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Being a Faith-Keeper for your child

Ten Suggestions For Parents:
To Help Your Child Along Their Confirmation Journey.
1. Take care of your relationship with God. Set aside daily time for prayer.
2. Pray as a family (at meals, while traveling, at night before bed, or even something as small as taking time to thank God)
3. Pray for your children and let them know you are praying for them.
4. Remind them that God is present in their lives.
5. Put up symbols of the faith throughout the home to create a “Catholic
Atmosphere”. (Cross, Crucifix, Bible, a Madonna, Nativity, etc.)
6. Before they get Confirmed go through old photos and put together key moments of faith photo album. (Baptism, First Communion, and volunteer work)
7. Choose a spiritual gift for your child’s Confirmation celebration. (Book of prayers, Bible, medal, etc.)
8. Invent/start or restart a family ritual. (Everyone brings up a person or situation that they’d like to pray for and then say a prayer for those listed.)
9. Complete a service project with your child. (Volunteer at a food kitchen, fish fry, coat drive, etc.)
10. Have one-on-one time with your child. Share insights and concerns that you had in your faith journey and ask if they had similar or different experiences. Be ready to listen and make it clear that you will not make judgments based on what they share.

Scripture Passages & Catechism Readings:
To Pray & Reflect With
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-Isaiah 2
-Galatians 5
-Ephesians 1: 13
-Acts 8: 14-17
-Acts 19: 5-6
-Matthew 25: 40
-Luke 4: 18-19
-Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], no. 1285
-Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], no. 1285-1287
-Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], no. 1294
-Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], no. 1309
-Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], no. 1316
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More faith is caught than taught. What are your children catching?