Little Blessings Essay

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Little Blessings Home Liturgy with Children Pritchard, Gretchen W. “Home Liturgy with Children.”Liturgy 21.4(2006):39-45. Subject: Religious- families’ belief; Children: full of imagination When lower cast families often think of teaching their children to be religious, they often think of a formal church setting, but many families have found that teaching faith in the comfort of their own homes has given them a better way of communicating with their children. By starting at an early age when they are unaware, it seems they are taught more easily. Although many families may teach and preach to their children, they don’t stand to their own belief. Teaching your child to open the Bible, to pray, and having a holy meal can show good morals, but what good is it if a parent doesn’t follow the example? Creative Bible Teaching Pritchard states that the best time to begin teaching is in preschool, when children are free of artificiality, eager to learn and excited for stories. But opening the Bible can be a difficult task for families because they don’t know how to explain the pictures or how to explain the history behind the stories. Families should start by taking their children to church Prayers for Spiritual Strength Praying is like breathing easier to do it than to not do it. Families pray for a variety of reasons. For one thing, prayer is a form of serving God and obeying Him. But prayers are not as important as it should be. As Pritchard shares in her article, “prayers occur only when enforced by families”(42). The concept of “saying prayers” is to do it as a family in a special location. The Symbolism of Eating Together Pritchard explains that the holy meal is being extinct, not many families are sitting down at a table and eating dinner. With busy lives and being overworked families, they forget the values in sitting down as a
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