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Edge Semester Planning Guide: Prayer

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The Prayer of St. Francis

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 Through the prayer of St. Francis, the middle school youth will come to understand how a strong prayer life is only truly effective if it is reflected in the way they live and the way they treat one another. Overview: St. Francis is known for his sayings, “It is no use in walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching” and “Preach the gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” These sayings summarize the life of St. Francis. He lived for others and he

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The Prayer of St. Michael

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 Through the prayer of St. Michael, the middle school youth will come to see how prayer can help them stand up against temptation. Overview: In order to truly be Christian, one must recognize the reality that the devil is present in the world. The temptations we face in life are a tactic used by the devil to pull us away from God. The devil desires for us to reject God and seeks to destroy our relationship with Christ. Life is a constant battle between good and evil. […] prayer is

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The Prayer of St. Joseph

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Objective: Through the life and prayer of St. Joseph, the middle school youth will develop a deeper understanding of intercessory prayer. Overview: St. Paul reminds us that we are all one family in Christ: “As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ” (1 Corinthians 12:12). As believers we share in the body of Christ not only with those alive today, but all the holy men and women who have gone before us. We are family with

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Eucharistic Adoration

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 The middle school youth will learn how they can grow in their faith by giving thanks to God in Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Overview: The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: The Eucharist is a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Father, a blessing by which the Church expresses her gratitude to God for all his benefits, for all that he has accomplished through creation, redemption and sanctification. Eucharist means first of all “thanksgiving” (CCC 1360). As Catholics,

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Contemplative Prayer

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 The middle school youth will learn the basics of contemplative prayer and how to let go of everything so they can focus on only seeing and hearing Jesus. Overview: In the book of Matthew, Jesus tells us, “when you go to pray, go to your inner room and pray in secret” (6:6). The practice of contemplative, or centering prayer, helps us to pray in this way. Contemplative prayer requires that we let go and detach ourselves from all thoughts and allow there to be actual silence in our

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Praise and Worship

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 The middle school youth will learn that there is an external expression of prayer as well as an internal expression, and they will have the opportunity to offer their praise and worship to God. Overview: In addition to taking time to pray internally and allow God’s love to grow in our hearts, God desires that there is an outward expression of prayer. […] God seeks worshippers in Spirit and Truth, and consequently living prayer that rises from the depths of the soul. He also wants

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The Lord’s Prayer

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 The middle school youth will come to a deeper understanding of the Lord’s Prayer and learn how to apply the principles of this prayer to their lives Overview: Often Jesus makes things quite simple for us, as He did with this prayer that He taught us, which we call the Lord’s prayer or the Our Father. The disciples asked Jesus how to pray and He gave them the words to use (Matthew 6, Luke 11). Through this prayer we learn what God wants us to focus on in our prayer lives: […]

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The Rosary

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 The middle school youth will pray the rosary and learn how prayer with the Virgin Mary will always point them to Christ. Overview: As Jesus was dying on the cross, He presented His mother to His disciple and to all of us by saying, “Behold your mother” (John 19:27). Today, we still view the Blessed Virgin Mary as mother to us all. As with any mother, we can turn to her for guidance and prayers and we look to her to show us the way to her son. Mary gave her consent in faith at

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Scripture

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Objective: The middle school youth will experience what it means to pray and meditate on Sacred Scripture. Overview: The Gospel of John reminds us that “in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God” (1:1). Sacred Scripture is not simply words about God, but is the Word of God. The Church has always venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord’s Body. She never ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God’s Word