WRITTEN REFLECTION

Students need to write 1-2 pages of reflection after the retreat. 12pt, Times New Roman, double spaced. PARAGRAPH Response

Grade 9 Retreat

Birch Bay Retreat Reflection

Instructions: 

• 12 Point Times New Roman Font

• 2-3 Pages (Double Spaced) NO LESS!

• Use the questions below to guide you through your reflection.

• DO NOT ANSWER IN POINT FORM! This needs to be a paragraph response.  

Reflection Portion: 

What were the main points of the retreat? In detail reflect on the events of the retreat. Did you learn anything? How did the theme resonate with you? Discuss at length the above points and include self-reflection; what events during the retreat that stuck with you?

1. What were the main points of the retreat? In detail reflect on the events of the retreat. Did you learn anything? How did the theme (Better Together) resonate with you? 

2. When have you relied on God and others? 

3. Why is it important to spend time within the community and working for others? 

4. What gifts do you have that can contribute to the ABJ community? 

5. How can you rely on other people's strengths in times of need and how does this reflect our theme “Better Together”? 

6. How do retreats connect to our theme and strengthen the community within ABJ? 

Refresher: These were some of the topics we engaged with! Tell us about them. What happened? Why were they important? RECALL, the various topics covered to help with your reflection. 

• The Law/Ethics

• Cosmology (where we came from)

• Community - Why Mass? The Catholic faith is centered on community.

• St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans: (Romans 12:3-8):

  • WE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST

• Miracle at Cana

Check-list: 

• 12 Point Times New Roman Font 

• 2-3 Pages (Double Spaced - NO LESS)

• Discusses the following topics 

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• Did I answer questions 1-5 in detail?

Grade 10 Retreat

Reflection information will be posted closer to the date! 

Birch Bay Retreat 

Instructions: 

• 12 Point Times New Roman Font

• 2-3 Pages (Double Spaced) NO LESS!

• Use the questions below to guide you through your reflection.

• DO NOT ANSWER IN POINT FORM! This needs to be a paragraph response.  

Reflection Portion: 

What were the main points of the retreat? In detail reflect on the events of the retreat. Did you learn anything? How did the theme resonate with you? (Called to Serve)  Discuss at length the below points and include self-reflection; what events during the retreat that stuck with you?

1. What were the main points of the retreat? In detail reflect on the events of the retreat. Did you learn anything? How did the theme (Better Together) resonate with you? 

2. When have you relied on God and others? 

3. Why is it important to spend time within the community and working for others? 

4. What gifts do you have that can contribute to the ABJ community? 

5. How can you rely on other people's strengths in times of need and how does this reflect our theme “Better Together”? 

6. How do retreats connect to our theme and strengthen the community within ABJ? 

Refresher: These were some of the topics we engaged with! Tell us about them. What happened? Why were they important? 

• The Law/Ethics

• Cosmology (where we came from)

• Community - Why Mass? The Catholic faith is centered on community.

• St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans: (Romans 12:3-8):

  • WE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST

• Miracle at Cana

Grade 11 Retreat

Reflection information will be posted closer to the date! 

Birch Bay Retreat

Instructions: 

• 12 Point Times New Roman Font

• 2-3 Pages (Double Spaced) NO LESS!

• Use the questions below to guide you through your reflection.

• DO NOT ANSWER IN POINT FORM! This needs to be a paragraph response.  

Reflection Portion: 

What were the main points of the retreat? In detail reflect on the events of the retreat. Did you learn anything? How did the theme resonate with you? (Called to Serve)  Discuss at length the below points and include self-reflection; what events during the retreat that stuck with you?

1. What were the main points of the retreat? In detail reflect on the events of the retreat. Did you learn anything?

2. How can the 4 Cardinal Virtues improve one’s life and strengthen relationships with others and God? 

3. Which virtue do you struggle with the most? Why might this be? How can you work on improving this virtue? 

4. What virtue would you consider to be a strength of yours? Explain why. 

5. In what ways does AGAPE encompass all of the Cardinal Virtues?

6. How do retreats connect to our theme (Better Together) and strengthen the community within ABJ? 

Refresher: These were some of the topics we engaged with! Tell us about them. What happened? Why were they important? 

THE VIRTUES

• Prudence- Aristotle said “right reason applied to practice.” -Perfects the practical intellect

• Justice- the constant and permanent determination to give everyone his or her rightful due. 

• Fortitude-  Prudence and justice are the virtues through which we decide what needs to be done; fortitude gives us the strength to do it.

  • Fortitude allows us to overcome fear and to remain steady in our will in the face of obstacles, but it is always reasoned and reasonable; the person exercising fortitude does not seek danger for danger's sake.

• Temperance- restraint of our desires.

  • While fortitude is concerned with the restraint of fear so that we can act, temperance is the restraint of our desires so we can act.

• Scripture:

  • LUKE 10:25–37

  • David and Goliath

• Some Ethical Questions:

  •  Grade Inflation:

Grade 12 Retreat

Grade 12 students received their reflection during the retreat!