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Faith In The Family; A Handbook For Parents
Parenting/Faith
Catholic Truth Society
May 2013
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This compact book by Anna Burke-Gaffney and Fr Marcus Holden summarises key aspects of faith in a question and answer format.
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“Name ONE thing you do to teach faith to your children?”
Pray Hail Mary and Our Father with my almost 2-year-old. And sing amazing Grace. We try to attend mass weekly as a family, but it has been a tough endeavor. So at the moment I have been concentrating on praying with her.
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ONE thing I do to teach faith to my children: we make prayer a normality in our lives. We’ve taught our son to pray when wakes, before each meal, and just before he goes to bed. He’s 2 years old now, and prayer has become habitual. He runs into his room after bath time, searching for the cross and Holy Family icon, and places it in front of him so we can all pray together. It’s a beautiful thing to watch, and proof that parents are the first educators of faith.
I like to pray with my baby even though he’s only tiny! I tell him Jesus loves him and we pray the rosary, chaplet of Divine Mercy & sing hymns with him. I want my baby boy growing up loving Christ and all he has done for us. I will be sharing my own love of Christ with him and hopefully he’ll for his own relationship when he is a little older
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We go to Mass, have daily prayer and so forth, but one thing I love to do is when the kids ask me about something, it could be anything, I always try and find a way to link it back to God so they can begin to understand that God is in everything, is everywhere and that we must, and can, trust Him – in the good and the bad because He loves us more than we love each other (and that’s a lot!).
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I guess I just try to keep our faith as an integral part of our lives, rather than just a habit. We try to encourage an interest and love of God, the Church and the Saints.
Other than regular Mass, daily prayers and reading Biblical books i like to make my children aware of God’s constant presence. When my daughter was frightened at night time when it was dark , I like to remind her to pray to Jesus and ask Him to send His angels to look after her. She finds this very calming.
One thing we do to teach our children the faith is to make it part of everyday conversations.
I think just making it part of life is the best way to go. We go to mass on Sundays (and might make it to more daily masses once the youngest doesn’t need her morning nap anymore) – praying before meals and when something is bother us. I tell my kids that they are gifts from God, we talk about Heaven if the thought of death is bothering them, we talk about how the Earth was made, and about the universe and how God is everywhere.
I included them in my daily prayers and ofcourse take them to mass.
It’s harder for me as we had to leave a violent father. So for me my children have been taught from birth all about their faith. My boys love our mamma Mary and we always ask her to protect us in our everyday life.
My main thing I do to show my children our faith is my example in life. No matter what our family goes through we always thank God for everything and for protection.
(This ontop of our daily masses, adoration prayers and love for the Saints. )
Would love any books that would help me raising boys with the struggles of single parenthood. 🙂 god bless
We pray grace before meals. Talk to each other about the day and what we can look forward to.
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