To Mark Catholic Education Week 2012
Bishop Joseph Devine writes This Education Sunday, as we celebrate the Church's mission to teach, I am delighted to be able to commend to you a recent publication. You will be familiar with these words from the Rite of Baptism: This is our faith, this is the faith of the Church; we are proud to profess it in Christ Jesus our Lord. These words are spoken as the parents and godparents stand with the child who is being baptised.
This is our faith is a fitting title for the new document which now governs the teaching of Catholic Religious Education in Scotland. It has been designed to offer children and young people a vision of life which proclaim the world to be God's C reation, humans to be made in God's image and likeness and Jesus Christ to be our Redeemer and Lord. It embraces a vision of Religious Education which provides opportunities to learn about Jesus, to understand his teaching, to develop the virtues and values he promoted, and to follow him as Way, Truth and Life. This is our faith will shape the planning of opportunities for faith learning which are provided in the classroom and are enriched by learning at home and in the parish. It will be great source of support and inspiration for teachers, families and parishes as they accompany young people on their journey of faith. This is on faith will help us all, in the words of Pope Benedict to “form new generations, not only in knowledge of the faith but in every aspect of what it means to live as mature and responsible citizens in today's world”.
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