finish reading the section of the encyclical you received in class, "Veritas Splendor" and on a separate sheet of paper, write the main message of the section. Next, find five different sentences that support the main message and write them on your paper. 

Chapter 15 Quiz 

Quiz on chapter 15

Finish the Protestant research handout 

Finish page 259 assignment. 
List the special events or rituals we use to celebrate each day of the Easter Triduum. 

Finish reading through the 2003 Lenten Encyclical from Pope John Paul II. 

On a piece of paper, pick out and record 10 full sentences that you thought were the most significant to you in this document. 
For each sentence, write down why you thought it was significant. 

Reread and finish the encyclical you received yesterday.
On a piece of paper, pick out and record 10 full sentences that you thought were the most significant to you in this document.
For each sentence, write down why you thought it was significant. 

Quiz on chapter 14 

Know:

Notes from chapter 14, chapter 14 review and the kahoot here: https://create.kahoot.it/share/8th-grade-chapter-14/81bb9d83-e5eb-4802-b8e1-caa1c7cf78bb

Finish the Medieval Crossword puzzle handout 

Chapter 13 Quiz on Thursday 

Reminder:

Quiz on Thursday-

Study the chapter review and the virtues handout from Tuesday.
Know each virtue and an example to describe it.  

Chapter 12 Quiz 

Finish the "Search the Gospels" handout 

Chapter 11 Quiz 

read the four accounts of Paul’s conversion.
Acts 9:1-22 
Acts 22:2-16 
Acts 26:9-18 
Galations 1:15-17 
Next, on a piece of paper, make a list of key facts in each passage (at least 3 per account)

 

 

 

 

Saul’s Conversion

9 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest ² and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. ³ As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. ⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

⁵ “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.

“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. ⁶ “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

⁷ The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. ⁸ Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. ⁹ For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.

¹⁰ In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, “Ananias!”

“Yes, Lord,” he answered.

¹¹ The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. ¹² In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.”

¹³ “Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your holy people in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.”

¹⁵ But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel. ¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”

¹⁷ Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” ¹⁸ Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized, ¹⁹ and after taking some food, he regained his strength.

Saul in Damascus and Jerusalem

Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. ²⁰ At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God. ²¹ All those who heard him were astonished and asked, “Isn’t he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?” ²² Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.

 

 

Acts 22:2-16 

Acts 22:2-16 New International Version (NIV)

² When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet.

Then Paul said: ³ “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. ⁴ I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, ⁵ as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.

⁶ “About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me. ⁷ I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?’

⁸ “‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked.

“ ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,’ he replied. ⁹ My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me.

¹⁰ “‘What shall I do, Lord?’ I asked.

“ ‘Get up,’ the Lord said, ‘and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.’ ¹¹ My companions led me by the hand into Damascus, because the brilliance of the light had blinded me.

¹² “A man named Ananias came to see me. He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there. ¹³ He stood beside me and said, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ And at that very moment I was able to see him.

¹⁴ “Then he said: ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. ¹⁵ You will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’

 

Acts 26:9-18 

⁹ “I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the Lord’s people in prison, and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them. ¹¹ Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished, and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was so obsessed with persecuting them that I even hunted them down in foreign cities.

¹² “On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. ¹³ About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. ¹⁴ We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,^[a] ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

¹⁵ “Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’

“ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. ¹⁶ ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. ¹⁷ I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them ¹⁸ to open their eyesand turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

 

Galations 1:15-17 

Unit 2 Test on Friday 

Unit Test 

Quiz on chapter 9- The third mark of the Church (Apostolic) 

Finish the thank you letter started in class. 

Quiz Tuesday on the Church being Catholic 

Quiz on how the Church is Holy. 

Religion quiz on Tuesday on the gifts of the Holy Spirit and notes about the Church being Holy.

Quiz on the notes from this week.

Notes for the Church unity quiz

-A mark of the Church is a visible sign that makes the Church what it is.

 

-Having things in common creates unity, a sense of oneness among people.
-Four visible characteristics, or marks: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.
-The early church was a community of believers who were of one heart and mind because Jesus had sent the Spirit to unite them.

 

-Our unity flows from the trinity and helps us live the way Jesus showed us
-Unity is possible when people share the same convictions, values, vision, and goals.

 

-The Spirit we received in Baptism unites us all in one body.
-Paul tells us that each part of the body is different, but necessary for the body to function properly, just like the Body of Christ.

 

-A charismatic gift is a special, spiritual gift used for the good of the entire Church.
-Ecumenism is an effort to unite all Christians.

 

-Make sure to study the chapter review on page 58.

Complete the John the Baptist handout 

 

Passages for reference: 

 

Luke 1:5-25 

The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold

⁵ In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. ⁶ Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly. ⁷ But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.

⁸ Once when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, ⁹ he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. ¹⁰ And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.

