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Amanda
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Posted: Oct 19 2009 at 6:59am \| IP Logged

I started to put this on the religious ed board, but after I finished writing it down, I realized it belonged here.

I was looking through the papers my 12-year-old ds brought home from CCD and was shocked. There were a bunch of pages from a Protestant website talking about accepting Jesus as your savior, etc. They included lines like: "I'm not talking about whether you attend church or have been baptized or if your parents are Christians. Those things are good, but they cannot take away even one sin. He wants you to believe and receive Him."

Then there was a page from an LDS site with a definition of faith that they were to copy down onto a notecard.

I've e-mailed my DRE and I'm sure this will be taken care of, but please pray for the catechist and for all of us involved. Our parish just consolidated with another one, and the catechist is from the other parish. She's been teaching CCD for 8 years! I can see that this situation could be a cause for feelings of not belonging to the new parish for her and others. (I know it's made me feel less safe in the new parish, in a strange way.) It will need to be handled delicately.

I'm going off to read some thoroughly Catholic stuff to make myself feel better--maybe my Catechism.

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Posted: Oct 19 2009 at 11:06am \| IP Logged

Oh my! Praying that the Holy Spirit will be at work in this situation.

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Posted: Oct 19 2009 at 1:02pm \| IP Logged

I will pray that the Holy Spirit will assist all of you so that charity and Truth prevail!

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Posted: Oct 19 2009 at 6:31pm \| IP Logged

Praying!

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Posted: Oct 20 2009 at 1:37am \| IP Logged

Prayers coming.

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