Preparation Week 3 - Reconciliation Step by Step

ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES

You may remember this video of the steps of Reconciliation from the parent session.  You can watch it along with your family handout 5, which includes the cartoon images.

Your child may find it helpful to roleplay the steps of Reconciliation with you each taking a turn at being the priest and the other one being the person confessing their sins.  You can discuss some made-up sins to confess when doing this.

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

• What are the stages of Reconciliaiton? (p. 7-8 of Family Handout 5)
• How does the Parable of the Prodigal Son help us to understand the stages of Reconciliation? (p. 1 of Family Handout 5)
• What does confession do to me? (p. 137 of the YouCat for kids)
• Why should I confess to a priest (p. 138 of the YouCat for kids)

REVISIT THE HANDOUTS

 Handout 5 goes through all the steps of Reconciliation and connects them to the Parable of the Prodigal Son.