Pentecost and St. Philip

Pentecost/Philip & Eunuch

 

            This lesson celebrates the birth of the Christian Church and the earliest baptisms and chrismations. The stories are in Acts 2 and 8 respectively.

Home Activities:

• Put the icon of Pentecost in your icon corner for prayers this week; point out each character, the flames, and the dove and discuss the meaning of each. 
• Sit down with your child and look at pictures of his/her baptism and chrismation (or your own).
• When your small child is bathing, let him/her feel the cleaning of the water and see the dirt washing away; compare this to the washing away of sin at baptism.
• Baptize and anoint a baby doll, discussing what is said and why.  With an older child, one could even discuss lay baptisms – practice an emergency baptism that can be done by any Orthodox Christian when a priest is not available.

Prayer: Holy Spirit, come and fill our hearts with your love and wash our hearts clean from every evil thought.

 

 

ANAGRAMS

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HOLY SPIRIT

 

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Philip and the Ethiopian