March Family Faith Packet

Topic: Jesus Compassion in His Passion MEMORY VERSES: The Memory Verses are a means of reinforcing the topic of the month by memorizing a verse from the Bible that speaks to the topic of the month. Encourage your kids to return to the next Family Faith Session knowing their memory verses and they will receive a little treat (non-food) from their Catechist. The CD included in the first month has both the memory verses for the year and the Books of the Bible to help with memorization. Good Idea: Try posting the Memory Verses somewhere where the kids will see it often for example on the refrigerator

Hey Dad! Dont forget to read the Hey Dad section on the Opening Page (lower left margin) of each weeks topic, which calls out to Dad to play a special part each week!! Good Idea: Start each Family Faith Session off by lighting a candle and saying a family prayer. This helps everyone center themselves and quiet down.

Week 2 March 16th Topic: Eastern Catholic Churches Focus: We all belong to Universal Catholic Church. Read the opening page, which helps us understand the commonness among the different rites of the Catholic Church and encourages us to pray for full unity. 1. Check your supply box. This week you will need: scissors, pencils, markers/crayons/colored pencils, hole punch, yarn/string, glitter pens

2. Eastern Catholic Rites a. A Rite is a specific way of celebrating the sacraments a result of different cultures adopting different ways to celebrate the sacraments b. How can different rites be part of the same Church? i. Important beliefs in common how these celebrations look are different

3. Eastern Catholic Church Today a. Eastern Rite Churches are no longer localized to the country where they originated and are spread throughout the world b. You can attend Mass at an Eastern Rite Church and receive communion there too! ACTIVITY: Pysanky Eggs Three different ways of designing eggs according to this Eastern European art of egg decorating.

Eastern Rite Church in the area: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church 508-580-2235 457 Oak Street; Brockton, MA