God created everything.   All that God created is good. God knows and loves everyone.  Today we will learn that nothing existed before God.  God created everything out of perfect love—the heavens and the earth.  God rejoices in all his creation, but he especially rejoices in his creation of you. 

Today, we will hear the story of how the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God and hurt their friendship with him.  We will see that this is how sin came into the world, and we will look at how sin still affects us today.  Finally, we will learn that Jesus came to save us from sin so that we can be close friends with God again! 
 

Today, we will learn how much God wants a relationship with us.  We will learn the stories of Noah and Abraham and see how God formed covenants with them.  God cares for his people and wants them to be close to him.  We can see God’s love at work in each of these stories!
 

Today we will continue learning the story of salvation.  We will look at the ways God reached out to his people through Moses and helped them to live the lives he created them for.  God gave his people the Ten Commandments to help them live holy lives.  We will also see more covenants God made with Moses and David and, finally, through his own Son, Jesus.

Today, we will study the Person of Jesus, the Messiah promised to Adam and Eve long ago!  We will talk about Jesus’ life, his teaching, and his healing miracles.  We will also look at how Jesus saves the world from sin and why he is the only person who could rescue us from the devil and restore our relationship with God.
 

Today we will learn about the Church, where it came from, and how it leads us to Jesus.  The Church is our home as a family of faith and our guide on our own journey to heaven.  The Church helps us to be who God made us to be and to know him better.

In our last lesson, we learned that Jesus gave us the Church.  Today we will learn how the sacraments help us to be close to Jesus and receive God’s grace.
 

Today, we will learn about the seven sacraments that Jesus gives us through the Church.  We will also come to understand the different categories of sacraments and what each category means. We will pay special attention to the Sacraments of Initiation and Healing and the way they help us be who we were created to be.
 

Today, we will learn that God always loves us, even when we do something wrong.  We will see that the Sacrament of Reconciliation is the sacrament of God’s mercy, and we will learn what happens when we receive the sacrament.
 

Today we will look at how important we are to God and why the Sacrament of Reconciliation is so important for us.  The sacrament teaches us about God and his mercy.  It returns us to him.  And it purifies our hearts so that we are ready to receive Jesus in Holy Communion!
 

Today, we will learn about how to get ready to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation.  We will also learn what happens during the sacrament.  This lesson will help us to be confident when we receive the sacrament.

Now that we have learned how to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation and what it does for us, we will learn about our call to holiness.  We will also learn how Reconciliation helps us live happy and holy lives so that we can be the person God created us to be!