Comments on: Big Truths for Little Kids, Part One

By: Christi Derr

Christi Derr — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:41:18 +0000

Thanks Mark! This catechesis is simple and childlike without being childish and “cutesy”!

By: laurak

laurak — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:33:47 +0000

When Jesus wept, it wasn’t because he was angry at death.

He wept because of the suffering that His friends were going through.

Jesus was both human and divine and his human side cried with his friends.

His human side cried because of his friends’ suffering. When they suffered, he suffered too.

Jesus cried because of his love for Lazzarus, who was his friend too.

Jesus destroyed death, through love. Only love and not anger. No where in this passage is Jesus angry.

It is our solemn duty as parents to know and understand this for the sake of both our children and ourselves.

By: Warren Jewell

Warren Jewell — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:20:49 +0000

May I suggest, sage Shea, a new catechism (that isn’t really ‘new’) that you could title:

Big Truths – the Truth, the Whole truth, and Nothing But the Truth – for Kids.

No need to append ‘little’; as PriarieHawk notices, any ‘kid’ can find edification in simple truth. I like your Baltimore Catechism style, myself. It is reminiscent of the proposition-exposition style of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

And, oh, how youth catechesis (and even R.C.I.A.?) would benefit . . .

By: PrairieHawk

PrairieHawk — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:12:42 +0000

I think these answers are for more than just children. Reading them in their beautiful, childlike simplicity goes a long way to bolstering my adult faith, too. Thank you, Mark.