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Welcome to the Religious Education home page.
The links from this page will take you to course material that is currently being used with our students. It is constantly being updated and improved.
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OVERVIEW
As an Edmund Rice educational community, Trinity College hopes its students will ?experience learning and living fully integrated in the light of faith? throughout all aspects of there lives here. The Religious Education Department plays an important role in helping students achieve this goal.
Trinity's Religious Education Department provides a required five-year program for all students. The members of the department recognise that students come to Trinity from diverse religious backgrounds, and make no presumptions about the religious knowledge or practice our students bring with them. All Religious Education courses are taught as part of the academic curriculum, with corresponding academic requirements.
Faith in God through Jesus Christ is a grace, a free gift from God. This it is not the purpose of the Religious Education Department to convince students of certain truth or doctrines, or to make them into adult believers. Many students are not ready for an adult faith commitment. Some are closer to this point than others, but most have many questions to ask. As they search for answers, the Religious Education teachers function as guides and helpers.
As a Catholic school, the focus of Trinity's Religious Education program is on Roman Catholicism. The purpose of our program is not to indoctrinate students. Rather, we hope to serve each student in his own religious quest and to provide the opportunity for students to explore their own religious traditions and beliefs.
The academic nature of this program distinguishes it from other types of religious formation that take place in our school and in the individual student's faith community.
These other types of religious formation are found in:
Campus Ministry, Christian Service and The Chaplaincy.
ALL STUDENTS ? CATHOLIC YOUTH BIBLE
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All Students at Trinity College are required to have a copy of the Catholic Youth Bible which they keep at school and take to every Religious Education Class.
The Catholic Youth Bible is designed to help adolescents and young adults :
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answer life's important questions
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see themselves as a vital part of God's saving work in the world
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make connections to Catholic beliefs and traditions
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read the Bible regularly
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study the Bible, pray the Bible, live the Bible!
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YEAR 8 ? UNDERSTANDING CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY
 Understanding Catholic Christianity offers our Year 8 students an overview of Catholicism. I This course serves as a foundation for the other high school Religious Education courses and faith formation experiences they will have. It also provides a common vocabulary for articulating the essentials of Catholic teaching. This course was developed using the Catechism of the Catholic Church as a primary source. The course does not assume a Catholic background or a committed faith in the students, but can bring Catholic and non-Catholic young people alike to a deeper appreciation of Catholicism's beliefs, rituals, moral vision, and prayer life ? and how that rich heritage can relate to their young lives. |
YEAR 9 ? JESUS OF HISTORY, CHRIST OF FAITH
 Jesus of History, Christ of Faith invites our Year 9 students to understand Jesus through a study of the New Testament. The course first considers the New Testament as a whole, particularly the Gospels, and moves to the Jewish historical, religious, and cultural world into which Jesus was born. Using the Gospels as primary sources the course explores Jesus' birth, early life, and ministry; his preaching of the Kingdom of God; his special teachings, particularly the parables; and his miracles. It then focuses on the scriptural accounts of his death and Resurrection, the Ascension, and Pentecost, and their central significance for the church's understanding of Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God.
The course then explores Paul's missionary work and how his Epistles develop major themes in his theology. The course closes with an overview of the development of Christology after the New Testament to the present. |
YEAR 10 ? LIVING JUSTICE AND PEACE
 Living Justice and Peace : Catholic Social Teaching in Practice is a course which teaches our Year 10 students about how the Scriptures and Catholic social teaching call them to justice. This course fosters the students ability and desire to respond to that call.
The course has three objectives:
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to cultivate students' sense of compassion by inviting them to a deeper awareness of injustice;
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to enable students to critically examine society, using the values of Scripture and Catholic teaching to imagine ways toward justice and peace;
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to inspire students to act, using true stories of how people who work for justice and peace can transform the world.
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YEAR 11 ? GROWING IN CHRISTIAN MORALITY
 The course Growing in Christian Morality focuses on the development of virtue and character. It helps students raise the important question, ?What kind of person am I becoming??, and ?what kind of person do I want to become??
The course then offers a Christian vision for answering this question, centring on Jesus as the model of full humanness and presenting the Tradition of Catholic church teaching on contemporary moral issues.
The course includes extensive narrative material--stories, cases, and quotes from young people--that helps the students relate the concepts to their own experience. The course promotes student interest and involvement in the process of learning about Christian morality.
Contents:
1. Morality: Choosing What Kind of Person You Become
2. The Christian Vision of Morality: Jesus, Model of Full Humanness
3. Helps Along the Way: A Journey with Others
4. Moral Decision Making: Listening to Reality
5. Wise Judgment: Good-Conscience-in-Action
6. Justice: Love's Minimum
7. Courage: Facing Our Fears for the Sake of the Good
8. Wholeness: Toward Strength, Beauty, and Happiness
9. Honesty: Creating Trust
10. Respect for Persons: Looking Again
11. Compassion: Solidarity with Those Who Suffer
12. Respect for Creation: The Earth as God's
13. Reverence for Human Life: Cherishing the Gift
14. Peacemaking: Handling Conflict with Creativity
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YEAR 12 ? CREATING A CHRISTIAN LIFESTYLE
 The senior year is a pivotal moment in the life of teens, a time when young men and women are shaping their goals and hopes for the future and seeking spiritual guidance. Creating a Christian Lifestyle, a comprehensive course, addresses significant issues teens face as they choose among the many life paths they may travel--single or married life, religious life or ordained ministry.
The student text examines themes common to all these paths: identity and autonomy, love, communication, sexuality, friendship, creativity and learning, work, money and possessions, and suffering and healing. Thought-provoking stories, poems, and personal examples lead students into discussion; engaging activities invite reflection, discussion, and journal writing. The full-colour lively design and over 50 original artworks by students stimulate students' interest.
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