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Religious Education: Good News for Living

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Religious Education encourages students to reflect more deeply on the fundamental questions of life. It helps to prepare their minds and hearts for the life-giving truth of God’s revelation, and invites them into relationship with the person of Jesus Christ through a knowledge of and reflection on the Pascal Mystery. It forms young people as they learn to discern and to live the message of the Gospel by:

  • growing to fullness of life within a conscious, transformative relationship with God through Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit.
  • acquiring the skills of biblical and religious literacy: inquiring into, reflecting on and responding to the Word of God.
  • learning to act with social responsibility and witnessing to the Reign of God.
  • having an understanding of belonging and purpose within the Catholic faith community.
  • learning to participate in the liturgical and sacramental life of the Catholic faith community.
  • acting with integrity and responsibility.
  • developing a sense of connectedness in the local and world communities.
  • growing as people of justice and peace.
  • developing an understanding of themselves as spiritual beings, created, liberated, gifted and loved by God.
  • being empowered as people of hope and resilience.
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