Religion

INSTRUCTORS: | Carmen Johnson | Cheryl Rambour | Tom Salyard | Father Andrew

(Full Year Meets Every Other Day)
RELIGION 7 Grade 7 Required

This course focuses the students’ attention on the person of Jesus Christ as the heart of our faith. Students will examine the Gospels in order to explore the significant moments in Jesus’ life as well as the response of His disciples. Students will further reflect upon His presence in the Church today and also in the life of the individual baptized Christian, especially in his or her own call to holiness.

(Full Year Meets Every Other Day)
RELIGION 8 Grade 8 Required

This course is designed to help make the student more aware of his or her response to the faith. Particular attention is given to the role of the Holy Spirit, to the life of the Church, and to the individual’s own responsibility in living out the faith. Since most students will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation during their eighth grade year, special attention is paid to the significance of this sacrament in the life of the believer.

(Full Year – 10 Credits)
RELIGION 9 Grade 9 Required

This course focuses on Christian Prayer and draws from Part IV of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as its principal source. Students are invited to delve into the mystery of the faith by believing it, celebrating it, and living it in the midst of a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God. To deepen their knowledge of God who has revealed Himself to us, this course will also focus on Scripture and enable the students to approach the Word of God with understanding of mind and heart.

(Full Year – 10 Credits)
RELIGION 10 Grade 10 Required

This course focuses on the Celebration of the Christian Mystery, particularly in the liturgy and the sacraments, and draws from the Part II of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as its principal source. Students will learn how the Church proclaims and celebrates the mystery of Christ in each of the Seven Sacraments so that the believer might live in Christ and proclaim Him to the world. The Church’s relationship with the world will also be explored through the study of the Church’s history and development over the course of time, even to the modern day until the Second Coming of Christ.

(Full Year – 10 Credits)
RELIGION 11 Grade 11 Required

This course focuses on the Profession of Faith – the essential beliefs of the Church, as enunciated in the Nicene Creed - and draws from Part I of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as its principal source. Students will search for understanding and truth as they examine the creed professed by the Church to be the divine revelation of God. They will deepen their awareness of humanity’s search for truth by exploring the philosophies and tenets of some of the world’s other major religions. In this they will better understand how the Catholic Church communicates the fullness of the truth to the world today.

(Full Year – 10 Credits)
RELIGION 12 Grade 12 Required

This course focuses on Christian morality and what it means to possess Life in Christ, drawing from Part III of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as its principal source. Students will examine the moral foundations of the faith and how God’s grace enables the believer to live a virtuous life, discerning between good and evil. Particular questions of morality will be discussed. Vocational discernment and practical steps for living the faith in the future will be addressed as students prepare for the married life, the priesthood, the single life, or the consecrated/religious life.