MORAL DEVELOPMENT – LIFE IN CHRIST

Moral Development is our response to God who loved us first. As His children, we desire to live as God has asked. The moral life is not an arbitrary list of rules. Living life as God reveals is living a fully human life.

In Pre Communion, the child should:

1. Have a sense of being loved by the important people in his/her life.

2. Be aware of his/her uniqueness and that he/she is loved by God.

3. Realize that there are right and wrong choices and be able to express “I’m sorry” to those injured by wrong choices (i.e., God, family, classmates, and neighbour).

4. Understand that we must avoid wrong because it is sinful. Sin breaks our relationship with God.

Sin breaks our relationship with others.

5. Realize that he/she is responsible for decisions and actions in caring for God’s gifts of creation, especially human life.

6. Be introduced to models of love and service within his/her own community, priests, religious, lay ministers of the parish, as well as traditional examples like the Holy Family and the lives of the saints. They should see how real people love God back.