Confirmation Parent Meetings/1st Catechetical Session

Attention all Parents,
There will be a mandatory Confirmation meeting for all parents of Confirmation students who are in both the 1st and 2nd year of the formation process.  Please make sure that at least one parent attends the meeting that is most convenient.  Please pick one of the following:

Sunday October 7th 11:00am @St. Bede Cafeteria
Sunday October 7th 3:00pm @Holy Spirit Parish Hall
Tuesday October 9th 6:00pm @Holy Spirit Parish Hall
Wednesday October 10th 6:00pm @St. Bede Sanctuary

Also, as part of the catechesis program students who do not go to MCPS or have an approved Homeschool catechetical program are required to attend monthly catechetical sessions from 3-4:30pm.  Our first session will take place on Sunday October 21st in the Holy Spirit Parish Hall.  This is a mandatory meeting for private and public school students but all are encouraged to attend since the questions that will be gone over will be your study guide for your Confirmation Interview.  Below you will find the questions for this month.  Please answer all of the questions and email and/or snail mail them back to me by Friday Oct. 19th to be graded before your session.  if you have any other questions please feel free to contact me.

In Christ,

Ryan

Scripture Questions:

1.     What is the Bible?

2.     What does the Church teach about the Bible?

3.     Describe the four different stages in the development of the NT canon? 

4.     What is the difference (list the books) between the Catholic and the Protestant OT?

5.     How did this difference develop? 

6.     What the principal parts of the OT and the NT? 

7.     What does Torah mean  and what are the principal stories of the Torah?

8.     Who are the Major Prophets of the OT and what were their major concerns?

9.     List the Different people to whom books of the NT are attributed? 

10. What are the Catholic Epistles? Please list them. 

11. Why are there four different Gospels, and how should this effect the way we read the Gospels?

12. Explain why Catholics take parts of the Bible Literally (ex. John 6) and other parts not so literally (Creation Story).