School Year 2023-2024
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Religion Class
Announcement: Test on Thursday, March 21, 2024
Coverage: Sacrament of Service
Second Trimester
Grade 6
Peter’s Confession About Jesus
A Reading from the Gospel of Mark: 8:27–35
Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said to him in reply, “You are the Christ.” Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him. He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.”
Focus Questions
1. What was Jesus’ first question to the disciples? How did they respond?
2. What was Jesus’ second question to the disciples? How did Peter respond?
3. What do you think Peter’s response reveals about his faith in Jesus?
4. What did Jesus teach after His discussion with the disciples?
5. What must a follower of Jesus do to “come after” Him? Why?
Grade 7
“Who Do You Say that I Am?”
Directions: Read the reflection below. Then answer the reflection question.
In Jesus’ time, much like today, there were many ideas about who Jesus was. Some believed He was a prophet, or even Elijah returned from the dead. Some, like Peter confessed Him to be the Christ, the savior. In everything that Jesus did and taught, He continually defied expectations. He went beyond simple categories and labels. Jesus is so much more that what the people said of Him – then, and today! The important question for us today is the same as it was to the disciples then, who do we say that He is? Do we believe that Jesus is our Lord and Savior, the Christ? One thing is for certain, Jesus very clearly told us what it means to follow Him. In simple terms, it means to become more Christ-like in our own lives. That means bearing our own crosses with patience and with joy. The things of this world will not save us. But Jesus already has saved us by His Cross and Resurrection. We must accept the gift of life that Jesus offers us and take up our own crosses and follow Him.
Reflection Question: Who is Jesus? What does He mean to you? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grade 8
The Call of Moses
Directions: Read about God’s call of Moses from the book of Exodus. Then, answer the focus and reflection questions.
Exodus 3:7-10, 4:10-12
But the LORD said: I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry against their taskmasters, so I know well what they are suffering. Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them up from that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now indeed the outcry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen how the Egyptians are oppressing them. Now, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt. Moses, however, said to the LORD, “If you please, my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of speech and tongue.”The LORD said to him: Who gives one person speech? Who makes another mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now go, I will assist you in speaking and teach you what you are to say.
Focus Questions:
1. What caused God to reveal Himself to Moses?
2. What did God call Moses to do?
3. What excuse did Moses give to God?
4. How did God respond to Moses?
Reflection Question: How was the deaf man Jesus heals in the Gospel of Mark 7:31–37 like Moses? How are you like him? What do Jesus’s words to the deaf man and God’s words to Moses mean for us and our own insecurities and weaknesses?
Date Posted: March 12, 2024
Due Date: March 19, 2024
N.B.
Please submit your work to: kcavaness@stjosepheo.com, rignacio@stjosepheo.com, to your parents and to yourself as well. Two points deduction for each day of delay, and failure to submit five days after due date will get a zero.
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