Faith Lesson Plan and Faith Activity Chapter 1 – Divine Revelation Grades 5 & 6 Doctrinal Content • The Bible presents the story of God’s presence and his saving plan for his People. (CCC, 50) • Salvation is the loving action of God's forgiveness of sins and the restoration of friendship with him brought by Jesus. (CCC, 51–55) • The Bible writers used different literary forms to tell stories of God’s presence and action. (CCC, 110) • God is faithful and wants all people to live with him forever. (CCC, 205) Invite – Let Us Pray Invite the young people to gather in the prayer space and make the sign of the Cross. Read aloud the leader's prayer. Proclaim the verse from Isaiah together. Have the children move out of the prayer space and back to their seats. Say: God's words do more than give us information or offer us instruction. With his Word, God made the world. We listen to God's Word not just to learn who he is but to be shaped by it. Listen to how powerful God's words are in this Scripture passage.
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Faith Lesson Plan and Faith Activity
Chapter 1 – Divine Revelation
Grades 5 & 6
Doctrinal Content
• The Bible presents the story of God’s presence and his saving plan for his People. (CCC, 50)
• Salvation is the loving action of God's forgiveness of sins and the restoration of friendship with him brought by Jesus. (CCC, 51–55)
• The Bible writers used different literary forms to tell stories of God’s presence and action. (CCC, 110)
• God is faithful and wants all people to live with him forever. (CCC, 205)
Invite – Let Us Pray
Invite the young people to gather in the prayer space and make the sign of the Cross. Read aloud the leader's prayer. Proclaim the verse from Isaiah together. Have the children move out of the prayer space and back to their seats.
Say: God's words do more than give us information or offer us instruction. With his Word, God made the world. We listen to God's Word not just to learn who he is but to be shaped by it. Listen to how powerful God's words are in this Scripture passage.
Guide the young people through the process of Scripture reflection below. Invite them to close their eyes, be still, and open their minds and hearts to what God is saying to them in this passage. Proclaim the Scripture. Maintain several moments of silence Display and Read the following. Read: Psalm 33:4-9
Ask: What did you hear God say to you in the Sacred Scripture reading? Engage the children to respond. Say: Imagine if you could say something and it happened. If you said "cat," the word itself would become a cat. That's something like what God's Word is like. Invite the children to respond to the questions below. Ask: What else they might wonder about God's Word and what it means to us today. Engage the children to respond.
Discover (1)
Objectives: • Recognize that the Bible presents the story of God's presence and his saving plan for his People • Define salvation as the loving action of God's forgiveness of sins and the restoration of Friendship with him brought by Jesus.
Ask: How do we learn about God and his plan? Engage the young people to respond.
Say: At home and in Mass, in faith formation, and in the parish, we hear stories of faith that teach us about God and what it means to be Catholic. God's own Son, Jesus, was a masterful storyteller. Let us look at why stories are important.
Display and Read the following.
Remind the children that stories have a way of binding families and communities together.
Ask: Why are storytellers are important? Engage the young people to respond.
Ask the question below. Engage the young people to respond.
Display and read the following.
Emphasize Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and Divine Revelation
Ask: What are the two sources of God’s Divine Revelation? Engage the young people to respond.
Work with Words
Review the following Faith Words
Display and Read the following.
Emphasize what the Bible represents.
Quick Review
Say: Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition together are the source of God’s Divine Revelation.
Discover (2)
Objective
• Examine how the Bible writers used different literary forms to tell stories of God’s presence and action • Compare God's faithfulness to Ruth's faithfulness to Naomi • Recall that God is faithful and wants you to live with him forever
Display and Read the following.
Have the young people open their Bibles to the Table of Contents. Pages 2 & 3
Review the chart below emphasizing the different types of literary forms in the Books of the Bible.
Ask: What literary forms do the young people like to read? Engage the young people to respond.
Display and Read the following.
Say: Point out that God is the author of all Scripture, since he inspired the human writings to record his truths and reveal what he wants us to know about himself.
Display and Read the following.
Select three young people to the read the parts of the narrator, Naomi, and Ruth.
Activity:
Arrange the young people into three groups. Have each group reflect on the question below. Then after 3 to 5 minutes, ask the leader of each group to respond.
Quick Review
As the author of all Scripture, God speaks through all the literary forms used by the human writers of the Bible. God is faithful and wants us to live with him forever.
Live: Our Catholic Life
Display the following.
Ask: Engage the young people to respond.
Display and Read the following.
Emphasis Lectio Divina (Divine Reading) Point out that during their faith lesson today, they began with prayerful reflection on Scripture.
Display the following.
Pass out or go online to the Church Bulletins. Have the young people open the bulletin to page 3. Explain Lectio Divina by using the Simple Reading Plan below. Encourage the young people to choose time at home to put this plan into practice and to follow the plan for two day. Explain that at our next class, we will review their readings and how the reading applied to their life.
Review / Main Point
Watch the video - Lectio Divina (Reflecting on Divine Word)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DxaGZqprrs
Ask: What did you learn from the video?
Ask: How can Lectio Divina help you come closer to God?
Saint of the Day:
Saint Teresa was born in Spain. After she had been a nun in a Carmelite monastery for
twenty years, she dedicated herself to reforming many Carmelite convents, which were not
as holy as they could be. One of the first things she did was write new rules based on God’s
Word in Scripture, particularly the teachings of Jesus and the Commandments. Teresa
understood that it was important to listen and learn from God’s Word to lead a good and
holy life. She was serious about God, but also knew it was important to laugh and have fun.
She used to dance in the convents to make the other sisters happy. Because she often
traveled to establish new convents, Teresa was sometimes known as “the roving nun.” She
also founded monasteries for men. Her writings are well known in the Church, including The
Way of Perfection, The Interior Castle, and her autobiography. She is considered a Doctor of
the Church, meaning that her writings have influenced the Church deeply. Saint Teresa is
the patron of chess, lace makers, and against headaches. Headaches are a special concern
