Epistles, Feasts and Sacraments

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2 Peter: Diligence

II PETER/ JUDE

 

Scripture verse (II Peter 1:5-7): “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.”

 

Objectives:

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Revelation: Four Living Creatures

THE REVELATION

 

Scripture Verse (Rev. 4:8): “The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!”

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should memorize the verse.
  2. Students should understand the context of these words in the Divine Liturgy.

 

Background of the book:

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Baptism

BAPTISM

Objectives:

  1. Students should know the Scriptural basis for baptism in the baptism of Jesus and Romans 6.
  2. Students should be able to review the order of the service and its meaning.
  3. Each student should be able to perform an “emergency” baptism.

Possible Lesson Plan:

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Chrismation

CHRISMATION

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should understand the significance of Chrismation as the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  2. Students should know the general order of the service and its meaning.

 

Possible Lesson Plan:

  1. Open with prayer.

 

  1. Scriptural basis: Joel 2:28, Ezekiel 36:25-27, Jeremiah 31:31-34, John 7: 37-39, John 16: 13-14, Acts 1:4-5, Acts 2:1-16, 8:14-17, 19:1-7, Ephesians 1:13-14, II Cor. 6:19-20

 

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Requiem

REQUIEM

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should know the meaning of death in a Christian context.

2.   Students should understand the Orthodox rituals surrounding death.

 

Possible Lesson Plan:

 

  1. Open with prayer.

 

2.   Scriptural basis: John 11:1-46.

 

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Annunciation

THE ANNUNCIATION

Objectives:

  1. Students should be able to identify the characters in the icon and tell the story.
  2. Students should know the date of the feast, March 25
  3. Students should know that Mary is the Theotokos and what that means.

 

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Confession

  1. CONFESSION

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should understand the origin of confession and its meaning.
  2. Students should know how to prepare for confession.

           

Possible Lesson Plan:

  1. Open with prayer.

 

  1. Scriptural basis: 2 Samuel 11:1-12:13, Psalm 51, I John 1:9, Matthew 18: 17, James 5:16, John 20:23, Matthew 16:19, John 8:11

 

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