It is astounding to me that the Catholic Church has no “Sunday School” apparatus, or Bible Studies of their own. Study is left aside to the individual Catholic, and the parish otherwise is confined to a strictly 55 minute Holy Mass, per week. That’s not quite four hours a month!
Thanks be to God for EWTN TV & RADIO, which single handedly brought me into the Church and kept me zealous for her. I would be illiterate but for this programming, and it’s the protestant converts behind their best programs, offering spectacular adult catechesis and materials.
But yes Catholics are starving otherwise.
My Catholic mother in law is shocked we read the Bible to my three year old, and have her do memory work.
I am a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I honestly don’t know when I started Sunday School as a kid, I was that young. My bride said she didn’t have any religious education outside the home till third or fourth grade.
Seems to me that is very odd in today’s culture. You will loose the kids by then.
“It is astounding to me that the Catholic Church has no “Sunday School” apparatus, or Bible Studies of their own.”
My parish does.