Grade 2 – Chapter 5 STEP 1 - WELCOME STEP 2 - INVITE STEP 3 - DISCOVER STEP 4 - LIVE STEP 5 - CLOSING Jesus is the beloved Son of God; born of Mary. Jesus is the Savior of the world who showed us God the Father’s love. Share with Your Students “What’s Up” -Leading a group means guiding them step by step through the time together, so let them know what’s next -Be specific when guiding them to what else they can expect from the lesson. It allows students to feel comfortable knowing what else they may experience throughout the class -Being specific helps our brains to envision directions -Put directions in the positive – “Keep your glass up” – helps us get it right -When we put them in the negative – “Don’t spill that!” – we envision spilling the glass and often do just that!
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Grade 2 – Chapter 5
STEP 1 - WELCOME
STEP 2 - INVITE
STEP 3 - DISCOVER
STEP 4 - LIVE
STEP 5 - CLOSING
Jesus is the beloved Son
of God; born of Mary.
Jesus is the Savior of
the world who showed
us God the Father’s love.
Share with Your Students “What’s Up”
-Leading a group means guiding them step by step through the
time together, so let them know what’s next
-Be specific when guiding them to what else they can expect
from the lesson. It allows students to feel comfortable knowing
what else they may experience throughout the class
-Being specific helps our brains to envision directions
-Put directions in the positive – “Keep your glass up” – helps us
get it right
-When we put them in the negative – “Don’t spill that!” – we
envision spilling the glass and often do just that!
STEP 1 - WELCOME
Community Activity – coloring sheet or word search
STEP 2 – INVITE
Let us Pray
• Say prayer
• Pray the Our Father
• Use this story after the opening prayer, before you tell the children that God sent
his Son.
• Have the children list first names that they like.
• Point out how names can make us feel special and distinguish us from others.
• After connecting our names with the name of the Son of God, transition back to
the lesson instruction.
• Oh, what great names for girls there are!
Rebekah and Sarah are Old Testament names.
There’s Mary and Margaret, sisters they were.
Teresa and Monica, names for Saints!
• Oh what great names for boys there are!
Joseph and David are Old Testament names.
Peter and Matthew, Apostles they were.
Francis and Nicholas, names for Saints!
• Read God’s word and talk about What do you Wonder questions
STEP 3 – DISCOVER
• Review the Holy Trinity with the children and how they learned about God
the father last week. This week we are learning about another part of the
trinity – God the son.
A Savior is Born
• Read the 1st paragraph and ask the children what special name God gave
his son
• Read the 2nd paragraph
Review what the Annunciation is (scripture background) and then read God’s
word.
• Discuss the paragraphs
o Activity – Jesus Comes to Us!
The Holy Family
• Read about the Holy Family
• Read God’s word section
• Discuss what is happening in the picture
Jesus begins his work
• Read paragraph
• God’s Word section
STEP 4 – LIVE
Our Catholic Life
• Read paragraphs
• Complete the chart together.
Saints Lesson
Read “The Saints are like us”
Activity – Saint Cube (May have the children do this after the lesson with their
parents.)
Show the pictures and read about the saints.
Take Homes
• Encourage the children to share the Family and Faith section with their
parents.
• Chapter Review
STEP 5 – CLOSING
Closing Prayer
Our Father
• Say the Glory Be and make sure the children are doing the sign of the
cross correctly.
Saint Cube
St. Teresa of Avila
Teresa was the daughter of noble parents in Spain. When she was only 7
years old, she and her little brother liked to read stories from the lives of
the saints. One of their favorite games was playing “hermit” in their
father’s garden.
When Teresa was still quite young, she became crippled by disease and
was unable to walk. She prayed to St. Joseph who cured her. Teresa lost
her mother when she was 12. She begged the Mother of God to be her
mother. Five years after her mother’s death she joined the Carmelite
Order. She built many new convents.
By a life of constant prayer, Teresa brought many souls to Jesus. Her many
writings show her great love of God. She wrote these beautiful words: “Let
nothing trouble you; let nothing make you afraid. All things pass away.
