Tag Archives: Confirmation

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The Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Understanding

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Objective: The middle school youth will develop a deeper awareness of what the gift of understanding is and how they can use it to help them view their worlds from the eyes of their hearts. Overview: According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “Faith seeks understanding”: it is intrinsic to faith that a believer desires to know better the One in whom he has put his faith, and to understand better what He has revealed; a more penetrating knowledge will in turn call forth a greater faith,

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The Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Wisdom

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Objective: The middle school youth will develop a deeper understanding of the gift of wisdom that is given to them by the Holy Spirit. Overview: Wisdom comes from the translation of the feminine Hebrew noun, hokma. According to the Old Testament, wisdom is God’s created, feminine companion before creation: I, Wisdom, dwell with experience, and judicious knowledge I attain. Pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate. Mine are counsel and advice; mine is strength; I am understanding.

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Merge

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Goal of the Life Night: To bring the teens to a deeper understanding of the three Sacraments of Initiation and the permanent change affected bythese Sacrament. Life Night at a Glance: Teens generally take the Sacraments of Initiation for granted. They are seen as the “hoops” they must jump through in order to become a full member of the Church, as if God’s Family is some type of social club. Not true! The Sacraments of Initiation lay the foundation of our “MERGING” into the Divine Life and into