Teaching Tiny Catholics: January 4th Class

Hello Parents and Families,

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During today's class we talked about Reconciliation.

We talked about how sometimes we do things that do not make us feel good inside. When we do something that makes us sad inside or not proud of ourselves it is called a sin. We talked about how we all make sins because we are human and nobody is perfect. We talked about how Jesus will always love us no matter what we do because he died on the cross for our sins.

We talked about temptation and how we can ask an adult to help us take away the things that tempt us.

We watched a little video that helped to explain Reconciliation a bit more. It talked about how when you sin you are pulling your hand away from Jesus but Jesus never turns away from us.

We discussed different kinds of sins and how those are the things that we tell Jesus we are sorry for doing. We talked about how when we want to say I'm sorry to Jesus we can go to Reconciliation at church and talk to Father Pat.

We wrote down in our Reconciliation Prayer something that we feel sorry for and how we could make a better choice next time. We told the children that they can take this paper to Reconciliation to help them when they tell Father Pat what they are sorry for.

We also told them that they can take their Reconciliation Booklet because on page 11 is the Act of Contrition Prayer. If they forget the booklet there will be copies of the prayer in the Chapel.

We read the book "Martha doesn't say sorry!" by Samantha Berger. This book showed the children how important it is to say I'm Sorry when we do something that we shouldn't have done. It ties right in to the idea of how we can say I'm sorry at our Reconciliation.