Eighth Grade Religion:

Purpose and Objectives

CREED:

To invite the students to open their hearts and minds to the truths if God’s revelation and to develop persons of faith whose lives reflect the message and values of Christ.

To encourage the students to examine more closely the dynamic teachings of their Catholic faith be placing before them the truths of the faith in a clear and meaningful way.

To help the students explore as fully and richly as possible the depths of the gifts and the meaning of the gospel so as to become evangelizers of the word.

MORALITY:

To encourage the students to focus seriously on what kind of person they wish to become and to place before them for reflection and study the moral teachings of Jesus and the Church.

To provide an in-depth presentation of the commandments, the Beatitudes, the virtues, and the teachings of the Church on moral issues so that the students have firm ground on which to make moral decisions.

To have the students recognize Jesus as their hero and model and to discover in following him what it means to be happy, free and fully human.