·          Describes grace as an share in God’s life, a special friendship with God

·          Explains grace as a gift from God enabling persons to live in Christian harmony

·          Explains that Jesus becomes really present in the Eucharistic Liturgy (Mass)

·          Shows Mary as a woman of great faith, the model disciple

·          Describes the Church as a community of caring, loving, faithful people responding to God’s invitation to be God’s People

·          Describes mortal sin as destroying a person’s relationship with God and venial sin as a weakening of one’s relationship with God

·          Recites, with prompts, the Ten Commandments and gives some examples of how Christians can act in accord with them

·          Explains that Jesus gave us two Great Commandments

·          Love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul and with all your mind.

·          You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

·          Identify the Beatitudes as teachings of Jesus that show us how we can be truly happy and share happiness with others

·          Identify Holy Days of Obligation from a list

·          Develops awareness of death, judgment, eternal life – heaven, hell, purgatory      

·          Identifies the Corporal Works of Mercy

·          Identifies the Spiritual Works of Mercy

·          Recalls that God has been and is active in our world

·          Gives examples of how the Commandments relate to his/he life and experiences

·          Describes a diocese as the local Church headed by a bishop

·          Explains roles of persons in the Church (pope, bishops, priest, religious, laity)

·          Identifies the Ten Commandments from a list

·          Recognizes that love is key to a covenant with God

·          Reflects on the need to pray before making decisions

·          Realize that God calls people to act responsibility

·          Defines conscience as the judgment of reason which indicates whether an act should be avoided because it is wrong, or done because it is good

·          Explains how rules help people live in harmony

·          Recognizes peace as the result of legislating and keeping just laws

·          Explains obedience to rules/laws as giving a sense of Christian identity and belonging to the Church

·          Explains the difference between sin, mistakes and accidents

·          Realizes that our feeling and emotions are gifts of God, but they are not always indicators of right and wrong

·          Defines sin as freely choosing not to love God, others, or self

·          Describes the difference between mortal and venial sin

·          Gives examples of how reconciliation happens

·          Understands WWJD - What Would Jesus Do? As a way to make good decisions

·          Identifies special needs of particular groups of people(elderly, persons with disabilities, the poor)

·          Recognizes ways to settle conflicts through non-violent means

·          Realizes that service to identifies him/her as a person of God

·          Recognizes equality and complementarily between male and female

·          Knows that the Ten Commandments and Beatitudes are moral norms for Catholic community

·          Recognizes how racial stereotyping can be harmful and demeaning affecting one’s relationship with others

·          Describes way to help others in the classroom and in the great community

·          Recognizes that the study, knowledge and practice of his/her faith is integral to being a Catholic

·          Sees individual talents s gifts used in service of others

·          Participates in class service projects e.g. collecting food for the poor, writing letters to the elderly, raising money for missions

·          Identifies saints as our models of Christian witness

·          Cites examples of activates which really are the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy

·          Expresses care and concern through almsgiving serving others in Advent and Lent

·          Reaches out and loves those who are hurting

Awareness of Others

·          Recognizes a real human need to love and be loved, to forgive and to be forgiven

·          Experiences community through mutual sharing of faith, worship and service

·          Recognizes the communal celebration of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection as a celebration of our life, expected death and resurrection

·          Knows that the Ten Commandments and Beatitudes are moral norms for the Catholic community

·          Distinguishes between good aspects of one’s relationship to peer groups and potentially harmful pressures

·          Cites examples of how families, friends and married persons express love

·          Analyzes consequences of not being faithful in relationship with others

·          Appreciate the Church as a universal community which includes persons of ALL ages, races, cultures and abilities

·          Analyzes how sexual stereotyping can affect one’s own identity and relationship with others

·          Tells ways to welcome new members to community

Awareness Spiritual Development

·          Recognizes the New Testament as faith documents of the early Church

·          Learns and explains the Beatitudes which teach Christians how to live

·          Focuses on Jesus as the fulfillment of God’s promises

·          Participates in prayers and hymns of the Liturgy

·          Experiences brief silent and/or spontaneous prayer

·          Identifies prayers of adoration, petition, intercession, contrition, thanksgiving and praise

·          Prays with hymns

·          Familiar with the mysteries Rosary

·          Participates in prayer services

·          Able to practices in an examination of conscience

·          Aware one may pray for direction in choice of vocation

·          Recites formal prayers

Ø  Sign of the Cross

Ø  The Lord’s Prayer

Ø  Hail Mary

Ø  Glory Be to the Father

Ø  Grace Before Meals

Ø  Grace After Meals

Ø  Prayer of Sorrow

Ø  Apostles’ Creed – with prompts

·          Experiences provide for a renewed and deepening understanding of Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist as sacraments of initiation

·          Identifies of the Sacrament of Penance as one of the ways we receive God’s forgiveness when we have wounded our relationship with Him

·          Experiences the possibility of seeing Jesus in others

·          Opportunity is provide for community worship

·          Defines the Mass as a memorial sacrifice, a meal and a prayer of thanksgiving

·          Experiences the liturgical seasons of the year, e.g. advent, Christmas, Easter, Triduum as well as Ordinary Time

·          Recognizes the Easter Triduum as the central celebration of the Church Year

·          Celebrates lives of saints as good Christian models for his/her life

·          Experiences devotions such as the Way of the Cross, for St. Francis, etc.

·          Services to celebrate Advent Season and Lenten are provided

·          Recognizes elements of Christmas Season

·          Recognizes elements of Lent

·          Recognizes elements of Holy Week

·          Recognizes elements of Easter

·          Recognizes elements of honoring the saints

·          Recognizes elements of Mary in the church

·          Recognizes elements of Holy Days

Student creates portraits of Mary

Advent projects

Lenten projects

Community Outreach with food or monitory collections

School Masses

School Prayer Services