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PARENTS, PLEASE: MY SEVENTH GRADE RELIGIOUS ED STUDENTS DO NOT KNOW THE ‘OUR FATHER’
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Several years into young motherhood, I volunteered to prepare parish second graders for their first Communion.
The weekly classes with 18 children often felt like 45-minute exercises in humility, but my goal was to ensure that when the children experienced their first encounter with the Flesh and Blood of Christ, they knew it really was Jesus, and that Jesus really did know them, love them, and long to be received into their bodies, hearts and minds.
Brief classes meant there wasn’t much time left to train the children in spiritual supplication, but I did guide them (week after week), through halting recitations of the “big three” prayers which form the bedrock of Catholic orisons — the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be.
I say “halting” because while the children remembered that we’d done this before, the prayers never flowed easily off their tongues. While I dedicated three distinct classes to teaching what all those unfamiliar and mysterious words meant, retention wasn’t happening.
So, when a mother angrily questioned why her daughter didn’t know the Our Father, I sassed back a little: “Well, I have 45 minutes a week with them. YOU have every day; are YOU teaching it to her? Are you praying with your kids? That’s actually your JOB, you know, to teach them how to pray by your own example. Are YOU praying?”
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The weekly classes with 18 children often felt like 45-minute exercises in humility, but my goal was to ensure that when the children experienced their first encounter with the Flesh and Blood of Christ, they knew it really was Jesus, and that Jesus really did know them, love them, and long to be received into their bodies, hearts and minds.
Brief classes meant there wasn’t much time left to train the children in spiritual supplication, but I did guide them (week after week), through halting recitations of the “big three” prayers which form the bedrock of Catholic orisons — the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be.
I say “halting” because while the children remembered that we’d done this before, the prayers never flowed easily off their tongues. While I dedicated three distinct classes to teaching what all those unfamiliar and mysterious words meant, retention wasn’t happening.
So, when a mother angrily questioned why her daughter didn’t know the Our Father, I sassed back a little: “Well, I have 45 minutes a week with them. YOU have every day; are YOU teaching it to her? Are you praying with your kids? That’s actually your JOB, you know, to teach them how to pray by your own example. Are YOU praying?”
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Parents, PLEASE: My seventh grade religious ed students do not know the ‘Our Father’ - OSV News
Brief classes meant there wasn't much time to train children in spiritual supplication, but I did guide them through halting recitations of the "big three" prayers -- the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be.
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From Socrates to Rome: How Classical Education Led Me to the Catholic Church...
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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I entered the Roman Catholic Church a little more than 20 years ago now, and my experiences in non-sectarian, public-charter classical education, first as a teacher, and then for a decade as a school leader, were a necessary condition for it. The soil of my soul was tilled by Socrates. To Tertullian’s exasperated question What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? I say: everything, bro. Everything.
There was also the influence of my wife and her family; the birth of my first daughter; my own Catholic-leaning (though officially ecumenical) Christian secondary education; basically the entirety of the Ignatius Press catalogue up to that point; a mildly-mystical experience of watching one of the red banners hanging from the church ceiling at Pentecost swaying in an air current that mysteriously affected only it and not the others; my first experiences singing Gregorian chant and attending the old Latin Mass; the pathos of having watched earlier that year live on broadcast television the final days and death of Pope John Paul II, the spectacle of a papal requiem Mass, that magnificent funeral homily by Cardinal Ratzinger, his zinger of a pre-conclave homily (the “dictatorship of relativism” one), and the thrill of seeing him step out on to the balcony as Benedict XVI on what just happened to be my son’s 3rd birthday.1
But prior to that, going deep into the practice and then the theory of Paideia-movement liberal education did so much to cure me of my prolonged and sophomoric Nietzschean delusions about the amor fati and the death of God.
