Lesson 1Session 12: Final preparation, retreat day, and rehearsal for sacramentsThis last meeting pulls together the path, gives quiet-time thinking, and practices the church ways for First Communion and Confirmation, making sure grown-ups are spirit, heart, and real ready for marking.
Review of main themes and kindnessesLed quiet prayer and thinkingHeart check of readiness and trustStep-through of sacrament ritesPlanning marking and next stepsLesson 2Session 4: Sacraments of Initiation overview: Baptism, Eucharist, ConfirmationThis meeting shows the three Sacraments of Starting as one joined way, explaining Washing, Confirmation, and Eucharist, their Bible roots, signs, and works, and how they shape lifelong Christian self.
Sacraments as signs and tools of kindnessOneness of Washing, Confirmation, EucharistBible roots of startingMain signs and moves in each sacramentOngoing works in daily Christian lifeLesson 3Session 10: Prayer life and personal devotion: examen, lectio divina, and sacramental lifeThis meeting makes strong own prayer life, teaching daily heart check, holy reading, and regular sacrament ways, so grown-ups can build a lasting beat of love that backs ongoing turning and sending.
Roots of Christian prayerStep-by-step daily heart check wayHoly reading with Sunday Bible taleLove for Mary and holy onesRegular gathering, owning up, and honouringLesson 4Session 11: Living the Christian life: moral teaching, social witness, and missionThis meeting shows Catholic right-living teaching, good ways, and heart guide, then looks at social teaching, rightness, and sharing witness, helping grown-ups see their sending in kin, work, church, and bigger world.
Freedom, wrong, and right-living dutyMain and God-way good waysCatholic social teaching basicsWitness in kin, work, and worldChurch joining and lay worksLesson 5Session 5: Baptism essentials and preparation for unbaptized candidatesThis meeting centres on Washing’s meaning, kindness, and rite, and gives special leading for unwashed grown-ups, including readying steps, guides, and real details for marking the sacrament in the church.
First wrong and need for WashingWashing promises and turning awaysWater, oil, white cloth, and lightRole of guides and Christian watchersSteps for unwashed grown-up candidatesLesson 6Session 6: Reconciliation—sin, conscience, examen, and sacramental confession practiceThis meeting looks at wrong, turning, and heart guide, then teaches how to check one’s life and mark sacrament owning up, including shape, prayers, and way to cut fear and push true turning back.
Big and small wrong explainedShaping and walking a right heart guideHow to make a daily heart checkBuild of the Rite of Giving BackWay: readying a first owning upLesson 7Session 8: Preparing for First Communion: rites, disposition, and practical rehearsalThis meeting readies grown-ups real and spirit for First Sharing, looking back at Sharing rites, inside way, not eating, and honour, and giving a step-by-step way for taking the Eucharist.
Spirit hunger and want for JesusNeeded inside way and grace stateSharing not-eating and outside honourHow to take under different shapesWay of Sharing lineLesson 8Session 9: Confirmation: gifts of the Holy Spirit, personal discernment, and sponsor roleThis meeting explains Confirmation as pouring of the Spirit, looks back at the seven gifts and fruits, and leads grown-ups in seeing of calling and helping, including the role and picking of a good guide.
Meaning and works of ConfirmationSeven gifts and fruits of the SpiritPouring oil, hand laying, and sealPicking and working with a guideSeeing own gifts and callingLesson 9Session 7: Eucharist doctrine: Real Presence, Liturgy of the Word and EucharistThis meeting deepens knowing of the Eucharist as giving, memory, and True Being, and walks through the Word Liturgy and Eucharist Liturgy so grown-ups can join more knowing and loving.
Bible roots of the EucharistTrue Being and change of beingGathering as giving and thanksWord Liturgy: build and meaningEucharist Liturgy: prayers and ritesLesson 10Session 3: Church, Tradition, and Magisterium—authority and teachingThis meeting explains what the Church is, why Christ started it, and how old ways and teaching guide lead teaching, so grown-ups can know rule, oneness, and their place in the Catholic group today.
Bible pictures of the ChurchMarks of the Church: one, holy, all, sentHoly old ways and Holy BibleRole of teaching guide and popeWalking, heart guide, and faith yesLesson 11Session 2: Who is God? Trinity, Revelation, and Scripture basicsThis meeting brings in who God is as Three, how God shows himself in times and in Jesus, and how Bible is moved and read in the Church, giving grown-ups a strong base for later sacrament teaching.
Pictures of God and own talesThe Three: Father, Son, Holy SpiritShowing in saving times and ChristMoving and list of BibleHow Catholics read the BibleLesson 12Session 1: Welcome, Storytelling, and Personal Journey mappingThis starting meeting builds trust, asks joiners to share their tales, and sketches each one’s spirit path, helping them name hopes, questions, and aims for readying to take First Communion and Confirmation as grown-ups.
Bringing ins and group hopesSharing faith backs and life talesNaming hopes and fears for this wayOwn faith time line and key timesSetting own spirit aims