God never changes. Patience obtains everything. God alone is enough.”
On Oct 4, 2582, Jesus appeared to Teresa with many saints. She begged
him to take her to himself. After her prayer, her soul was taken to heaven.
She is the patron saint of Spain, those with headaches, aviators, and writers
Saint Therese of Lisieux
She is also called St. Therese of the Child Jesus. When she was 8 years old
she was cured because a statue of the Blessed Virgin smiled upon her.
When Therese was still very young, she did kind little deeds for everyone.
She prepared for her First Holy Communion by making many little
sacrifices. She became a special friend of Jesus. She once said “From the
age of three, I never refused our good God anything. I have never given
Him anything but love.”
Therese entered the Carmelite convent at the age of 15. She wanted to save
souls, and to help priests save souls, by prayer, sacrifice, and suffering.
Her “Little Way” means love and trust in God.
She is called the Little Flower of Jesus because she loved the Infant Jesus
and, like a child, did little things to please God. When she was dying, St.
Therese pressed her crucifix to her heart and, looking up to heave, she said,
“I Love Him! My God, I Love You!” She died in 1897 when she was 24.
She is the patron saint of foreign missions, florists, and gardeners.
St. Maximilian Kolbe
St. Maximilian was born on Jan 7, 2894 in Poland and became a Franciscan
priest. He contracted tuberculosis and, though he recovered he remained
frail all his life.
The year before his ordination as a priest, he founded the Immaculate
Movement. After receiving a doctorate in theology, he spread the
Movement through a magazine and helped form a community of 800
Franciscan men, the largest in the world.
He went to Japan and built a comparable monastery and then to India
where he furthered the Movement. In 1936 he returned home because of
his poor health. After the Nazi invasion in 1939 he was imprisoned and
released for a time. However, he was arrested again in 1941 and sent to the
concentration camp at Auschwitz.
On July 31, 1941, in reprisal for one prisoner’s escape, ten men were chosen
to die. One was a young husband and father. Father Kolbe offered himself
in his place. He was the last to die, enduring 2 weeks of slow death
through starvation, thirst, and neglect.
He is the patron saint of families, prisoners, and journalists
Saint Nicholas
Nicholas was born at the end of the 3rd century. He was ordained a priest,
and appointed abbot of a monastery. He was very generous to the poor.
He showed himself the special protector of the innocent and the wronged.
Once he heard that a man who had become very poor was going to
abandon his three daughters to a life of sin. Nicholas went out by night,
flung a bag of gold into the window of the sleeping father and hurried
away. Later the father fell at his feet and said “Nicholas, you are my
helper. You have delivered my soul and my daughters from hell.”
St. Nicholas is regarded as the special patron of children. The word Santa
Claus comes from his name. He died at Myra in the year 342. He has
always been venerated in the Latin and Greek Churches but the Russian
Church seems to honor him more than any other saint. He is the patron
saint of Russia.
He is the patron saint of children, merchants, and travelers.
Saint Francis of Assisi
As a young man, Francis liked to have a good time. His father was rich.
Once, when he was sick, Francis heard our Lord calling to him to leave the
world and follow him. Francis began to visit hospitals and to serve the
sick. He used to say “When one serves the poor, he serves Christ himself.”
Francis put on the clothes of a poor shepherd and began to preach to the
people about peace with God, peace with one’s neighbor, and peace with
one’s self. He looked on all people and things as his brothers and sisters
because they were all created by the same God.
Francis took 12 young men to Rome with him and the Pope gave him
permission to start a new religious order, the Franciscans. He also helped
St. Clare to start the order known as the Poor Clares.
Francis had a vision in which he saw Jesus hanging on the Cross. The
marks of the 5 wounds of Jesus were left in his hands, his side, and his feet,
which remained with him all his life. He also loved animals and had a
very special way of talking to them.
He died on October 4, 1226.
He is the patron saint of animals and birds, ecologists and ecology and is