“Anointed”

Session Overview for Catechists
Catechist Summary * Slides

• Track A: Monday 12/18/2023, 6:45-8 p.m.
• Track B: Tuesday 12/19/2023 and Wednesday 12/20/2023 in Religion class

Timed Icebreaker (2 min.)

List ways you can help people using your hands.

Opening Prayer (5 min.) for Advent

Responsory for Late Advent and Lighting of Wreath

Drop down dew, ​O heavens: ​Let the clouds rain down the Just One.​
Let the earth be opened: that a Savior ​may bud forth.
On that day the mountains will stream with sweetness: ​And the hills will flow with milk and honey.​
​Come, Lord Jesus! ​ Come soon!

Intro to the Confirming Bishop (15 min)

See slides presented by Ms. Hohner (or Mr. Fix in Religion during the week).

Writing Letters (65 min)

As we prepare to give and receive gifts this Christmas, ​let us take a moment now to give thanks for our greatest gift​ which came to us from God in a most unexpected package.​

He Came Video

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u65m__-LLfs)

Christmas Prayer

Lord, in this holy season of prayer and song and laughter, we praise you for the great wonders you have sent us: ​for a shining star and the angels’ song, for an infant’s cry in a lowly manger. We praise you for the Word made flesh in a little Child, and we thank you for the Son you sent to us to be our Savior and King. We behold His glory, and we are bathed in His radiant light. Be with us through the contradictions of Christmas – the incomprehensible comprehended, the poetry made hard fact, the helpless Babe who cracks the world apart. We kneel before you as humble shepherds, reluctant innkeepers, world-weary Magi. Help us to rise bigger than we are, with more hope and faith to help heal our world.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. 

Closing & Dismissal (5 min)

HOMEWORK

• If not done already, catch up on Journal pages vi-xii, 17, 22-25, 32-34, ​44-47, 64, 67, 75-76
  • 17, 67 probably from Peace & Justice session we have not done for years (no longer Monday class Thanksgiving Week)
  • 75-76 from Fruits of the Spirit session we will do later this year
• Next class session for ALL:
  • Tracks A & B: Monday, January 8 from 6:45 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
  • Letters being taken home to finish are due!

Note for later on:

• Letter to the Pastor assigned as classwork in mid-December, due when come back in January
• Service Hours due, in mid-January
• Retreat II on Friday, February 9 for all students
  • 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., beginning at Parish Center and ending at Church