October 25, 2020

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

This Week's Focus:
October 25 (30th Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Theme:  Morning Offering
Chapters in the Book:  11 (pages 83-88)

Sunday Readings:  ENGLISH     SPANISH

Tami Maurer, Coordinator of Religious Education

Grades K-2
Video:  Lets Discover the Rosary
Activity:  Rosary Hopscotch
Resource:  A Children's Prayer Guide (printable)
Snack Idea:  Chocolate Chip Rosary Snack

Grades 3-5
Video:  All About the Rosary
Activity:  Easy Rosary Craft
Resource:  How to Pray the Rosary Coloring Page
Snack Idea:  Harvest Rosary

Chad Grube, Director of Adult Faith Formation & Evangelization
“Morning prayers can also be offered privately while preparing for the day (while shaving, bathing, fixing hair, and so on).  Yet there is great advantage to saying at least some morning prayer, perhaps the Morning Offering, as a family.  It sets the tone not only for the individual but also for the family.  By so doing, we unite our corporate family life under the Lordship and merciful heart of Christ.”
        -- from The How-to Book of Catholic Devotions by Mike Aquilina & Regis J. Flaherty

“The simple soul who each day makes a morning offering of "all the prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day''—and who then acts upon it by accepting unquestioningly and responding lovingly to all the situations of the day as truly sent by God—has perceived with an almost childlike faith the profound truth about the will of God. To predict what God's will is going to be, to rationalize about what his will must be, is at once a work of human folly and yet the subtlest of all temptations. The plain and simple truth is that his will is what he actually wills to send us each day, in the way of circumstances, places, people, and problems. The trick is to learn to see that—not just in theory, or not just occasionally in a flash of insight granted by God's grace, but every day. Each of us has no need to wonder about what God's will must be for us; his will for us is clearly revealed in every situation of every day, if only we could learn to view all things as he sees them and sends them to us.”
        -- from He Leadeth Me, by Father Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.

Resources

• The Royal Priesthood of the Laity with Fr. Jack Peterson
• Vatican II and the Power of the Laity with Bishop Robert Barron
• The Vocation of the Laity with Fr. John Hollowell
• 2Minutes2Virtue – Imitate Our Lord in Morning Prayer (from Diocese of Arlington)
• Christifideles Laici (1988 Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation from St. John Paul II on the Vocation & Mission of the Lay Faithful)
• Apostolicam Actuositatem (Vatican II Document on the Apostolate of the Laity)
• Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Previously known as the Apostleship of Prayer)
• Pope’s monthly prayer intentions for 2020