What's next? After your kids have learned the catechism and a plethora of Bible passages and hymns, what else might they learn by heart? Of course, you're still going to want to be continuing to pray those texts already learned. But sometimes it seems good to add some other salutary passages.
How about psalms? Maybe 1, 23, and 100. Maybe 25, 27, 46, 85, 103, 116, 118. And others.
How about the prayer offices or at least the canticles from them? And more hymns -- of course, always more hymns!
I've also asked various kids to learn portions of the Athanasian Creed, the 4th and 5th articles of the Augsburg Confession, the preface that comes near the beginning of the Easter Vigil, the middle paragraph of the Second Article in the Large Catechism (labeled as "verses" 28-30), the litany (LSB 288 or page 112 of TLH), and assorted collects. Not that any of us has learned all that! But we wouldn't want them to slow down on absorbing new things just because they'd already learned everything included in the Learn-by-Heart charts. And this just happens to be a few things we've found good to add to the list.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
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