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Wondering what everyone does for family Bible time. We have lots of other faith readings and activities, but none of our resources include actual time with the Bible.
(We have Baltimore Catechism, The King of the Golden City, some Bible stories from a Children's Bible, etc.).
Do your children memorize passages? I've considered getting either the Scripture Memory System or the GOAL Bible Study from SCM, but I hesitate because I don't know if they are Catholic or Protestant in nature.
Suggestions??
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Not sure if you do this already, but the Liturgy of the Hours has daily psalms and readings from the bible. You could just do Morning and Evening Prayer. There are canticles that are repeated daily, so the kiddos would probably memorize them quickly. There is a 4 week psalter so eventually over time they will probably remember them or at least be familiar with them.
I'm not familiar with either of those systems you mentioned, but you may be able to use them and just use the Catholic translations of the Bible instead (it does make a difference). Also if they are protestant (I don't know) they will not have any of the deuterocanonical books in them.
Maybe a good starting point is some key passages that are especially helpful for times of sadness and joy (like select psalms), as well as ones for apologetic purposes. I heard about some book once on the radio about "100 Bible verses Every Catholic Should Know" or something like that. Maybe you could start there?
Also, with my kids someday, hehe, I will have them memorize important passages like the 10 commandments, the beatitudes, John 3:16, John 1, Matthew 28:19-20 (the great commission) and the like. HTH! This was a good reminder to me to figure out a way to do this too. As a protestant growing up, most of this was taught to us in Sunday School. DH and I have just been discussing how we will have to make more of an effort to teach the Bible to our children than our parents did, bc (at least in our diocese) children are not taught the Bible much. :(
As a side thing, to help your kids get more familiar with using the bible (finding passages), you could do "sword drills" where you announce a passage and the kid who finds it first "wins" and gets to read the passage. We did that a lot growing up. HTH!
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If you're looking for apologetic type passages for memorization.. you might like Friendly Defenders Flash Cards You can use them as flash cards but you can also use the information on them and look up the verses in the Bible.
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We are doing a family prayer/Bible time right before bed. We pray one decade of the rosary and read a Bible story. We do other religious stuff at other times, but we do this every night. It is really nice to have this time as a family and everyone seems to enjoy it. We are using a Catholic children's Bible I got at the IHM conference.
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We go over the Sunday (and major feast days) readings every week.
While we don't do much memorization, I do make a point of noting the shorter biblical quotes in the mass such as the gospel acclaimation or the entrance and communion antiphons and how they fit the overall theme for that particular Sunday and they would be good possibilitirs for memorization- particularly when tied to the overall theme.
My reasoning is that these are the bible readings that the Church considers most important for communal listening so this is a good place to start our familial study (and it's easy for me to find commentaries which have helped me guide our discussions).
BTW The Open Wednesday Sunday sheets have been very useful in engaging my younger and busier children.
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We just began subscribing to Living Faith for kids, which follows the Church's daily readings and gives a brief devotional for each day. The devotional usually is based on a particular verse from the readings, and it helps me bring the message down to their level. I've been trying to read it each morning after breakfast, when we're all together. My oldest is in second grade.
As far as memorizing is concerned, I would like to start doing this, as well. I just heard about this A-Z Memory Verse program from Johnette Benkovic, but I haven't ordered it. Looks good on the website, though! 
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Devoted21 wrote:
| We just began subscribing to Living Faith for kids, which follows the Church's daily readings and gives a brief devotional for each day. The devotional usually is based on a particular verse from the readings, and it helps me bring the message down to their level. I've been trying to read it each morning after breakfast, when we're all together. My oldest is in second grade. |
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That looks great, and a lot less expesive than Magnifikids, which we had subscribed to before. I think we'll start here. Thanks for the recommendation!
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We do our main family prayer/Bible time in the morning as the start of our school day during the school year, and in the evening during the summer. We follow the Gospel lectionary readings very loosely, trying to stay near the lectionary readings, but not skipping over bits or jumping back and forth. Our schedule is posted here for anyone who is interested in trying it. (Center column, link titled "Prayer Packet: 17th Week Ordinary"; Bible readings on pdf page 3.)
It's probably strange, but this prayer/Bible time is probably the most fun time we spend together as a family- I bet even my teenagers would agree! A favorite part is trying to answer dad's questions about the readings, or thinking aloud about what the readings mean or how they apply. The younger kids are so excited when they can finally real well enough to be included in the read-around.
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sunshinyliving wrote:
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Since we don't use a formal program I have nothing to suggest, but this above comment stood out to me.
The time we spend together with our Bibles is such a happy time together. There is a lot of laughing, hands up to answer questions first, big smiles, and happy faces. My children are always disappointed when this time together comes to a close. They actually beg to continue.
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