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SHARING SUNDAY'S GOSPEL
WITH PARENTS & FAMILIES
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| Sharing the Sunday Gospel with families through primary schools
and enriching the Home, School & Parish partnership.
Headteacher
Asks... Content FAQ
1. WHO
IS THE CONTENT AIMED AT?
2. WHICH
VERSION OF THE SUNDAY GOSPEL IS USED?
3. WILL
THE MATERIAL BE DIRECTLY LINKED WITH ANY EXISTING SCHOOL RE
PROGRAMMES? |
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WHO
IS THE CONTENT AIMED AT? |
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Because The Wednesday Word shares the Gospel it is aimed at everyone.
However, the resource seeks to engage in particular with the majority of school parents who do not appear to be currently
interested in existing adult or child catechesis,
or in the Church. We aim therefore aim to promote
Catholic truth sensitively but in an inspiring way,
and to inform parents about the relevance of the
faith for themselves and their children.
The resource is primarily seeking to support and share the Good News with parents and carers, because it is the adult's relationship with God
that will have the most significant impact on the
future faith-life of the family. This in turn inevitably
contributes to the overall well-being of the family.
The Wednesday Word aims to help schools
and the Church to enhance links with parents and
carers. This we believe will greatly enrich and
help to achieve the aims of the home, school and
parish partnership.
The Wednesday
Word is also an excellent way for practising Catholic
families to prepare for the proclamation of the
Gospel at the coming Sunday Mass. It also helps
them to transmit the faith to their children and
so further develop the domestic church.
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WHICH
VERSION OF THE SUNDAY GOSPEL IS USED? |
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Wednesday Word team includes three Catholic priests. To enable primary school children to fully participate in the Family Time, the Jerusalem
version of the Gospels, which is used in
the Catholic Sunday Missal, is adapted in a way similar
to the popular translations that many parishes already
use in their Children’s Liturgy sessions.
In our attempts to ensure accuracy and instil confidence,
we have put much time and effort into developing a
meticulous consultation process. This leads to every
Wednesday Word leaflet being granted an imprimatur, declaring the resource free from any moral or doctrinal error - so you can hand out with confidence.
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WILL
THE MATERIAL BE DIRECTLY LINKED WITH
ANY EXISTING SCHOOL RE PROGRAMMES? |
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Not
directly.
The Wednesday Word Trust is not
a publishing company with any vested interest in linking
with or promoting any particular RE programme. The
Wednesday Word is a national project which aims
to support all home, school and parish partnerships. The
resource aims to be inclusive and can be used to complement
any RE programme. The Wednesday Word aims
to create an awareness of the spiritual link between
the Catholic primary school and the local and universal
Church.
The Wednesday Word's mission is primarily
to share the good news of the Gospel and the Church for the
good of the family. In this way The Wednesday
Word aims to draw on what schools and parishes
have in common, namely: the Sunday Gospel, the sayings
of the saints and the teaching of the Catholic Church.
Thus The Wednesday Word includes indirectly
a general educational element which enriches and supports
all existing school catechetical programmes. This
is something which has been enthusiastically confirmed
by headteachers, RE coordinators, school governors
and priests who believe that The Wednesday Word
resource adds much value to all the existing RE programmes.
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"Imagine
a sower going out to
sow. Some seeds
fell on rich soil
and produced their crop,
some a hundredfold,
some sixty, some thirty."
Matt
13:3 & 8 |
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