Grade – 11 & 12 Curriculum

Year One

BOOK ONE – UNDERSTANDING THE CATECHISM - MORALITY

Chapter 1 – Basics of Catholic Morality: Be Who You Are!

· Christian moral living

· A Christian view of a human person

· God created us for happiness

· Special role of the Beatitudes

· Freedom

· Free will

· Morality

· Spiritual characteristics

Chapter 2 – Moral Acts, Passions and Conscience

· Basics of Catholic morality as expressed in Sacred Scripture and Church teachings

· The sources of morality: object chosen, intention, circumstances, role of passions

· Moral conscience

· Two principles of conscience

· An examination of conscience

· DECIDE method of conscience formation

· The role passions play in influencing our moral decision-making

Chapter 3 – Virtues and Sin

· The virtues and moral life

· The cardinal virtues

· The theological virtues

· Gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit

· Sin – original and personal sin, mortal sin, venial sin

· Vices

· Sin increases

· Understanding sin as a failure to love, directed to God, neighbor, or self

· Our social nature: A key ingredient to moral living

· The person and society

· Four fundamental truths of social justice

Chapter 4 – Law, Grace, Church

· Identify the terms Decalogue, grace, justification, merit,

· Precepts of the Church

· The moral Law

· Eternal law

· Natural law

· Revealed law

· Understand the relationship between grace, justification, merit, and holiness

· Distinguish between the several types of grace

· Familiarize themselves with the words of the Ten Commandments

Chapter 5 – First Three Commandments: Loving God Above All

· The First Commandment

· Faith, Hope, and Love

· The virtue of religion

· Offenses against faith – heresy, apostasy, schism

· Offenses against hope – despair

· Offenses against love – religious indifference, neglecting of refusing God’s love, outright hatred of God

· Violations of the First Commandment – superstition, idolatry, divination, atheism, sacrilege, and agnosticism

· The Second Commandment

· Values taught by the Second Commandment

· Actions contrary to the Second Commandment – perjury and blasphemy

· The Third Commandment

· The values taught by the Third Commandment

· Keeping Sunday holy

Chapter 6 – The Fourth Commandment: Loving the Family

· Honor, Respect, Obedience

· Honoring parents

· The family in God’s plan

· The Domestic Church

· Governments and the family

· Duties and responsibilities

· The duties of children

· The duties of parents

· The duties of civil authorities and citizens

Chapter 7 – The Fifth Commandment: Love and Respect Life

· The sacredness of human life

· God is the author of life

· Defense of ones own life

· Capital punishment

· Actions Contrary to the Fifth Commandment: murder, abortion, euthanasia, and suicide

· Respect for the dignity of persons

· Spiritual life of others

· Healthy lifestyle

· Medical and scientific research

· Integrity of the human body

· Caring for the dying and the dead

· Working for peace

· Anger and hatred, war, arms race

Chapter 8 – The Sixth and Ninth Commandments: Respect Sexuality

· The mystery of human love and communion

· Human sexuality

· The virtue of chastity

· The pure of heart

· The virtues of modesty and purity

· Actions contrary to the virtue of chastity: masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution, rape, and homosexual acts

· Marriage: the marriage covenant – fidelity, fecundity, contraception

· Offenses against the marriage covenant: concupiscence, adultery, divorce, polygamy, incest, and free union

Chapter 9 – The Seventh and Tenth Commandments: Live Justly

· Justice and charity

· The virtue of temperance

· Covetousness, greed, avarice, and envy

· Respect for another’s property: theft, slavery, gambling, stewardship

· Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church

· Peace and Justice

· The foundations of the social order

· Work

· Global solidarity

· Special love for the poor

· Works of mercy

Chapter 10 – The Eighth Commandment: Speak and Live the Truth

· Truth

· God is Truth

· Jesus, “The Truth”

· Dishonoring the Truth and the Eighth Commandment: lying, hypocrisy, bragging, false witness and perjury, rash judgment, detraction and calumny, irony, gossip, flatter, adulation, complaisance

· Society and the truth

· Truth and media

· Truth, beauty, and art

· Living the Ten Commandments

BOOK TWO – UNDERSTANDING THE CATECHISM – PRAYER

Chapter 1 – Cultivating the Soil

· What is Prayer?

