Wednesday, December 7, 2011

4 December 2011 Class

Handed out Vision worksheets to students for warmup/take home.

Finished speech from last week and reviewed concepts of Church (Mystical Body of Christ, etc.) from last class (2 weeks ago).

Questions came up: What's a monk? Priests can't date? Religious vows? Different wine used for Eucharist for different weeks? Violence in video games (Black Ops)? Confession before Eucharist?

Read inside front cover of the missalette (sp): Guidelines for the reception of Eucharist for Catholics, non-Catholics, etc.

Students started drawing on large pieces of paper to answer, "For what does the Church hope?"

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Next week: we will meet in the main Church for a Church tour next week at 9:30 (that's 9:30, not 9:40). The tour should take about 1 hour or so. If picking up, please come to the Church, not the school.

21 November 2011 Class

Continued with the question: "For what does the Church hope?"

Showed the following video with an activity:
"What gifts does God give the Catholic Church?"


The activity (boys vs. girls for who had most correct answers):

What gifts does God give the Catholic Church?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roum4zbJ8ZQ

1. The ____________ Church has ____________ the gifts that Christ wants his people to have.


2. The ____________ Church has the ____________. ____________ is essential to our life.
^--- same word used here [in the last two blanks]---^


3. We have the ____________. At the heart of which is the ____________.


4. We have the other six ____________.


5. We have the gift of ____________ in our spiritual lives.


6. The fact that we have an ____________ structure that comes from the ____________.


7. In fact, all the ____________ churches – the various Protestant churches, the Eastern Orthodox Church and


so on – have these gifts to ____________ degrees. They have ____________ or ____________ of them.


8. Can we reach out in ____________ to our fellow Christians outside the Catholic Church?


____________, we ____________.


9. For example, every ____________ person is a brother or sister in ____________ ____________.


10. And in that sense we claim the ____________ and ____________ of the Catholic Church.

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Introduced concepts of 1. Mystical Body of Christ, 2. The Bride of Christ, and 3. God as Father and the Church as Mother. The concepts are used in speech below.

Finished class with a speech. Taught class how to project while speaking using an actual speech. All students stood at front of class (to cut down embarrassment). Divided up half of speech between students (rest can be read later). I edited the speech for length and some dicey topics. The entire speech can be viewed here, "Love for Jesus and His Church must be the passion of our lives!" by Archbishop Dolan of New York, President of the USCCB. (http://blog.archny.org/images/2011/11/Presidential-Address.pdf)