Catholic Vision of Love
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The “Catholic Vision of Love” is a total parish program of faith formation directed at families. By fostering stronge partnerships with families, the “Catholic Vision of Love” is designed to assist parents in fulfilling their responsibility as the primary educators of their children. A clear articulation of the Catholic vision of love and human sexuality is essential today in order to strengthen the family, to help love endure, and to enable God’s people to live faith-filled, joyous and meaningful lives. Working together, we can give families a solid formation in the Church’s teaching on love and sexuality.
Let us pray that the Spirit of God will guide, inspire and strengthen us.
Please click on the links below to access the lessons for each grade level.
CVOL for Grades 1-4; What Can Parents Do?
The following grade specific lessons will help you.
Grade 1 – Personal Safety
Grades 2-3 – Personal Safety
Grade 4 – Personal Safety
CVOL for Grades 5-8; What Can Parents Do?
The following grade specific lessons will help you.Grade 5
Lesson 1: Self-respect: Acknowledging why you are so important
This lesson seeks to help the student realize how immensely important each one of us is, in truth before God.Lesson 2: Understanding the changes we experience
This lesson helps the student to see that the many changes that come with adolescence should not be sources of anxiety, but are meant by God to be steps toward a richer fulfillment in life.Lesson 3: Friendship, love, and life
This lesson seeks to help the student understand what friendship is, and why it is so precious a gift.Lesson 4: Christ in my home and in my life
This lesson speaks of the importance of the home—of the ways in which Christ taught us to love the home, and encouraged us to make our homes the happy places He wants them to be.Lesson 5: Personal Safety
This lesson emphasizes respect for self, focusing on relationship boundaries.Grade 6
Lesson 1: Vocation
This lesson seeks to strengthen in students a sense of vocation, a realization that their lives are important, that God has a great role for each of them to play in life and to show that reflection on what we are meant to be is important for the fulfillment and happiness of our lives.Lesson 2: Being responsible for our own lives
This lesson helps students understand the great gift of freedom, and to be able to tell the difference between “things happening to them” and things they do.”Lesson 3: Life is worth living
This lesson has a very basic message: God made us to live and to live great lives.Lesson 4: Learning how large love is
This lesson aims at helping the students to understand the central message of Christ: that genuine love is the most important of all things.Lesson 5: Personal Safety
This lesson focuses teaching on human dignity and communicating boundaries with home, school and online safety guidelines.Grade 7
Lesson 1: Vocation—God’s call
This lesson is planned to help the studenbts realize the goodness of our vocation: our call to be Christians, and our call by God himself to an important life.Lesson 2: Modesty—A strong and thoughtful virtue
This lesson aims to help students grasp the meaning of modesty, to appreciate its attractiveness and goodness, and to help them understand why Christ wishes us to have modesty in our hearts and in our lives.Lesson 3: Reconciliation in our years of growing up
This lesson seeks to help young people to make good use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation in ways that will help them most in their years of growing up.Lesson 4: Christ and the courage to be pure of heart
This lesson helps the student know wht the beatitude “Blessed are the pure of hear means, and realize how true it is.Lesson 5: Personal Safety
This lesson focuses on respect and the dignity of the human person, by way of communication boundaries – texting, touching and talking about self and others.Grade 8
Lesson 1: Your vocation: To make the world a better place
This lesson seeks to stress for students the importance of accepting responsibility for making this world a better place, for seeking to overcome abortion and the injustices involved in proverty.Lesson 2: Living in a world that suffers from AIDS
This lesson seeks to help young people understand some of the bitter evils that have arisen from the misuse of sexuality.Lesson 3: Christ and my conscience
This lesson is intended to help students in something of greatest importance to their lives: in coming to realize what conscience really is, and how they can be radically honest in facing wht is truly good or truly bad in the shaping of their own lives.Lesson 4: The Eucharist and love
This lesson seeks to show how the Eucharist is a gift of God’s most generous love, and shows us how to be generous in love in every part of life, and so wise in living.Lesson 5: Personal Safety
This lesson focuses on respect and the dignity of the human person through safe body boundaries – what we wear and what we do.
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