Help children articulate their faith: Bishop

Staff reporter

Bishop Brendan Leahy has appealed to parents to help their children articulate their faith.

At the launch of the first formal religious education curriculum for Catholic pre-school and primary school on the island of Ireland, the Bishop of Limerick called on parents to be “generous in your attention given to this core aspect of your child’s life”.

“Children have a right to be helped to articulate the religious sense they feel deep within them. I believe it is important to provide them with an early training in a language that enables them to express the deepest longing of their heart in faith, prayer and knowledge,” he said.

Bishop Leahy added that parents need to help children “satisfy the desire of their soul and the thirst of their mind”. 

The new Catholic Preschool and Primary School Curriculum for Ireland (2015) will be rolled out in all Catholic primary schools on the island of Ireland over the next four years. It is envisaged that the Grow in Love programme and other resources based on this outline will be developed to support teachers in their implementation of the curriculum.