While the catechesis offered within the family is ordinarily informal, unstructured, and spontaneous, it is no less crucial for the development of the child's faith.  "In a certain sense nothing replaces family catechesis, especially for its positive and receptive environment, for the example of adults, and for its first explicit experience and practice of the faith."

- National Directory for Catechesis, 48.E.1

One of the best ways for families to form faith is to simply talk about the Sunday readings together.  Check here each week for discussion prompts.


Questions of the Week:

Adults:

• Which response to God's call is more natural to you - prayer or action?  Why?

Children:
 

• In the past week, when have you prayed and when have you done good things for others?  Which could you do better?

Fashioning Faith is a subscription resource from the Center for Ministry Development that offers complete faith formation sessions on a wide variety of topics.  These sessions are designed for the whole family together and/or separate sessions on the same topic for various age groups.

 

 

Vibrant Faith @ Home is an ecumenical resource from Vibrant Faith that offers family resources that can be used either in the home or in gathered faith formation sessions.