Secondary Religious Education

Secondary Religious Education

Secondary
Religious Education

Current YCDSB Grade 7 & 8 Students

Growing in faith and purpose.

Our Catholic schools are called to lovingly embrace both the “gathered and the scattered”; to reveal to all an inherent dignity of the human person rooted in our very essence and image of God (imago Dei); and to echo, in respect and freedom, the invitation of Christ to “Come, follow me” (Matthew 4.19).

Being a Christian
is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. (217)

Pope Benedict XVI
Encyclical Letter
Deus Caritas Est (God is Love, 2005)

To this encounter, the cooperation of the Catholic school in the evangelizing mission of the Church remains vital.

As such, all curricula participate in this proclamation, but nowhere is this witness more explicit than in the
religious education programs.

All courses in Secondary Religious Education are characterized by the following five big ideas:

01.

Religious Knowledge and Literacy

02.

Catholic-Christian Anthropology

03.

Theological Reflection

04.

Living Moral Lives

05.

Celebrating in the Faith Community
Includes teaching, understanding, and using appropriately the language of the faith and Tradition. Includes the understanding of the Catholic Tradition regarding what it means to be human/a person. Includes the Christian/human search for meaning and understanding of life in the context of our relationship with God. Includes developing one’s conscience in order that sound moral choices and judgments in both the personal and social spheres of life can be made. Includes the various ways the Church expresses its faith in worship and prayer, primarily through actions that demonstrate thankful awareness of God’s presence in the world.
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