Immaculate Conception?

Question

I teach a first grade catachism class and i am not sure how to go about explaining The Immaculate Conception to them any ideas will be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I've taught first grade catechism too and you have to approach it differently. The first thing is letting them know that the Immaculate Conception was when Mary, the mother of Jesus was born, because some of them might mistakenly think that the Immaculate Conception refers to the birth of Jesus. Secondly, you can approach it that God wanted Jesus' mom to be extra special because she would be his son's mommy, so he made her without sin. You can approach it by saying that because Jesus was no ordinary baby, he needed a mommy that wasn't ordinary either. I don't know how much they'll understand it, they might just get that she was born without sin and that that must have been cool, and quite frankly at the first grade level that's all they need to get from it. :-) Good luck and God Bless you for taking the time to teach catechism!!

Answer 2

My understanding of the Immaculate Conception is the special intervention by God (we call them miracles) at the time of Mary's Conception to save her from the stain of Original Sin.

The theory is that nothing clean can come from something unclean, and so Mary had to be free of Original Sin so that she could be the mother of Jesus.

Answer 3

God had selected Mary to be His mother so that He might be born a man. The perfect, sinless God could not be born of a sinner. Therefore God, at the moment of Mary's conception, removed from her the effects of Original Sin, the fallen nature that causes concupiscence and draws us to ungodly things. It is not true that Mary didn't need a Savior. She herself acknowledged that she did. But God chose to save her in a unique way, appropriate for the unique role she was to play in salvation history.
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Answer 4

Mary is considered special because the church teaches we all have some bad things (sins) about us, even when we are tiny babies, before we can even walk or talk. But Mary was touched by God while she was still inside her mother to make sure she didn't have any bad things when she was born.

Answer 5

I don't believe in the immaculate conception. Mary was conceived like the rest of us were.

Answer 6

Mary was conceived without sin in Mary's mother's womb.

If you teach that the IC was the conception of Jesus in Mary, you would be incorrect.


Both concepts were decided by the vote of men.

Answer 7

first grade seems to young to me to try and explain conception much less immaculate conception.

Answer 8

First grade? and you plan to stuff make-believe sex into the minds of children who don't know about or care about sex? Good luck. You are now part of the great plan to turn them into religious automatons. Personally, if I were put in that position, I would feel great shame because of the crime I was committing against reason, logic and the impressionable minds I would be corrupting.

Answer 9

Sorry, but I don't think it can really be explained. Teach them how to appreciate the real things, the perceptible truth and other practical issues that will help them in life.
I don't really believe that you are teaching something you believe in.

Answer 10

LOL....Damien said the Holy Spirit "came upon her".... LOL!! THat funny!!!


Personally , Id have thunk that the Holy Spirit came INSIDE HER - but what do I know??

Id perhaps avoid teaching someone else's child about the birds and the bees - especially when youre telling them a myth like that.