RECONCILIATION - Sorting and Labeling

OBJECTIVES

• Students will be presented with several ways to categorize sins.
• Students will recognize sins of word and thought, sins of action and omission.
• Students will understand that some sins can completely destroy our relationship with God.  These are called mortal sins.
• Students will know that mortal sins have 1) serious matter, 2) full knowledge and 3) full consent.
• Students will understand that venial sins damage our relationship with God, and that many venial sins can have the same effect as a Mortal Sin.

HOMEWORK:  Students have a sheet with a variety of scenarios - they are to try and label the sin in the example in one of the ways we examined - action/omission, word/thought  None of the examples (because they all relate to common situations among children) is a mortal sin.

In addition to simply classifying the examples, of course it is fun to discuss with your child (or perhaps the family) what people could do in the situation to either avoid sin, or to make things better.