“Teach them to carry out everything I have commanded you.
And know that I am with you always, until the end of the world. Mt. 28:20

What does the child need to develop his or her relationship with God?

That’s a question concerned with the child’s needs, rather than with adults’ need to fix something or to try to fit in one more responsibility in a busy life. Children need to know Jesus, to understand His message and to appreciate the role of the Catholic Church. 

Parents have been entrusted with the faith formation and spiritual lives of their children. Thus it remains the parents’ duty above anyone else’s to teach their children in the faith. 

The Catechism reminds parents to “bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity and disinterested service are the rules” (Catechism, 2223).