Welcome to St. Patrick CCD Grade 4 with Mr. Rios and Mrs. McGinnis!
Our website’s address is www.hickorytown.com/ccd4/ You may check the website for make-up work. I will post weekly the readings, worksheets, video clips and other assignments for CCD. We use the website on the smart board every night of CCD.
Mrs. McGinnis and Mr. Rios CCD teachers for 4th grade
We try to incorporate the church year holy days and seasons into our curriculum so we jump around in the book. We are very pleased to share our faith with your children. We look forward to a wonderful year.
“I have enjoyed being a catechist for the Sunday Children’s Liturgy of the Word from 2003-2008. This is my eighth year as a CCD teacher. I am a mother of five –my children’s ages range from 16-26. I am married to Jim The Computer Guy. I have a couple jobs outside of motherhood. I am a Respiratory Therapist at Carlisle Regional Hospital. Other times, you may find me at my computer designing websites. Hence, the development of this web site!” – Mrs. Emilie McGinnis
The catacomb are an underground Christian and/or Jewish cemetery consisting of a passage ways with recesses for tombs, as constructed outside of the ancient Rome. In the catacombs, the early Christians may have hid so that they would not be put in prison or killed for their faith in Christ. Pictures were painted in the catacombs of different bible stories of the Old and New Testaments. In the very Early Church Mass was celebrated in the catacombs on the tombs of the martyrs. Today we have an altar stone and a relic* that is placed in the altar to remind us of the church family that has passed (they have died but they are alive in heaven) and the humble church beginnings in the Catacombs.
*Relic: A relic is something connected with a saint or blessed, including a part of their body (e.g. hair or a piece of bone), their clothing, or an object that the person used or touched.
It is not the kind of relic or how big it is that is important, but rather the faith and prayer that the relic occasions. By the communion of saints, it is that person who is close to us, blessing and praying for us.
The veneration(to give honor and reverence) of relics is an ancient custom dating from the reverence shown at the graves of the martyrs even in the time of the apostles.(http://www.motherteresa.org/09_relics/relics.htm)
Why is the right hand of a bishop held in a particular manner when blessing?
It is a gesture of blessing.
The two upraised fingers signify the two natures of Our Lord: divine and human.
The three fingers that are ‘curved’ signify the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
It’s a statement of belief in two key elements of Catholic belief, Our Lord being human and divine in His nature, and Three Persons, One God in the Trinity,
Holywaterblessing4 – We are making Holy Water Bottles. We are using the maple syrup bottles from CrackerBarrel, making a new label, and filling them with holy water from the holy water reservoir at church.
“Lord, God Almighty, creator of all life, of body and soul, we ask you to bless this water: as we use it in faith forgive our sins and save us from all illness and the power of evil. Lord, in your mercy give us living water, always springing up as a fountain of salvation; free us, body and soul, from every danger, and admit us to your presence in purity of heart.”
-the Prayer of Blessing of Water in the Sacramentary
About Saint Patrick:
About Blessed Mother Teresa:
(non-denominational presentation)
Our Prayer Partner Sisters: St. Emma’s Benedictine Nuns
No CCD next week for Holy Week: May God bless you this Easter!
Thank you
Thank you for all the donations of candy and quarters for our Lenten offering. The candy will be used for special Easter baskets for those can not afford such treats and the quarters will go to the St. Vincent de Paul society. They support projects for those in need such as emergency food and clothing.
Jesus gives His final word before the Last Supper: Blest Are We book: Chapter 11 Pages 130-133,136-137 part A. The Commandments/the Greatest Commandment pages: 272-273
4th Luminous Mystery: The Transfiguration NT Matt 17:1-13. Pharisees question about temple tax: Matt 17:24-27,
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Palm Sunday (Jesus’s entry in Jerusalem): Matt 21:1-14,
Jesus washes the Disciples’ feet. John 13:1-17
Jesus Gives Us the Eucharist. The Last Supper/ Celebration of the Passover Seder Meal. Mark 14:17-26
I am sorry for my sins with all my heart.
In choosing to wrong and failing to do good,
I have sin against you whom I should love above all things.
I firmly intended, with your help,
to do penance
to sin no more,
and avoid whatever leads me to sin.
Our Savior Jesus Christ suffered and died for us.
In His name, my God have mercy.
The New Commandment and the Works of Mercy Pages 215-221 Chapter19
(In class, we did a Works of Mercy relay race. Each team member took a Saint Patrick Bottled water and wrote one of the works of mercy down on the board. Then he /she would pass the bottle on to his/her teammate to write a work of mercy on the board. this would continue until all 7 of the works of mercy were on the board.)
The Corporal Works of Mercy
Feed the hungry;
Drink to the thirsty;
Clothe the naked;
Shelter the homeless;
Visit the sick;
Visit those in prison;
Bury the dead.
The spiritual works of mercy are:
Teach the ignorant;
Help others do what is right;
Give advice to the doubtful;
Be patient with others;
Forgive injuries;
Comfort those who suffer;
Pray for the living and the dead.
Thank you
Thank you for all the donations of candy and quarters for our Lenten offering. The candy will be used for special Easter baskets for those can not afford such treats and the quarters will go to the St. Vincent de Paul society. They support projects for those in need such as emergency food and clothing.
Catholic Commandment 1: I am the Lord your God, You shall not have other gods besides me. Includes (Protestant Commandment 2) Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image.
Catholic Commandments 9 and 10 are combined together in the Protestant version:
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor
