St. John the Evangelist - Ancient Faith, Modern Relevance

These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (Deuteronomy 6.6-9)

If the atom in the “physics” of the faith is the individual soul, then the molecule is the nuclear family. The first lessons learned, the deepest hurts either inflicted or cured, the most intimate secrets shared are all in the family. For this reason, family religion is - in a certain sense - the truest sort of corporate religion there is. Or perhaps better said, it is the seed bed in which corporate worship and public godliness are planted and nurtured.

St. John’s wants to encourage family religion in a variety of ways. One way is through encouraging a regular devotional life in the family, with Bible reading and prayer. Another is through catechesis, the process of systematically inculcating important information into each family member.

We offer the resources below to those ends.