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Teaching Guide September 30, 2012 • 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Numbers 11.25-29; James 5.1-6; Mark 9.38-48 Gospel Theme: God’s love is for all human beings. In Sunday’s Gospel Jesus tells his closest disciples that God’s love is not reserved for an “in crowd.” Rather, all human beings fit in the embrace of God’s love. Jesus wants his followers to be ready to accept others, to work with them, to learn from them, and to appreciate the gifts they have to share. Visions explores ways young people work to end homelessness and experience how outsiders in our society live. The activity RespectQuest promotes respect and inclusion of others. Share Our Life Stories Gathering Rites/Opening Prayer Page 11 of this guide suggests a special gathering/prayer space in your room. Gather in a circle or semi-circle in the prayer space. Have the young people choose something they have with them to represent who they are. Have them say their names and place the item in the center of their space. Ask them to show hospitality to one another by responding, “Welcome, _______________.” Use the following prayer to conclude. We all come to this group with different talents, backgrounds, and interests. Let us focus on our common bond—a desire to know and be closer to God. Join together now to pray the Our Father. Allow students a minute to collect their belongings before moving on with the lesson. Cover Activity: What Favorites Do We Have in Common? Distribute Visions. Have the young people look at the cover photo. Read the center question and directions aloud. Allow time to write responses; then have students mingle to discover preferences in common. Ask what the biggest favorites are. Objective: The young people will explore homelessness. Articles: 12 Years of Sleep Outs (pages 2-3) and Staying in Cardboard City (pages 3-4) Introduce the two articles by giving the young people time to look closely at the photos. Both focus on ending homelessness. Notice Peter Larson grows older in the first 11 photos. Have volunteers read the article aloud, a paragraph or section at a time. Discuss TALK questions 1-2. Answers: 1. Peter realizes he can help and make a difference. He continues to sleep out because he knows the money he is raising is keeping families in their homes. 2. Open-ended; probably because people take notice when a young person puts a social justice concern before his or her own needs. • Ask your young people if they have participated in events like Cardboard City. Have volunteers take turns reading the article. Discuss TALK questions 3-5. 3. The young people realize they have easy access to food, their camp site is safe and patrolled; they have strength in community. Real homeless people probably don’t have security. 4. Open-ended. 5. Open-ended. Have information available if possible. Listen to the Gospel Objective: The young people will recognize that God’s love is for all. Gospel: Those Not Against Us Are With Us (page 4) Choose four readers to take parts and proclaim the Gospel. Encourage the young people to be expressive in their proclamation. Discuss TALK. Answers: 1. They may have been jealous because the man was not one of Jesus’ disciples. 2. Jesus wants his followers to welcome rather than exclude others. 3. Wholehearted. WCBT, page 11, Jesus’ Mission. Conclude Jesus’ whole life reveals God’s love. Objective: The young people will recognize the readings at Mass are from the Bible. Our Catholic Faith: We Read From the Bible at Mass (page 5) Read the feature aloud as a class. Distribute Bibles. Give the young people time to help each other locate the readings and complete the two questions. Definition: Lectionary (page 5) Read the definition aloud. WCBT, page 20-21, The Calendar of Worship. See the name of the Sunday Gospel, Visions, page 4. Look at the calendar, page 21. Explain that we follow Jesus’ life in the Gospels of the Sundays of Ordinary Time. Build Christian Community Objective: The young people will explore respect. Living the Gospel: RespectQuest (pages 6-7) RespectQuest introduces basic guidelines for a positive and respectful classroom environment. Have your young people do the activity in pairs. • Instruct young people to stop once they get to Mission 7-T. As a class, follow the directions in the panel, and brainstorm ways to bring your group closer together. • After recording their responses on the board, have the young people discuss the question in the final panel, bottom right, in pairs or small groups. Objective: The young people will learn about Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. Christian Leaders: Kateri Takakwitha, First Native American Saint (page 8) Look at the icon and the cutline. Invite the young people to take turns reading the information boxes aloud. Kateri will be canonized October 21. Doctrine: God’s Love Is for All (page 8) Read this summary of Sunday’s Gospel message aloud—God loves everyone, and everyone can share in that love. Closing Prayer Invite the young people back into their prayer space. Ask them to join hands and say the Our Father. TG1-4
