Parent Teaching Pages are easy-to-use guides that walk parents through teaching each lesson with step-by-step instructions, background information, and discussion starters. They are simplified versions of the Teaching Guides a catechist or teacher would use.
Las páginas de enseñanza para padres son guías fáciles de usar que guían a los padres en la enseñanza de cada lección con instrucciones paso a paso, información de fondo y temas para iniciar el debate. Son versiones simplificadas de las guías de enseñanza que utilizaría un catequista o un maestro.
Today is Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes today, marking the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to fourteen-year-old Marie Bernade (St. Bernadette) Soubirous. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared eighteen times, and showed herself to St. Bernadette in the hollow of the rock at Lourdes. On March 25 she said to the little shepherdess who was only fourteen years of age: "I am the Immaculate Conception." Since then Lourdes has become a place of pilgrimage and many cures and conversions have taken place. The message of Lourdes is a call to personal conversion, prayer, and charity.