Thursday, May 15, 2014
Families & Faith
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
GIFT May Follow Up Email
May GIFT Follow Up Email
Thank you for attending our May GIFT
Gatherings: Acting in Justice: Peace. If you were not able to attend the GIFT
sessions this month, please click
the link here to download the
PowerPoint presentation from the event. We are beginning a long-range planning
process – this process will begin with our
PARISH CONVOCATION ON MAY 18TH FROM 11:30-4:00 PM please mark this date on your calendars and plan to attend. We
will be offering child care for those who need it – contact Liz at aff@stmatthiasparish.org to sign up.
The process will examine seven areas of parish life – everyone will be asked to
participate in the areas that are of interest to them. Even if you are new to
the parish, we want your input! Watch the bulletin and parish bulletin boards
for more information!
In order to plan for the June Evaluation gatherings (Sunday,
June 1st from 11:30-1:30 pm and Wednesday, June 4th from
6-8 pm), we ask that you complete the survey found by clicking
here. (survey is in google docs – you
should not need to sign in to complete this, but please let me know if you have
trouble with it).
At this month’s gatherings, the
Catechists led the K-4th grade children through the Faith in Action
chapter for Solidarity of the Human Family in their books. Please work through
the remaining Faith in Action pages. The website for the text is http://calltofaith.osv.com.
The 5-8th graders talked
about the Catholic Social Teaching of Solidarity. We begin the session with an
activity called “The Human Knot” in which we stood in a circle, left hands grasped
a person across from us, right hands grasped another person (so that we were
all tangled up!) then tried to untangle ourselves – we had to work together to
suggest ways to do this – all without letting go of hands! This illustrates our
interconnectedness and how we depend on one another for everything in our
lives. We continued by talking about bullying at our schools. Some schools seem
to be doing a better job at anti-bullying campaigns than others. Some kids have
not experienced bullying and don’t think it’s an issue at all, while others are
quite troubled by it. Some feel that if they “tell” they will only make the
situation worse. I shared a story about being bullied when I was in 6th
grade and how my mom was able to help diffuse the situation through her use of
humor! Ask me about it – it’s quite a funny story!
Other Resources:
Pinterest –
Mary Ideas http://www.pinterest.com/smff2013/mary/
(including our Living Rosary)
Vibrant Faith @
Home – www.vibrantfaithathome.org
This is a great resource – even has a iPhone app –
which offers short 5-10 minute long activities that families can do at home to
explore or teach faith topics.
Sabrina’s Blog
– Do you children ever ask you faith related questions that you are just not sure
how to answer? Or do really cool things related to their faith that you want to
share with the community? If so, follow the blog http://faqsfaithandquestiosn.blogspot.com
Announcements:
·
Thank you for your donations to the
CRS Rice Bowls! We collected $257.50 a very generous donation!
·
We are still collecting things that
we’ll take with us to Ecuador. See the blue bin – collection box in the Hall
for a list of what we are collecting.
·
A Living Rosary will be on Saturday,
May 17th at 11am in the Church.
·
High School Youth Ministry (HSYM)
will meet Sunday, May 18th from 5-7pm downtown RWC. Email me for more
information: cff@stmatthiasparish.org
·
Middle School Youth Ministry (MSYM)
will meet Wednesday, May 14th from 6-8pm at St. Matthias for a potluck dinner
followed by a scavenger hunt. We will be celebrating the Feast of St. Matthias!
All 5-8th graders are welcome to attend.
·
Parish Convocation will be on May 18th
from 11:30-4:00 pm. See above for more information.
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