Listen to this parent session at home between Root parent series 5 and family meeting 5.

Listen between family meetings 5 & 6 of Nourish. In this parent session, you'll consider the image of a cup and how the bread and wine transform to the body and blood of Jesus. Supplies you'll want to grab before listening are a cup, something to drink (a little wine, maybe?), a pen, and a piece of paper.

In this parent session, we break down some of the content from Parent Series 3 to prepare for Root's family meeting 3.

April Topic: On Mission

Hallow Meditation: St. John Vianney on the Eucharist

John Chapter 6 - The Bread of Life Discourse

"He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me."

John 6:56-57

• Each sacrament gives a characteristic grace to the one who receives it.
• In Communion, Jesus teaches and strengthens us by nourishing our souls
• Communion allows us to receive the fruits of Jesus' self-sacrifice on the Cross: salvation (Heaven) and sanctification (holiness).
• We are sent (Missa) to put into practice what we have learned and use the graces we have received.

Summer goals

• Family Relationships
• Family Rituals
• Reaching Out

"Be a reservoir rather than a canal"

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March topic: Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Hallow meditation: Who do we need to forgive?

Fr. Brown: The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

• Confession restores the graces of Baptism.
• Jesus gave the Apostles His authority to forgive sins.
• Essential parts of the Sacrament:
  • Being truly sorry (Contrition)
  • Confession to a priest
  • Intention to not sin again
  • Intention to do penance (Satisfaction)
  • "I absolve you of your sins"
• In Sacraments, we encounter through our senses what is actually happening in our souls.

Christ's Teachings on forgiveness

• The Our Father - Matthew 6:9-15
• Christ on the Cross - Luke 24:34
• The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant - Matthew 18:21-35
• The Beatitudes - Matthew 5:3-12
• The New Covenant - Matthew 26:28
• Saying on Forgiveness - Luke 17:3-4

Discipleship Discipline

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• Domestic Church - a household of persons, united through sacramental grace, and committed to living out the Christian vision of love in their relationships with each other and the world.
• Priestly role of Baptism - Through this every activity a family is involved with—in and out of the home--is consecrated to Christ. We serve our children as bridges to God.
• Respect role of parent as “primary educator.”
• Virtue/Good Behavior doesn’t spontaneously happen when bad behavior is stopped.
• Reason, Religion, and Lovingkindness
• Challenges parent to grow in self-control, compassion, joy

Train the young in the way they should go; even when old, they will not swerve from it. Proverbs 22:6

St. Brendan Confession Times

Wednesdays 6pm-7pm

Saturdays 9am until all are heard

March 28: Penance Service 7pm-9pm

April 11: Reconciliation Monday 4pm-9pm

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Pray | Fast | Give

Repentance & Conversion

• From beginning to end, Scripture calls us to repentance & conversion
  • Mark 1:15
  • Isaiah 1:16-17
  • Joel 2:12-13
  • Ezekiel 36:26-27
  • Lamentations 5:21
• Repentance & conversion are a response to God's grace
• External acts display our response - these can be public or private

Pray

• • Rosary
  • Sorrowful Mysteries
  • Stations of the Cross
  • Scripture
    • Penitential Psalms
    • Songs of the Suffering Servant
  • Daily reflection & meditation
  • Eucharistic Adoration
  • Spiritual Reading
  • Daily Mass
  • Confession

Fast

• No meat Fridays (abstinence)
• Ash Wednesday and Good Friday fast & abstinence
• Sin was a result of breaking a fast
• Grow in dependence on God
• Break from attachments
  • Social media
  • Sweets & alcohol
  • Screen time

Give

• Almsgiving
• Tithing
• Giving as a sacrifice, not from excess
• Time & talent
• Works of mercy
• "Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs." -St. John Chrysostom

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• The Greatest Commandment: Luke 10:27
  • “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."
• The Ten Commandments
  • Commandments 1-3 tell how to love God
  • Commandments 4-10 tell how to love others
• The Good Samaritan: Luke 10:29-37
  • "Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robber's victim?" He answered, "The one who treated him with mercy." Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
• The Judgement of the Nations
  • "Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me."
• Corporal Works
  • Feed the hungry
  • Give drink to the thirsty
  • Shelter the homeless
  • Visit the sick
  • Visit the imprisoned
  • Bury the dead
  • Give alms to the poor
• Spiritual Works
  • Counseling the doubtful
  • Instructing the ignorant
  • Admonishing the sinner
  • Comforting the sorrowful
  • Forgiving injuries
  • Bearing wrongs patiently
  • Praying for the living and the dead

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