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Claire F
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Do you have your children memorize scripture?
My evangelical friends are very into scripture memorization. I've never worked at memorizing scripture - it wasn't something I was exposed to as a child (although my faith formation as a child wasn't exactly comprehensive).
Do you emphasize scripture memorization? Do you do it at all?
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Hello Claire,
Yes, my family enjoys memorizing scripture.
Here are two threads from the archives:
Memorizing Scripture
memorizing scripture
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Hi,
Caveat...I was raised Baptist so scripture memorization was huge. So, it's somehow ingrained in me and I do believe it has great value. In fact, I've heard many times that "those Protesants" sure know more about the Bible than "those Catholics" and these are words are always spoken from Catholics in leadership positions.
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I was glad to see Michaela link to those past thread - I had remembered that there were some good discussions in the past.
Joanna Bogle had this article on the benefits of memorizing prayers, songs, scripture.
It definitely is a worthwhile endeavor to promote with our children. I wish I had done it myslef when young. It can supplement the overall learning of the stories of scripture. I think that even with memorizing, it is important to understand whatever is memorized in context. Because proof text memorzation can be used out of context and not be saying what someone is quoting it to mean. So the more we know it all around the better.
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Thanks very much for the responses :). I think this is something I'd like to start gently working on with my kids in addition to the other faith formation activities we're doing.
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Claire,
Though Simply Charlotte Mason is not a Catholic group, I really enjoy the way Sonya describes her their approach to Scripture Memorization System. I've always wanted to implement this system.
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I, too, and a former Baptist, and I participated in "Bible Drill" and memorized a great deal of scripture as a child.
I am implementing some scripture memory this year, and I decided that my "Catholic" approach to implementation would be to memorize the scripture that is prominent in the Divine Office and Liturgy of the Hours.
So, we have begun with Psalm 95, which is the most common Invitatory Psalm. I plan to work through the Magnificat as well as the Canticle of Zachariah next.
My reasoning was related to Mary's point about memorizing things in context. I found that a lot of the smaller "verse" type memorization is chosen and implemented as a Protestant apologetics type tool. I wanted the scripture memory to be more "prayerful."
This also means it eventually serves as a tool for our family praying together.
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I love that approach Lindsay - I'm going to have to consider how best to make it work for us. I want it to have context and be both a learning tool and a prayerful exercise.
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CrunchyMom wrote:
I am implementing some scripture memory this year, and I decided that my "Catholic" approach to implementation would be to memorize the scripture that is prominent in the Divine Office and Liturgy of the Hours.
So, we have begun with Psalm 95, which is the most common Invitatory Psalm. I plan to work through the Magnificat as well as the Canticle of Zachariah next. |
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After learning about the Liturgy of the Hours a couple years ago, this is what direction I took too. We did the Canticle of Zachariah last year and we're doing Psalm 95 right now too.
We also memorize verses that pertain to the Eucharist during First Communion prep years....but since it's been non-stop-first-communion-prep for the past 4 years, I thought we should probably branch out a bit. 
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This is how we do it. While I don't think that memorizing huge chunks of the Bible is necessary, I do think it gives kids a firm foundation in their faith. We also memorize things other than Scripture (prayers, poems, etc). I saw Andrew Pudewa speak at the IHM conference and he made a lot of sense when it came to memorization. I have already seen an improvement in the way my kids speak. I can only imagine that it will help their writing as well later on. SCM's method is very easy to implement (although we rarely do this on the weekends and definitely miss days during the week). We have so few things we know that they are very manageable without a system right now!!! We do calendar every morning where we discuss the days of the week, numbers and weather. We do memorization right afterward. It works well for us. 
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I happened upon a Scripture memorization program several years ago that looks good: "A-Z Memory Verses" by Tamara S. Woell. The publisher is Johnette Benkovic's Simon Peter Press. We haven't incorporated it much - because it is a definite "program" and more structured than I have looked for so far. But I'm hanging on to it (for "someday" ) because I know it's a trustworthy, Catholic program. Haven't looked at the others recommended in this thread, but wanted to mention this one as another option.
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Claire
Thank you for starting this thread, and thank you everyone for your suggestions and enthusiasm, I'm feeling really keen to implement this here. 
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