¹¹ Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. ¹² When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. ¹³ But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. ¹⁴ He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, ¹⁵ for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spiriteven before he is born. ¹⁶ He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

¹⁸ Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”

¹⁹ The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. ²⁰ And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”

²¹ Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the temple. ²² When he came out, he could not speak to them. They realized he had seen a vision in the temple, for he kept making signs to them but remained unable to speak.

²³ When his time of service was completed, he returned home. ²⁴ After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. ²⁵ “The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”

 

 Luke 1:39-56

Mary Visits Elizabeth

³⁹ At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, ⁴⁰ where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. ⁴¹ When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. ⁴² In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! ⁴³ But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? ⁴⁴ As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. ⁴⁵ Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”

Mary’s Song

⁴⁶ And Mary said:

⁵⁶ Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.

 

 

Luke 1:57-80

The Birth of John the Baptist

⁵⁷ When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. ⁵⁸ Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.

⁵⁹ On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, ⁶⁰ but his mother spoke up and said, “No! He is to be called John.”

⁶¹ They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.”

⁶² Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. ⁶³ He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.”⁶⁴ Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak,praising God. ⁶⁵ All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things. ⁶⁶ Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?” For the Lord’s hand was with him.

Zechariah’s Song

⁶⁷ His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:

⁸⁰ And the child grew and became strong in spirit^[b]; and he lived in the wilderness until he appeared publicly to Israel.

 

Luke 3:1-18

John the Baptist Prepares the Way

3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene— ² during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. ³ He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. ⁴ As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:

⁷ John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? ⁸ Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. ⁹ The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

¹⁰ “What should we do then?” the crowd asked.

¹¹ John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”

¹² Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”

¹³ “Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them.

¹⁴ Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?”

He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely—be content with your pay.”

¹⁵ The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah. ¹⁶ John answered them all, “I baptize you with^[b] water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with^[c] the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹⁷ His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” ¹⁸ And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.

 

 

Change!! Unit 1 Test on Monday NOT on Friday. 

On pages 14-22, read “The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse.” As you read, use post-it notes to track:
1. On each page write an “I wonder… or I think… -statement.”
2. Setting descriptions
3. On page 22, use one post-it note to write 1-2 sentences paraphrasing the plot in your own words.
4. On page 22, use a post-it note to write down the theme of “The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse.”
5. Extension: Think about the impact the author’s message has on you and how you can apply it to your life. Write it on a post it on page 22.
6. Extension #2: How are you going to act differently now that you read the story? Write it on a post it on page 22.

Finish "A Call to Service/ Signs of a Christian" handout 

Quiz- Chapter 4

Quiz on the Models of the Church 

Be ready to present on your model of the Church. 

Quiz on Friday: chapter 2 review notes on communion of saints, purgatory, and Tradition  

Complete "The Word of God on the Word of God" handout and the "Live up to Your Potential" handout

Quiz on the following information:

 

Notes on the Images of the Church- Mary, Temple, Body of Christ, Bride of Christ

Notes about Mary as the Best image of the Church 
Notes on the Holy Spirit (Sanctifier)

Complete the Marian Feast day handout given on Tuesday. 

Complete “With the Power of the Holy Spirit” Handout with a partner.
Use the information in the book under “Sanctifier” on page 8 and the Bible to find the answers.

 

Quiz tomorrow

Witness- know what it is and know how to be one in a given situation (like the handout from last class)
Be able to explain each Image of the Church that we learned about.

 

Images of the Church you will be responsible for knowing for tomorrow’s quiz:
Sheepfold     Vine and Branches     Leaven
Pilgrim          Salt of the Earth          Light of the World

Quiz on the Act of Contrition (pg. 24 in purple prayer book) and information about the Our Father. 

Quiz on Friday on the Act of Contrition and information about the Our Father 

Quiz on the Act of Contrition and information on the Our Father 

Please make sure to complete the questions on page 5 for the Images of the Church that was started in class. 

 

8th Grade: open to page 5 and read the section titled “Images of the Church.”
Within this section, there are:
4 questions about the Body of Christ
3 questions about the temple of the Holy Spirit
4 questions about the Bride of Christ.

Complete all questions on a separate sheet of paper or your composition book. 

Complete the questions from page 4 in your new religion books under the "Who is Jesus to you?" section. All questions should be answered in complete sentences and on a separate sheet of paper. 

Complete "Lessons from Prayer" handout given in class

Please study for the religion quiz on Friday. You will need to know how to write out the following prayers: 

"Our Father" and the "Memorare" (found on page 36 of the purple prayer book) 

Reminder: Quiz on the "Our Father" prayer and the "Memorare" 

Quiz Tomorrow: Be able to write out the Our Father prayer and the Memorare 

 

Our Father- Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us ourtrespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

 

 

 

Memorare- Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.

Amen.

Complete The Lord's Prayer handout given in class today. #1-7

Complete the "God, Our Father" handout 

Finish Old Testament Packet 

5 types of prayers handout