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travellinmike
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I’ve started practicing again this lent after about 20 years away. My wife and I take the kids (5 & 2) to mass with us. they seem to like it once we get there.
I read in another thread about kids having knowledge of the faith appropriate for their age. What should a 5 yr old know? Up until a few months ago. he didn’t know anything about the sign of the cross, the Our Father (well he does hear it at “the coffee house” meetings) or anything else Catholic.
He went to a protestant day care and uses the old “God is great, God is good, Let us thank Him for our food” grace before meals. My wife and I are use to the ‘correct’ (?) grace. “Bless us our Lord, and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive, through Thy bounty, through Crist our Lord, Amen” He balks at this and often says his own prayer after we get done.
He does the wrong shoulder order when blessing himself. He has never said a Hail Mary in his life.
What should a 5 yr old know about how to act in church, I’m assuming they should know to genuflect, use the holy water, etc.
What prayers typically does a 5 yr old have memorized? Our Father, Hail Mary, Grace before meals. Any others?
I want to get him up to speed so to speak before he goes th 1st grade next year and it’s obvious the nuns that he comes from a heathen background.
Mike
I read in another thread about kids having knowledge of the faith appropriate for their age. What should a 5 yr old know? Up until a few months ago. he didn’t know anything about the sign of the cross, the Our Father (well he does hear it at “the coffee house” meetings) or anything else Catholic.
He went to a protestant day care and uses the old “God is great, God is good, Let us thank Him for our food” grace before meals. My wife and I are use to the ‘correct’ (?) grace. “Bless us our Lord, and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive, through Thy bounty, through Crist our Lord, Amen” He balks at this and often says his own prayer after we get done.
He does the wrong shoulder order when blessing himself. He has never said a Hail Mary in his life.
What should a 5 yr old know about how to act in church, I’m assuming they should know to genuflect, use the holy water, etc.
What prayers typically does a 5 yr old have memorized? Our Father, Hail Mary, Grace before meals. Any others?
I want to get him up to speed so to speak before he goes th 1st grade next year and it’s obvious the nuns that he comes from a heathen background.
Mike