An Uphill Battle

In my first 3 weeks of being back in the classroom as a teacher I've been reminded many times just how horrible Catholic faith education has been in the last 50 years. I'm honestly surprised I made it through okay. It's truly by the grace of God that He pulled me through things and found ways to teach me the truths of the Catholic faith.  So I know the truths, the goodness and the beauty of the Catholic faith and now it's my job to teach those to a bunch of kids who have not been taught those things very well at all. The few of my students that do have at least a basic understanding of the goodness of the Catholic faith are ones who have parents who have taught them those.
Overall, my students like me, but many don't like the Catholic faith at all. They have many questions but unfortunately many of those questions have never been answered or were answered in ways they didn't like so they stopped caring. Societies grip on many them is very evident and any truth bomb I might drop on them will just turn them father away.
I'm beginning to understand that 70% of my teaching this year has to be about the beauty of the Catholic faith, 20% needs to be the goodness and the last 10% will be the truths. When they are hungry for the truth I'll give it to them and pray it doesn't turn them off.

Here's to a challenging year.
Peace all