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There was also the influence of my wife and her family; the birth of my first daughter; my own Catholic-leaning (though officially ecumenical) Christian secondary education; basically the entirety of the Ignatius Press catalogue up to that point; a mildly-mystical experience of watching one of the red banners hanging from the church ceiling at Pentecost swaying in an air current that mysteriously affected only it and not the others; my first experiences singing Gregorian chant and attending the old Latin Mass; the pathos of having watched earlier that year live on broadcast television the final days and death of Pope John Paul II, the spectacle of a papal requiem Mass, that magnificent funeral homily by Cardinal Ratzinger, his zinger of a pre-conclave homily (the “dictatorship of relativism” one), and the thrill of seeing him step out on to the balcony as Benedict XVI on what just happened to be my son’s 3rd birthday.1
But prior to that, going deep into the practice and then the theory of Paideia-movement liberal education did so much to cure me of my prolonged and sophomoric Nietzschean delusions about the amor fati and the death of God.
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How a Public School (Eventually) Made a Catholic Christian out of a Cocksure Nihilist
A reflection on how Socratic teaching, Mortimer Adler, and Flannery O'Connor led one teacher from public classical education to the Roman Catholic Church.
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The Schumer Shutdown
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These are the Senate Democrats who voted to reopen the government
After reaching a bipartisan deal, Senate Democrats finally gave Republicans the votes needed to advance a government funding measure.
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Looks like there are brave Democrats who know it is time to open the government - here are their names.
Washington — Seven Democratic senators and one independent who caucuses with Democrats voted late Sunday to reopen the government and end the shutdown.
Three of them have consistently voted for Republicans' short-term funding patch — which passed the House in mid-September — to keep the government funded until Nov. 21 at current levels. The measure narrowly advanced in the Senate after it secured the support of five more Democrats with the expectation that it will be amended to extend funding until Jan. 30.
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Praying for the Dead: The Sweetest of the Spiritual Works of Mercy...
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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The Catholic faith does not believe everyone who dies goes to heaven. It does believe that the dead may need our help and that our prayers and sacrifices can indeed help them.
Throughout the month of November, Catholics aim with special dedication to fulfill the sweetest of the spiritual works of mercy, which is to pray for our beloved dead.
We do so of course on Nov. 2, the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day), which this year happily fell on a Sunday. The Church remembers our beloved dead not just on this day, however, but makes suffrage for them throughout the year — and with special fervor in November.
We pray for the dead because we know in faith three truths: First, that contrary to the popular — and dangerous — presumption that everyone who dies automatically goes to a “better place,” the Catholic faith does not believe everyone who dies goes to heaven, especially immediately; second, that the dead may need our help; and third, that our prayers and sacrifices can indeed help them.
Regarding the first two truths, the Church teaches that to enter heaven, one must be completely attached to God and radically detached from sin and everything not of God. “Nothing unclean shall enter heaven,” the Book of Revelation affirms (21:27).
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Throughout the month of November, Catholics aim with special dedication to fulfill the sweetest of the spiritual works of mercy, which is to pray for our beloved dead.
We do so of course on Nov. 2, the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day), which this year happily fell on a Sunday. The Church remembers our beloved dead not just on this day, however, but makes suffrage for them throughout the year — and with special fervor in November.
We pray for the dead because we know in faith three truths: First, that contrary to the popular — and dangerous — presumption that everyone who dies automatically goes to a “better place,” the Catholic faith does not believe everyone who dies goes to heaven, especially immediately; second, that the dead may need our help; and third, that our prayers and sacrifices can indeed help them.
Regarding the first two truths, the Church teaches that to enter heaven, one must be completely attached to God and radically detached from sin and everything not of God. “Nothing unclean shall enter heaven,” the Book of Revelation affirms (21:27).
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Praying for the Dead: Sweetest of the Spiritual Works of Mercy
COMMENTARY: The Catholic faith does not believe everyone who dies goes to heaven. It does believe that the dead may need our help and that our prayers and sacrifices can indeed help them.
