TradCatKnight: Crisis in Catechesis
Crisis in Catechesis by Father Somerville
Notice that there is no mention here or anywhere else of Jesus attending a school. We rather suspect that He never did go to any earthly school. We know that He could talk with His heavenly Father and the Holy Ghost at any time. His holy Mother, brought up in the Temple, had been trained in the Law of Moses. This included the celebrated Ten Commandments and many more rules of good conduct, morality, and justice for the Jews to observe. Jesus certainly did not need earthly school training.
Catechesis in the Old Covenant
What about the Jewish children of other couples? Did God command that there be a Jewish school system for the Hebrew boys and girls? Did God want those children to learn His laws and obey them? Did He have some teachers in mind who would pass on to children the laws of God specially revealed to Israel by the great lawgiver Moses?
The answer to all these questions is: Yes. The parents were the ones who would teach God’s laws to those children.
Moses teaching the Israelites
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The fifth of these books is Deuteronomy. In chapter 4, Moses says:
* “O Israel, hear the precepts which I teach thee …. You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it.” (v.2)
* “Forget not the words (of the law) …. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and grandsons … (let the people) teach their children.” (v. 9-10)
* “Put these words in your hearts and minds … teach your children that they might meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and walkest on the way, and liest down to rest.” (11:19)
* “Thou shalt write my words on the posts and gates of thy house, that thy days may be multiplied and the days of thy children” (20-21).
“Set your hearts on the words which I testify to you this day, that you command them to your children to keep and to do, and to fulfill all things of this law that are written.” (32:36)
Let us conclude with a citation from the Book of Ecclesiasticus: Read more »
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