Small Lived Experiences of the Faith
Based on Signs of Life by Scott Hahn

This Week's Focus:
April 25 (4th Sunday of Easter)

Theme:  Priesthood
Chapters in the Book:  21 (pages 143-148)  

Sunday Readings:  ENGLISH     SPANISH

Tami Maurer, Coordinator of Religious Education
Grades K-2
Video:  Who is the Priest?
Activity & Craft:  Learning about Priests' Vestments

Grades 3-5
Video:  The Catholic Priest
Activity:  Lesson Plan (including "Create Your Own Diocese" game) on the Priesthood from the USCCB

Grades 6-8
Video:  The Catholic Priest
Activity:  Holy Orders Crossword Puzzle

Chad Grube, Director of Adult Faith Formation & Evangelization

"The purpose, therefore, which priests pursue in their ministry and by their life is to procure the glory of God the Father in Christ. That glory consists in this-that men working freely and with a grateful spirit receive the work of God made perfect in Christ and then manifest it in their whole lives. Hence, priests, while engaging in prayer and adoration, or preaching the word, or offering the Eucharistic Sacrifice and administering the other sacraments, or performing other works of the ministry for men, devote all this energy to the increase of the glory of God and to man's progress in the divine life.

            -- Presbyterorum Ordinis (Vatican II Document on the Ministry & Life of Priests)

Resources

• Resources on FORMED
  • The Priest Is Not His Own by Ven. Fulton J. Sheen (AUDIOBOOK)
  • Institution of the Ministerial Priesthood (from Catholic Answers - Ready Reasons)
  • The Joy of Being a Priest by Cardinal Christoph Schonborn (AUDIOBOOK
  • The Meaning of the Priesthood Today with Fr. Larkin (on FORMED Now)
  • Symbolon:  The Catholic Faith Explained (Living the Faith, Episode #5)
  • Holy Orders (part of ECHO with Bishop Donald Hying)
  • Sacraments in Scripture by Dr. Tim Gray (EBOOK)
     
• Outside Resources
  • Answering the Internet's Most Asked Questions about Priests with Fr. Mike Schmitz
  • Melchizedek Priesthood by Dr. Brant Pitre
  • Jesus & the New Covenant Priesthood by Dr. Brant Pitre
  • What is the Catholic Priesthood? with 4 CFR Friars
  • Why Won't Catholicism Allow Women Priests by Bishop Robert Barron
  • What Does the Bible Say about Priests?  (Part of "Pints with Aquinas") with Matt Fradd & Dr. Andrew Swafford
  • Why a Celibate Priesthood by Tim Staples with Catholic Answers
  • Fishers of Men - Catholic Priesthood from USCCB
  • Presbyterorum Ordinis (Vatican II Decree on the Ministry & Life of Priests)
  • Priests in the Early Church and in Vatican II (1998 Vatican Document from Congregation on the Clergy)
  • Letter of Pope Benedict XVI Declaring the Year of the Priest (2009-2010)
  • Church Fathers on the Priesthood from New Advent