Hellooooo! Lesson Recap and HW for 12/5/22

 Hello All,

I again thank you for your extraordinary patience while I was so ill for many weeks.  Canceled classes and sub teachers and nothing consistent at all.  All the same, I feel like the kids and I are getting to know each other and that makes me happy!   I know a lot of my students have been sick too, I'm empathetic and I know the inconsistency of class time will shake out in the end. 

Our pillars for this year of learning are the life of Jesus as read in the Gospel books and learning the Apostles Creed inside and out.  Not just memorizing it, understanding what each line of it means in depth so when we pray it, the kids understand totally what they are professing.  

With that said, there is zero point in learning about the life of Jesus OR about the Apostle's Creed if the kids have ZERO relationship with God.  So, a real dive into prayer has been the focus of the past two classes. 

Kids, review this 6 minute video from Fr. Mike Schmidtz.  We watched it in class, but it is worth a second watch: 

We've covered contemplative, meditative and vocal prayer in class two weeks ago - the HOW.  Last Monday we discussed TYPES of prayers and the handout was a prayer planner of sorts: 

Adoration:  Praising God

Contrition: Asking God's forgiveness

Petition:  Asking God for a favor

Thanksgiving:  Showing God gratitude 

Students:  You were asked to write in on your worksheet a plan for the week for your prayer time.  You will need to make a focused plan daily to intentionally talk to God in prayer.  

HOMEWORK:  The kids were asked to keep a daily log of when they prayed and for how long.  I don't need personal prayer intention details, but they need to tell me that they prayed and how it went in a few lines.  They will turn this into me. 

Video Lessons and HW Due 10/24

 In my video lesson, my brain froze when I was speaking of the 5 Covenants of God in the Old Testament.  Here they are in order: 

Adam

Noah

Abraham

Moses* (the one I forgot, oops!) 

David 

HOMEWORK LINK - DUE 10/24

Kids, watch my video first - it is 10 minutes long.  Then you will need to watch the next video from Catholic Central while you are working through the homework assignment.  The video is 7:30 minutes and the worksheet is basically a listening guide. 

Leo's family is bringing the snack on Monday!

Class Canceled 10/17

 This was also. emailed to you: 

Dear Parents,

I'm sorry if this is a repeat message if Margi Loesel, DRE, has already sent one.  I don't see anything in my inbox, so I'm sending my own email.  

My 12 year old came down with a high fever and a respiratory infection last Wednesday.  She's been home from school ever since.  She has a very deep, wet cough and is miserable.  

Usually this would not disrupt my being present in class!  But my husband and my 17 year old daughter have had tickets for a concert in MD for a few months now and they will not be home tonight.  My son is not quite mature enough yet to deal with anything that might come up this evening with my sick 12 year old daughter, so I cannot teach.

We did try to find a sub - no one was available.  Please see the blog tomorrow - there will be two recorded lessons and a bit more homework than usual so we don't get too off track. 

Thank you and God bless!

Jess Gaulden 

Homework Due on 10/17/2022

 

HOMEWORK LINK 

Remember to bring a saint quote to share in class!  Choose either St. Francis of Assisi or St. Faustina.  

Homework Due 10/3

 Hello kids!  Guess what?  My children brought home a respiratory virus from school and my throat is really sore and not up for making a class video.  I did record a video about Mary/Rosary back in 2020 during the early days of the pandemic that will have to do this week, even though I wanted to do a lesson specifically for you guys.  

In this video you need to focus on minutes 3:00 - 8:00, which is focused on the history of the Rosary.  A "rosary" is an enclosed rose garden.  Maybe you've heard of an orangery?  It's just like that but with roses, not oranges.  The name of the Rosary - the grouping of prayer beads that we use to pray to Mary - comes from Mary being associated with the rose flower.  More details in the video.  Keep an ear out for St. Dominic - he is credited for giving the Church the more modern version of the Rosary that we pray to this day.  He lived in the 13th century (1200s).  He founded a religious teaching order, the Dominicans.  They wear a large Rosary on their left hip, in place of a sword.  During that period, swords were common for knights to fight.  The Rosary was the Dominican mens' "sword"!  The Rosary is a very powerful prayer, to be sure.  

You can watch the entire video if you like, but the parts about the Old Testament Covenants and Mary being the Ark of the New Covenant are probably not going to make sense to you yet - that deep dive into Salvation History and the Sacraments will be covered in RCIT2, next year. 

We are covering the Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries of the Rosary this week.  Same format as last week - look up in your Bible and put them in order. 

LINK to HOMEWORK due 10/3

Also, please remember that we learned about St. Therese of Lisieux this past week.  Canonized saints are those people who lived holy lives and also went through a process by the Church (usually takes many years) of vetting, miracles associated with their intercessions (when people pray asking them to ask Jesus on their behalf), etc.  All the saints we learn about in class are CANONIZED saints.  This does not mean there aren't a lot of unknown saints in Heaven.  Many people have lived holy lives of love and service and have passed from this life to the next quietly.   

We use the saints as guiding lights for our path to Heaven.  Think of them like lantern posts that light the way.  They are all unique and used their God given talents and lives in lots of different ways.   We are ALL called to be saints.  We are all made in the likeness and image of God, but we are all different too.  

Remember that all the windows above the Rosary windows in the sanctuary at Holy Trinity are of canonized saints.  When they designed the church they purposely put them up high so we'd have to "look up" to them.  

BRING A QUOTE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX TO CLASS TO SHARE.  

Looking forward to seeing you all next week!  

Homework Due 9/26

 1) Watch weekly class video for instructions: 

Rosary Prayers: 

Our Father

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be

thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,

on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our

daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we

forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us

not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Hail Mary 

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.  Blessed are you amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.  Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.  Amen. 

Glory Be

Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.  As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall ever be, world without end.  

Fatima Prayer

O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who are in most need of Thy mercy.

2) HOMEWORK  CLICK on this link to get to your Scripture/Rosary homework.  PRINT IT.   

You will be looking up the Scripture passages in the Bible and finding out what each passage is about and then write it out beside the Scripture notation on the worksheet.   Then, after you have them all, you will write the correct number of the mystery beside your notes.  

For instance, if the first Scripture you look up is about the birth of Christ, you will write a number *3* beside your brief notes.   Use the below to help you number them correctly.  

Joyful Mysteries in correct order: 

1) Annunciation 

2) Visitation 

3) Nativity of Our Lord 

4) Presentation in the Temple 

5) Finding Jesus in the Temple 

Luminous Mysteries in correct order: 

1) Baptism of Jesus

2) First Public Miracle of Turning Water into Wine (Wedding Feast at Cana)

3) Proclamation of the Kingdom 

4) Transfiguration 

5) Institution of the Eucharist (Last Supper) 

3) Watch this 4 minute video about our saint of the week, Padre Pio: 

Be prepared to come to class able to tell me (I will call on a random student) which two virtues Fr. Mike says are the two most important marks of St. Padre Pio's holiness.   Write them down on your note card/paper with your Padre Pio quote that you chose to share in class.  

*Every single week you will be required to bring in a quote to share of a saint we studied the week before.  

Homework Due 9/19

GOOGLE DRIVE LINK TO ALL DOCUMENTS FOR THIS CLASS 

Also, your saint quotes for this week are St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross/Edith Stein OR St. John Vianney.  LOOK UP A QUOTE, copy it out, be ready. to share in class.  Choose one saint/one quote.