Dear Parent:
Right after your children were baptized the priest offered this prayer
for you as fathers and mothers: "God is the giver of all life human and divine. May He bless the fathers of these children.
With their wives they will be the first teachers of their children in the ways of faith. May they also be the best teachen
bearing witness to the faith by what they say and do, in Christ Jesus our Lord."
In addition to instructing your children in Christian truth, we welcome
the opportunity to assist you in fulfilling your primary obligation to help you teach your children to walk in ways of faith.
This can only be done when each family places Jesus Christ and His teachings at the center of their lives through Sunday worship,
family prayer and daily living of the Christian message.
We urge you to consider regular attendance at Sunday Mass with your
children as an essential part of their religious education and of all our faith journeys.
We look forward to genuine cooperation with you in communicating Catholic
Christian values to your children. We need to pray together, talk together and plan together. In that way we can draw fully
from Sacred Scripture and Church teachings and work to support each other in instilling these values in our children who need
them so much in today's world.
This excellent booklet will help all of us to establish our goals
and to cooperate in fulfilling them. May God bless us in the work of Christian Education which we carry on in His name.
