Grade 7 and 8
Religious Education
Mr. Rossano
September 26, 2016
www.stachurchbloomfield.com/MrR2016
Opening Prayer
• Please see the hand out
Follow up Items from Last Week
1 Samuel 17 - Goliath was 6 cubits - about
9’
1 Kings 3:24 - Solomon, two mothers and
the baby
Four Senses of Scripture
Literal, Allegorical, Moral and Future (Where
God is leading his People)
Religious Education
5th Grade – Sacraments
6th Grade – Old Testament (Bible before
Jesus)
7th Grade – Life of Christ (New Testament)
8th Grade – Life of the Church (Church
History)
We have a group of mostly 7th and 8th grade
students, so we will try to life of Christ/life
of the Church.
Life of Christ
• The Mysteries of the
Rosary highlight
many important parts
of Jesus’ life
• Stained glass
windows are from St.
Thomas
• Incarnation – Jesus
becoming Human
Life of Christ
• Childhood –
Nativity &
Finding in
the Temple
Life of Christ
During Jesus’ life, He
• Recruited the Apostles and sought out
disciples
• Taught by telling parables
• Proclaimed the Kingdom of God
• Performed Miracles
• Prayed and observed Holy Days
Life of Christ
Passion, Death and Resurrection
Life of Christ
Ascension
Life of the Church
Early Church in the New Testament
• Acts of the Apostle
• Paul’s missions through the Mediterranean
areas writing to the Churches
• Other writers like John and Peter.
• Christians witnessing to Jesus by the way
they live their lives
Life of the Church
• Spread of the Church from Jerusalem
• Christianity becoming accepted by the
Roman Empire (Edict of Milan in 313 AD)
• Development of Doctrines/Teachings by
Councils (Bishops gathering to define them
as a group)
• Catholic Responses to Historical events
• Christians witnessing to Jesus by the way
they live their lives
Life of the Church
• Church of Today
• Christians witnessing to Jesus by the way
they live their lives
You are the Church
Mass and Eucharist
• The Mass is the celebration of Jesus’
death and resurrection.
• The Mass is celebrated as a community
and is a public prayer.
• The Eucharist was given to us by Jesus to
spiritually feed us and keep up strong.
• The Eucharist is the “Source and Summit
of our Catholic Lives”
Parts of the Mass
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Introduction Rites
Liturgy of the Word
Liturgy of the Eucharist
Conclusion Rites
• Missa Est – Sending Out at the
End of Mass
Blessing of Animals For Feast of St. Francis
Adoration