Teaching Guide October 7, 2012 • 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Genesis 2.18-24; Hebrews 2.9-11; Mark 10.2-16 Gospel Theme: Christians live in community. Jesus tells the Pharisees in Sunday’s Gospel that from the beginning God made men and women not to be alone but to join together and form families. Human beings are social— created for making bonds of love and friendship with one another; they become inseparably one in marriage. This principle underlies the lifelong, faithful commitment the Church celebrates in the Sacrament of Matrimony. Visions interviews young people about their feelings when parents divorce. They explore in the Gospel Activity who is part of the communities in which they live. Share Our Life Stories Opening Prayer Begin with your gathering ritual. Invite students to offer petitions for personal needs or needs of the world. To each petition all respond: “Loving God, hear our prayer.” Cover Activity: What Am I Like? Have the young people choose an answer in each box. When everyone is finished, read the information in the box at the bottom right together. Find out how many of each character type you have by a show of hands. Objective: The young people will identify problems common when parents divorce or separate. Story: How Do Kids Feel When Parents Divorce? (pages 2- 4) Use the title and photos to introduce the interview topic. Be sensitive because most likely you have children in your group whose parents are divorced. Have the young people read the story aloud as a class or alone silently. Discuss TALK questions. Answers: 1. Open-ended; realizing that parents divorce one another, not their children. 2. Open-ended; celebrating holidays or birthdays; having both parents support them. 3. Open-ended; listen to them, be more patient. 4. Open-ended. 5. Open-ended. Marriage Is a Sacrament (right panel, page 3) This sidebar provides basic information on annulment and how it differs from divorce. Use it as a transition to the Gospel and page 5. Listen to the Gospel Objective: The young people will recognize that lasting love is Jesus’ ideal for marriage. Gospel: Jesus’ Ideal Is Lasting Love (page 4) Have four volunteers proclaim the Gospel. Discuss TALK. Answers: 1. God made human beings male and female, not only for the purpose of having children and populating the earth but so that they could form bonds of love and friendship. 2. Moses allowed divorce because of people’s stubbornness. Jesus says that Genesis tells us that marriage makes men and women one body which must not be torn apart. 3. Jesus’ ideal for men and women is lasting love. WCBT, page 26, Matrimony. Invite the students to read and ask questions. Objective: The young people will recognize that the Old Testament reading helps us understand the Gospel. Our Catholic Faith: Our Scripture Readings Teach Us About Marriage (page 5) Have the young people read this feature and work in groups of three or four to complete the questions. The clear connection between the Old Testament reading from Genesis 2.18-24 and the Gospel, in which Jesus quotes this passage, offers an opportunity to teach how the first reading for each Sunday is chosen because it has the same theme as the Gospel. Definition: Sacrament (page 5) Choose a young person to read the vocabulary word to the class. WCBT, page 62, Sacraments. Review the definition of sacraments. Build Christian Community Objective: The young people will identify important relationships in their lives. Living the Gospel: Who Helps Us Become Who We Want to Be? (pages 6-7) Lead this inventory activity by reading the directions on the left column, page 6. Read each drop down box separately, pausing to give the young people time to fill in each symbol before moving on. When your young people have finished, ask them to note if the same names appear more than once. Ask how they connect with others. Ask volunteers to share some of their thoughts and answers. Don’t be surprised if they want to keep their responses private. Attitudes: When was someone a good friend to you? (page 8) Ask the young people to answer the Attitudes question and compare their answers to those on page 8. Let Attitudes develop into a real discussion. Encourage the young people to talk about the importance of friendships and other close relationships in their lives. Doctrine: God Makes Us for Community (page 8) Have students read this summary of Sunday’s Gospel theme— Jesus calls us to keep working at making and keeping friends. Prayer of Thanks Gather in a prayer circle. Recall friends, family, and other people who have been respectful friends and mentors. Ask the young people to bring forward any prayers of thanks or petitions they have for these people. All respond, “Loving God, hear our prayer.” Note: You will need dice for next week’s lesson. TG1-5
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