Review article
CONTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL CATECHISM TO EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND THE YOUNG FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EUCHARIST
Josip Šimunović
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The article deals with the positive task of Catholic catechism
in primary and secondary schools to teach correct understanding
and accepting of the Eucharist. However, school catechism is not the
only factor in the pupil’s life to create a true picture of Eucharist.
In the analysis of the subject the author starts from the religious
reality of Croatian society. In that religious diversity one can find the
pupils and the families they come from, as well as their particular
(non)openness to religious life and contents and, accordingly, to the
sacrament of Eucharist as well.
The article brings an overview of the texts speaking on the
Eucharist in the schoolbooks and work books for catechism in
70 Sveta kongregacija za bogoštovlje, Direktorij o misama s djecom, Glas Koncila,
Zagreb, 1984.
71 Usp. Ivan Pavao II., Ostani s nama Gospodine. Apostolsko pismo u Godini
Euharistije, Izvještajna katolička agencija, Zagreb, 2004., br. 26.
72 Isto.
Josip Šimunović, Doprinos školskoga vjeronauka odgoju djece i ...
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primary and secondary schools, various ways of talking about the
Eucharist within the framework of school catechism, as well as of
the possibilities of school catechism in education of children and
the young for the celebration of Eucharist, which is yet to take hold
more intensively.
Keywords
Eucharist; education; pupils; school catechism; schoolbooks for catechism; workbooks for catechism; teachers of catechism; school pastoral
Hrčak ID:
23653
URI
Publication date:
21.3.2006.
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