Preparing for Holy communion

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Hello all,

Please help your little one to study about the lesson summary each Sunday. Help them to memorize the prayers you get by email. Your help

and cooperation is of utmost importance in preparing them to receive

our savior worthily.

 

Baptism

We talked about the Sacrament of Baptism in today's class. In Baptism we are born again of water and Spirit. During Baptism we also receive confirmation and the Holy Eucharist and together they are called the Sacraments of initiation. The Sacrament of Baptism is the first step in a life long journey of commitment and discipleship. Due to sins of our parents, all of us are born in sin. We call this sinful state "Original sin". In Baptism we become children of God and are no longer slaves of sin. In Baptism we are set free from sin and begin our life in Jesus. So Baptism is an entrance to Christian life. The meaning of Baptism is immersion or bath. We are dead to the sins and born to eternal life.

 

Baptism is the Sacrament that sets us free from original and actual sin, if any, and makes us children of God, members of the church and heirs to heaven.

 

Fruits of Baptism

Sets us free from sin

Gives us divine life

Makes us children of God

Makes us members of church (Members of the Body of Christ)

Make us heirs to heaven.

 

 Isn't Baptism wonderful? It makes a clean sweep of everything.  Sin and its consequences disappear when God comes to our soul, just as darkness disappears when the light is turned on.

 

 The point to be emphasized, and never to be forgotten, is that we are potentially in heaven the moment we are baptized.

 

  

Start memorizing the 10 commandments   1 I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt not have strange gods before me. 2 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 3 Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day. 4 Honor thy Father and Mother. 5 Thou shalt not kill. 6 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7 Thou shalt not steal. 8 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 9 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife. 10 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods. 5 precepts of the church

1. "You shall attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor."  (The faithful are required to attend the celebration of the Eucharist every Lord's Day .(Saturday vigil or Sunday    Mass) and the holy days of obligation as established in the liturgical calendar, unless excused for a serious reason) 2. "You shall confess your sins at least once a year." 3. "You shall receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the Easter season."  4. "You shall observe the prescribed days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church."  5. "You help to provide for the needs of the Church, each according to his own ability.”