Religion

At the heart of our school is our religion program.  Our religion permeates everything that we do here at St. Joseph Catholic School.  We integrate religion into the core area subjects for our students, thereby demonstrating to our students that our faith is not added onto our education, but rather, it is central in all that we do each day. Concepts learned in the primary grades are expanded for our intermediate students. Where our students were introduced to our faith, they now are called to examine our responsibilities as Catholics in relation to one another, and our world.  Our students interpret Church teachings, and act upon those teaching though our daily lives.  Additionally, our students are introduced to different types of prayer in order to help them begin to form a personal relationship with our God. 

 Textbooks used:

• Third grade: Christ Our Life:  We Believe
• Fourth grade: Christ Our Life:  God Guides Us
• Fifth grade: Christ Our Life:  We Worship

• Interpret and apply Scripture to our lives
• Identify and develop the belief in one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
• Demonstrate an appreciation for prayer and an understanding that through prayer, we come to know God
• Recognize that Jesus began the Church and the importance of the Church
• Identify and demonstrate the importance of the sacraments in our lives
• Demonstrate social justice principles within our lives and our society
• Develop a moral conscience
• Recognize the Ten Commandments as God’s laws of love and develop practical ways to demonstrate that love to God and others
• Identify the Beatitudes as Jesus’s lessons for happiness and share ways to express mercy, love, and compassion through living the Beatitudes
• Develop a stronger understanding and appreciation of the Mass as a celebration focused on both the Word and the Eucharist
• Recognize that God calls each of us to a life of service through either a religious, married, or single vocation