· Recognizing God in the ordinary

· Prayer as God’s Gift

· Humility

· Prayer as Covenant

· Prayer as Communion

Chapter 2 – The Revelation of Prayer: Our Yearning for God

· The universal call to prayer

· Our ancestors’ experience of God through prayer

· Creation

· Abraham: the Prayer of Faith

· Moses: the Prayer of Intercession

· David: the Prayer of the People of God

· Elijah: the Prayer of Conversion

· The Psalmist: the Prayer of Assembly

Chapter 3 – In the Fullness of Time

· God is revealed in Christ

· Jesus prays – “Abba, Father”

· The Spirit guides us

· Jesus models prayer

· Prayer of Solitude

· Prayer of Thanksgiving

· Prayer of Inclusion

· Jesus teachers us how to pray

· Prayer of Conversion

· Prayer in Jesus’ Name

· The Prayer of Mary

Chapter 4 – The Church, a Living History of Gratitude

· The Prayer of the Church

· Forms of Prayer

§ Blessing and Adoration

§ Petition

§ Intercession

§ Thanksgiving

§ Praise

Chapter 5 – Living Water

· Fed by the Holy Spirit

· The Spirit is our Teacher

· The practice of prayer

· Fed by the Word of God

· Reading Sacred Scripture

· Meditating on Sacred Scripture

· Fed by the Liturgy of the Church

· Prayer of the Church

· The Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Love

· Importance of the significance of faith, hope, and love in a Christian’s life of prayer

· Praying always

Chapter 6 – The Way of Prayer

· The living tradition of Prayer

· Words, signs, and symbolic actions

· Singing and music

· Art, sacred images, and iconography

· The journey to God: The way of Prayer

· Prayer to the Father

· Prayer to Jesus

· Prayer to the Holy Spirit

· Prayer to and in Communion with Mary: the Hail Mary, and the Rosary

Chapter 7 – Guides for Prayer Along the Way

· Companions: basic questions, seeking advice, a cloud of witnesses

· Servants of prayer: the Christian family, ordained ministers, religious orders, catechists, prayer groups, spiritual directors

· Places favorable for prayer: personal prayer space, church, monasteries and convents, pilgrimages

Chapter 8 – The Life of Prayer

· The rhythm of prayer: daily prayer, Eucharistic Prayer, liturgical year

· Expressions of Prayer

· Vocal Prayer

· The Prayer of Meditation

· Methods of Meditation: scripture, sacred images, contemplation

· The battle of prayer

· Obstacles of Prayer

· Trust and perseverance

· It is always possible to pray

· Prayer is vital and necessary

· Prayer and the Christian life are inseparable

· The Prayer of the Hours of Jesus

Chapter 9 – The Lord’s Prayer

· Prayer of Jesus

· Jesus teaches us to pray

· The fundamental Christian Prayer

· At the Center of Sacred Scripture

· The Lord’s Prayer

· The Prayer of the Lord

· A Prayer of Our Heart

· The Prayer of the Church

· Apostolic tradition

· Liturgical Prayer

Chapter 10 – The Seven Petitions of the Lord’s Prayer

· Our Father

· We dare to say Father

· Who art in heaven

· The first three petitions

§ Hallowed Be Thy Name

§ Thy Kingdom Come

§ Thy Will Be Done on Earth As It Is in Heaven

· The last four petitions

§ Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

§ And Forgive Us Our Trespasses, As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us

§ And Lead Us Not Into Temptation

§ But Deliver Us From Evil

· The Final Doxology

§ For the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory Are Yours, Now and Forever

§ Amen!