our childhood we receive the gift of our parents' faith.
Questioning our childhood view of God and faith is necessary to arrive at an adult faith - "faith by choice."
Growth in faith is lifelong and does not end upon reaching adulthood.
§43, Catechesi Tradendae, Apostolic Exhortation of Pope John Paul II, 1979
A living faith is a searching faith - it "seeks
understanding." Adults need to question, probe, and critically reflect on the meaning of God's revelation
in their unique lives in order to grow closer to God.
§158, Catechism of the Catholic Church (citing St. Anselm), U.S. Catholic Conference, 2000
"The maturation of the Christian life requires
that it be cultivated in all its dimensions: knowledge
of the faith, liturgical life, moral formation, prayer,
belonging to community, and missionary spirit."
§87, cf. §84-86, General Directory for Catechesis, U.S. Catholic Conference, 1998
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