<strong>Religious</strong> <strong>Education</strong> <strong>Curriculum</strong> <strong>Directory</strong>3CELEBRATION:SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM1LITURGY1 What is liturgy?2 God’s plan of blessing2 SACRAMENTS1 <strong>The</strong> Paschal Mystery and the SacramentalNature of the Church2 Who celebrates?3 Signs and symbols4 Liturgical year5 Seven sacraments3 BAPTISM, CONFIRMATION, EUCHARIST1 Sacraments of Christian Initiation2 Baptism3 Confirmation4 <strong>The</strong> Eucharist5 What is this Sacrament called?4 RECONCILIATION AND THE ANOINTINGOF THE SICK1 Sacraments of Healing2 Reconciliation:3 Anointing of the Sick5 HOLY ORDERS AND MATRIMONY1 Sacraments at the Service of Communion2 Holy Orders3 Marriage6 PRAYER123What is prayer?A universal callPrayer in Judaism and other religions4LIFE IN CHRIST: GAUDIUM ET SPES1THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON1 Dignity of the human person made ‘Inthe image of God’2 <strong>The</strong> desire for happiness3 Beatitude4 World Religions: Judaism5 <strong>The</strong> Church and Other Non-Christians2 FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY AND CON-SCIENCE1 Freedom & Responsibility2 Conscience3 Morality of human action3 LAW, GRACE, SIN1 <strong>The</strong> Old Law2 <strong>The</strong> New Law3 <strong>The</strong> Magisterium4 Grace5 Virtues6 Vice and Sin4 THE HUMAN COMMUNITY1 Human vocation and society2 Different types of justice3 Human solidarity5 LOVE OF GOD1 <strong>The</strong> Decalogue2 <strong>The</strong> First, Second and Third commandments:Love of God6 LOVE OF NEIGHBOUR123456789Fourth to Tenth commandmentsCall to family, community, and participationRespect for human lifeSafeguarding PeaceSocial doctrine of the ChurchMajor <strong>The</strong>mes of <strong>Catholic</strong> Social TeachingLove of the poorLiving in truthPurity of heart12
<strong>Catholic</strong> Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales — Department of <strong>Catholic</strong> <strong>Education</strong> and FormationAREA OF STUDY 1: REVELATION: DEI VERBUMWithin this area of study pupils are led into an exploration of the revelation of Jesus Christin Scripture and History. Because revelation of God in Jesus Christ is ‘the foundation offaith’ 25 this first Area of Study may be regarded as underpinning the whole. Key referencepoints in the Catechism are provided (numbers refer to paragraphs).1.1 KNOWING AND LOVING GODPupils’ teaching and learning is focussed on how through God’s Self-Revelation we come to knowthat God’s life is love, both given and received. Though we can know God with certainty by naturalreason, there is another order of knowledge: the order of divine Revelation. Through grace, God hasrevealed himself and given himself to human beings. This he does by revealing the mystery, his planof loving goodness, formed from all eternity in Christ, for the benefit of all people. God has fully revealedthis plan by sending us his beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.1.1.1. <strong>The</strong> Nature of Revelation: How Do WeKnow About God? (1-3, 27-35)A <strong>The</strong> human appetite for God (1-3, 27-30, 44-45,1718)a Within all people there is a longing for Godb This longing comes from God, who desires andinitiates a relationship with each personc Only in God can lasting joy and peace befound in this life and in the nextB God revealed in different ways (31-35)a Natural Revelation (32-34) mentioned inScripture (32)b Old Testament references: e.g. Genesis andWisdomc Paul’s Letter to the Romans (32)d <strong>The</strong> Fathers of the Church (32)e Arguments for the existence of God fromScholastic theology (31, 34) especially St.Thomas Aquinas and the ‘Five Ways’f Vatican I: we can grasp with certainty the ex-istence of God through human reason (36-38,46-47)g Contemporary arguments based on thehuman person’s openness to truth, beauty,moral goodness, freedom, voice of conscience(33)C Divine Revelation (50-53, 68-69)a Definition (50)b Scripture as the divinely inspired story ofGod’s Revelation in human history (54-64, 70-72)i <strong>The</strong> Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (59,145, 147)ii Moses (61)Diii Old Testament prophets (61-64, 522)iv John the Baptist (523, 717-720)v Jesus Christ, the definitive Word of Revela-tion, the one to whom all Scripture bears witness,is God’s only begotten Son (65-67, 73,101-104, 134, 423)<strong>The</strong> transmission of Divine Revelation (74-95)a <strong>The</strong> Apostolic Tradition (74-79, 96)b <strong>The</strong> relationship between Tradition and Sa-cred Scripture (80-83, 97)c <strong>The</strong> Deposit of Faith and the rôle of the Church(84-95, 98-100)1.1.2. <strong>The</strong> Nature of Revelation: God’s gift ofhimself (74-100)A Scripture, Tradition, and the depositum fidei(74-100, 103-108, 134-135)a Definitionsb Scripture is the inspired record of God’s Reve-lation in historyc Tradition is the living transmission of themessage of the Gospel in the Church1.1.3. Faith: the response to God’s self-Revelation(144-165)A Faith in general (143-144, 153-165)a Grace that enables an assent of mind, heart,and will (143)b Willingness to believe and trust in what Godhas communicated to usc Relationship with God: Father, Son, and HolySpirit (150-152)B Faith in Jesus Christ leading to discipleship (520,546, 562, 654, 1533)13