Religion (Lesson 14)

• Children and parents in situations of child abuse must be given professional and spiritual help
• Children distancing from parents happens during children's adolescent or rebellious years
• Children's opinions or company of their peers are often involved more than parents


  Generation gap - rifts between parents and children
• The generation gap widens if the parents are absent due to work
• There is no school for parents, they learn every day with their family
• St. Paul urges us not to repay evil with evil
• The Christian family movement started in 1956 for married couples and family groups
• Love


  Fundamental and innate vocation of every human being
• Jesus shares with us the love that he receives from the father, creating the human race in his own image and continually keeping it
• Jesus commands "Love one another as I love you"
• The family is where we first receive and give love, sealed in the Sacrament of Matrimony
• In the Old Testament, Yahweh through Moses gave the Israelites the greatest commandment to love God with all of one's heart, soul and strength
• Teaching the Faith starts in the Family, even in the Old Testament
• The family is a covenant, a covenant agreement sealed by blood
• Affirmation is one key to maintaining a covenant relationship among family members
• The Church is a community of believers, composed of family and therefore a domestic household church
• The family is the first school of discipleship
• Parents are our first catechists, their mission is to have their children baptized
• Godparents' mission is to form the children to be true disciples of God
• The family is the first and vital cell of society
• Society is composed of families, the easiest way to rebuild or destroy a society is through the family
• The foundations of a society are laid in the family
• Obstacle to honoring parents

  • not all parents acts as loving parents
  • children distancing from parents
  • generation gap
• How many obstacles to honoring parents? Three