Week of November 16

O God, listen to our prayers. We offer you our hearts filled with love.

"Attend to the sound of my cry, my king and my God!" Psalm 5:3

Chapter 6 talks to us about prayer, ways to pray, and why it is important to pray. Prayer is talking and listening to God. Think about when you pray. Do you have a special place that you pray or a special time that you pray? What do you think Jesus prayed for?

Key words

Prayer, Lord's Prayer, blessing and adoration, praise, petition, intercession, thanksgiving

Do the chapter review on page 116

Week of November 9

Please read Chapter 5.

Key words

Seven Sacrements

Last Supper

Liturgy

Nicene Creed

Tabernacle

Blessed sacrament

This chapter tells us that we can worship God with words, silence, music, and actions. What are some ways that you and your family worship God?

Page 102 - underline one way that you have shown respect for God at Mass

Page 103 - fill in the Live Your Faith activity

Have a great week!

Key words to look for: Creed, mystery, and Trinity

There is an activity at the bottom of page 93 that asks tells you to write a letter asking someone about your Catholic faith. Instead of a letter, I would like you to talk about it with your family...maybe at dinner or in the car. Ask someone a question that you may have.

Week of October 26

Please read Chapter 3. This is the last chapter in Unit 1.

Jesus helps us to understand that our families belong to a bigger family we call the Church. Learning how to love each other in our family helps us to learn how to love other people in the world. God uses our families to teach us about love.

Our family members teach us how to care for people and things, why we should respect ourselves and people around us, and how we can help one another.

Who is the mother of the church? How can you honor Mary?

For fun: work on the crossword puzzle on page 83 for a review. I will give you an answer key to help you out

Visitation Image

Domestic Create

Respect Authority

Responsibility People

Church Bible

I hope to see everyone next week on zoom at 5:00. I will email the link out next weekend.

Have a great week!

Week of October 19

Please read Chapter 2.

• Think about why being a part of the church community is so important.

• It's so much fun to meet new friends and have fun while you are in your church community. You can meet new people through PREP, going to church, being an altar server, playing sports through CYO, going to Vacation Bible School, and many others. Do you have other ways you meet people through our parish?

• Think about the ways that Brother Andre helped his community in the chapter.

• Church - the community of all baptized people who believe in God and follow Jesus.

• Sacred Tradition - God's Word handed down verbally through the Apostles and bishops.

• Don't forget to keep reading over the Apostle's Creed. I would love for everyone to be able to learn this prayer by Thanksgiving.

Week of October 11

Welcome to 3rd grade PREP! I hope you had an amazing Communion weekend.

We will be working to learn the Apostles' Creed this year. It is such an important prayer. It is a summary of the Apostles' beliefs and it is used to start the rosary.

Homework: Please read Chapter 1. Make sure you look at the key words.

creation: everything made by God

Holy Trinity: the one God in three Divine Persons - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit

image of God: the likeness of God that is in all human beings because we are created by him

Pg. 58 - check the things you already do. Place an X on one thing that you would like to work on. You can talk about what you would like to do or ask a family member for help.