Ideas for teaching your students about this Sunday’s Gospel, including reflections, sharing ideas, activities and prayer.February 14: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Luke 6:17, 20-26
Feb 08
Lessons for the Sunday Gospel: Feb. 14
Ideas for teaching your students about this Sunday’s Gospel, including reflections, sharing ideas, activities and prayer.February 14: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Luke 6:17, 20-26
Reflecting
Isn’t it great when good things happen to us? We win first prize in a drawing. We didn’t get hurt when we fell off our skateboard. It didn’t rain on our birthday party picnic. When good things happen to us, we often say, “I am blessed.” We may even offer prayers of gratitude for those good things that happen: “Thank you, God.”
In today’s Gospel, called the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus preaches the Beatitudes, from the Latin word beatus which means “blessed.” Jesus tells us that we are blessed not only when things are good but also when things are not good.
When we are poor or hungry or sad or unpopular, we are no less blessed than when we are rich and satisfied and happy and well-liked. God is with us all the time, in all the things we might think of as “good” and in all the things we might think of as “bad.”
When we turn to God and trust in God and rely on God for everything, we are blessed. Every day our prayer can be: Thank you, God, for your special blessing here and now, in what is happening right here in this moment on this day.
Sharing Ideas
How do you feel when you hear Jesus say that we are blessed even when we are poor or hungry or sad or unpopular?
Acting
When things are great and you’re having fun, think to yourself: “I am blessed.” When things are not great and are not just the way you want them to be, think to yourself: “I am blessed.”
Praying
Holy God, we know you are near—always. We raise to you our prayers of gratitude in good times and in bad. Amen.
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