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Who is Jesus? St. Francis & FORMED


Who is Jesus? Who are SAFE adults and SAFE SPECIAL adults? How do our teens keep themselves safe and help their friends stay safe? Who is St. Francis of Assisi? How does the prayer process or spontaneous prayer work? All these topics were touched upon during our first gathering. In addition, some of our parents stayed and began a group of their own, in the church basement gathering area.


WHO IS JESUS?

Our youth got a little insight into who Jesus is via videos from our new parish subscription to “FORMED”, an awesome video, audio and reading library of all things catholic. This is a parish wide subscription and anyone can sign in to our account that’s linked to our parish, FOR FREE! Follow the instructions below in order to sign up. Links for the videos we showed the kids follow the sign in info

.

Any families who missed class will watch together at home and write a brief reflection that you can turn in for homework to count for attendance:

What is the most interesting thing you noticed in the video?

What is something new you learned?

What is something you want to know more about?


First – How to sign in to for “FORMED”


1- Go to Formed.org

2- select "sign up"

3) "as a parishioner " -

SS Joachim and Anne - Attica NY

4) it will request Name and Email. That should get you in .

5) .....enjoy your subscription!!


Who Is Jesus?

K - 5th grade: Adventure Catechist - Who is Jesus?


Grades 6 - 8th Grade “Who is Jesus? Just a Good Man or Lord of Our Lives?”

Y Disciple / Symbolon /Edward Sri 15 min


Grades 9 – 11 HS video The Search “Who is Jesus?”


 

SAFETY

To keep our kids safe, we not only have special ongoing training for all adults who have leadership roles, but also special training for kids. This has been in practice for almost 20 years through VIRTUS and Protecting God’s Children program. The kids program is called Empowering God’s Children, and Marlene sent you information previously on Flocknotes about the lessons we presented this year. Again, if your kids missed class, or you are interested in seeing what was showed, here are the Youtube links below. It appears the videos they provide us are the same year to year, but the focused topic, activities or worksheets change year to year, with this year’s theme being Identifying Safe Adults, and Safe Special Adults. The HS activity focused on how to give appropriate advice to friends in need of help.

Also below the video links is the complete Teaching Boundaries and Safety Guide for Parents. Pages 5 – 8 are relevant to this years’ theme.



Safe Env Parent Take Home Teaching Handbook 24pgs
.pdf
Download PDF • 1.06MB

 



PRAYER and ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI:

At Father George’s requests we are incorporating more spontaneous prayer opportunities into each lesson this year. We spent some time talking about how to pray, the prayer process, or created Prayers of the Faithful for our next youth mass.

October 4th is the Feast of St. Francis, so we spent some time learning about him, his Peace Prayer and closed our evening singing Make Me a Channel of Your Peace/ Prayer of St. Francis.


Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.


 

The following docs were either presented in class or included in the Take Home Packet:


5 Fingers of Prayer for Kids from The Religion Teacher:

5 five-finger-prayer-handout
.pdf
Download PDF • 164KB

St. Francis Facts gathered from catholic.org:

St. Francis Facts
.docx
Download DOCX • 36KB

40 Ways to Foster Prayer in the Home from Loyola Press

40-Ways-to-Foster-Prayer-Booklet-Eng3199
.pdf
Download PDF • 4.57MB

Peace Prayer of St. Francis coloring page from Loyola Press:

PeacePrayerofSaintFrancisColoringPages
.pdf
Download PDF • 1.05MB

 

THE WILD GOOSE for parents

The parents that stayed during our class time enjoyed the beginning of a dvd video series & discussion that our parish book club has done in the past called The Wild Goose with Fr. Dave Pivonka. It is about the influence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and will continue next time we have class in November. Coincidentally, it is also available on the FORMED platform,



as well as from it’s own platform: The Ministry of the Wild Goose:


 

If you do not have a printer, we have Take-Home Packets in the rectory and in the church. We also have given out copies of the book Rediscover Jesus, one of Matthew Kelly’s many easy reading titles, to round out our Who is Jesus? theme for the month. We may refer to some content in this book in future lessons. Request your copy anytime.


See you next at the Movie Night, Friday Oct 15th in the auditorium.

Please consider signing your child/ren up for our next Family Outdoor mass Oct 23rd, 4:30 Varysburg, after which is a cook out and bonfire. We request as part of faith formation that all children/youth participate at least once per year in helping and learning the various roles during our family masses. They are needed and are our future!

May God bless and keep you safe and well.

Yours In Christ,

Maureen



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