Unit 4 God Reminds Us to Do His

Unit 4: God Reminds Us to Do His Will Chapter 14: Exile and Remembrance

Welcome & Introduction • • • Attendance Announcements/Updates Review Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Opening Prayer Chapter 14 Faith Words • • exile messiah Unit 4: God Reminds Us to Do His Will Chapter 13: Disobedience and Guidance Chapter 14: Exile and Remembrance Chapter 15: Hope and Faithfulness Chapter 16: Trust and Prayer

Opening Prayer Lord, whatever difficulties our lives bring, help us always stay near to you, trust in you, and follow where you lead us. Amen.

Exile and Remembrance: Share & Activity “Lord, your Son laid down his life to gather your scattered children into one family. ” - Based on the Prayer Over the Gifts, Roman Missal • Read Share section (p. 163) – Recall a time when you were lost and how you felt. – We can be lost for many reasons but God is always there to lead us back to the right path. • Activity: Explain what the person in each picture might be looking for and what might have caused the person to become lost.

Exile and Remembrance: Hear and Believe: Celebration of the Lord’s Passion • Read about the Israelites exile and Lord’s Passion on p. 164

Exile and Remembrance: The Prophets: God Will Send a Messiah Micah Isaiah “From you shall come froth for me/one who is to be ruler in Israel, /…he take his place as shpherd/by the strength of the Lord, /…he shall be peace” (Micah 5: 1, 3 -4) “We had all gone astray like sheep all following our own way. But the LORD laid upon him the guilt of us all. /… My servant, the just one, shall justify the many, their iniquity he shall bear. ” (Isaiah 53: 611) Ezekiel Jeremiah “I will appoint one shepherd over them to pasture them, …” (Ezekiel 34: 23) “See, days are coming…/when I will raise up wisely, /he shall do what is just and right in the land” (Jeremiah 23: 5 -6) Jesus Christ is the Messiah described by the prophets. Christ always is there to bring us back from our own exile – our separation from God because of sin.

Exile and Remembrance: Hear and Believe: Our Church Teaches • exile - the forced removal of people from their homeland to another land. The Israelites captured by the Assyrians were living in exile. Faith Words • • exile messiah • messiah – a person chosen to save people from a particular fate. The word means “savior. ” Messiah, chosen by God to free us from sin and death. During our life on Earth, we are in exile from Heaven. In the Sacraments, especially the celebration of the Eucharist, we meet Christ and receive grace to continue our journey to our heavenly home.

Exile and Remembrance: St. Maximilian Kolbe • • Raymond Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894. He entered into the Franciscan seminary at age 13 and was ordained priest when was 24 in 1918. He took the name Maximilian Mary. • • Worked hard to promote devotion to the Blessed Mother. Mary appeared in a dream when he was 12 years old with two crowns – white and red. The white meant that he should keep himself pure and the red meant he would become a martyr. • During World War II, Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and killed many and drove others out of their homes including Jews, gypsies, Catholic priests and nuns. Father Kolbe hid as many as 2, 000 Jewish people and Poles, who were also persecuted, in his Polish monastery Arrested by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941 with four other priests. There he heard confessions and offered Holy Communion. • • • Offered himself in place a young husband father who were going to be killed. Prayed, sang hymns, and recited the Rosary while waiting to die of starvation. Killed by lethal injection after two weeks. On October 10, 1982, Pope John Paul II canonized Maximilian Kolbe as a “martyr of charity. ” Feast day is on August 14, the date of his martyrdom St. Maximilian Kolbe dedicated his life to the Lord and His Mother. He died as a martyr in the Nazi Concentration Camp, giving up his life to spare other men’s lives.

Exile and Remembrance: Chapter Review • • Review questions on p. 169 Chapter 14: Online Quiz

Closing Prayer: