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CCD hs: Old Testament + CCC (day 7)
Today, in our high school Confirmation class, we covered Chapter 3 on Old Testament. We also included in introduction the the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) with a project assignment (a report or display or collage) based on individually assigned CCC quotes.
St Veronica (“bearer of victory”) wiped the face of Jesus on the road to Calvary. His image remained on the cloth. Her feast day is July 12, same day as the Holy Face of Jesus.
Interpreting the Bible
- –Literalist
- –Contextualist
“Four Religious Truths” ( 2nd Creation Story)
- –God is one
- –God planned creation
- –God created everything good
- –God made the Sabbath holy
Sin, Personal Sin, Social Sin, Original Sin
Bible books (p34)
Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)
- www.usccb.org/catechism/text/
- “CCC #” = is the paragraph # in the CCC
- –Part 1: CREED (Prof of Faith)
- –Part 2: SACRAMENTS (Celebrate Mystery)
- –Part 3: MORALITY (Life in Christ)
- –Part 4: PRAYER
HOMEWORK:
(1) handout “Rays of Hope” Links, and (2) assigned CCC project (report or display)
songs for prayer + formal prayers
These links are scattered on by blog, but wanted them easy to access. I added the following to the bottom of my PRAYER page. I hope they help you pray!
FORMAL PRAYERS:
- Prayer for God’s Will — by Thomas Merton
- Prayer for the Grace of Letting Go
- B.A.P.T.i.S.M. = different forms of prayer
- 5 Finger Prayer = a way to pray petitions & intercessions
- Litany of the Blessed Sacrament — full prayer
SONG FOR PRAYER:
- “Pray” by Kendall Payne — soft, Christian contemporary (personal humbling prayer)
- “I Can Only Imagine” by MercyMe — soft, Christian praise & worship (heaven)
- “This is a Call” by Thousand Foot Krutch — medium, Christian rock (effectiveness of prayer)
- “Gone” by TobyMac — medium, Christian hip-hop (bad dating relationship)
- “Leaving 99” by Audio Adrenaline — soft, Christian rock (parable of Lost Sheep)
- “Replace Me” by Family Force 5 — hard, Christian rock (submitting to God’s Will)
- “Dare You to Move” by Switchfoot — medium, Christian rock (sin, shame, forgiveness)
- “Meant to Live” by Switchfoot — medium, Christian rock (finding purpose)
- “Somewhere I Belong” by Linkin Park — hard, (feeling & healing)
- “Rise Today” by Alter Bridge — very hard, (finding purpose)
- “Pjanoo” (Original Mix) by Eric Prydz — instrumental, trance
- “Birth of an Angel” by Armin van Buuren — instrumental, trance
Spiderman & Venom
I saw “Spiderman 3“ today, all 2.5 hours of light-speed CGI fight scenes separated by long relationship breaks and some cheesy musical dance numbers by Tobey Maguire. Not being a really big Spiderman fan, I found Venom to be an very interesting character that I knew little about. As an alien symbiote organism that needs to bond and feed off a living host, it gives the host enhanced physical abilities, at the cost of fatally draining them of adrenaline, eventually killing the host. This particular parasite (attached to Spiderman), however, wants to bond with its host instead. It seems to feed off Spiderman’s weaknesses, anger and revenge, and multiplies its devastating, yet tempting (at times) effects. The rejection of the symbiote leave it extremely bitter toward Spiderman, a trait it shares with its future hosts. The movie’s byline reads “the greatest battle lies within.”
What I saw was an extreme visual for our own “dark-sides,” manifested in Venom, who exploits our weaknesses because we’ve fed and allowed it to grow for so long. I don’t know if that’s the intention of the character, but I couldn’t help but connect Venom with deep-rooted sin that’s ignored and allowed to grow. If we could only “see” what our sins do to others, ourselves and, above all, our Savior, we would run to cross in humble submission to His grace & mercy. In ministry, demonstrating that in love & mercy is not done through our own ability, but through our own submission to the “Anti-Venom” that we invite everyday (not just one conversion experience) as a light to our darkness.
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