Dear EDGE Family,
This week at Edge, the Edge Night began with games focused on building community and allowed the youth to get to know one another. The teaching discussed what it means to be a child of God and explored how the youth are a part of the family of God and the Church. After the teaching, the youth had an opportunity to create an Edge family tree as well as to discuss the importance of the community they have in the Church. The Edge Night ended with the youth praying together and for one another.
Main Ideas:
Catechism Reference: “In the liturgy of the New Covenant every liturgical action, especially the celebration of theEucharist and the sacraments, is an encounter between Christ and the Church. The liturgical assembly derives its unity from the ‘communion of the Holy Spirit’ who gathers the children of God into the one Body of Christ. This assembly transcends racial, cultural, social - indeed, all human affinities.” (CCC 1097)
Scripture Reference: “Jesus answered, ‘The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.’” (Mark 12:29-31)
Family Reflection Questions:
This week at Edge, the Edge Night began with games focused on building community and allowed the youth to get to know one another. The teaching discussed what it means to be a child of God and explored how the youth are a part of the family of God and the Church. After the teaching, the youth had an opportunity to create an Edge family tree as well as to discuss the importance of the community they have in the Church. The Edge Night ended with the youth praying together and for one another.
Main Ideas:
- Everyone is born into a family and every family looks different and has their own struggles, but we are called to love them anyway.
- God knows that we cannot live lives of faith alone so, in addition to our families at home, He brings us into the greater family of the Church through our Baptism.
- God calls us to love our friends and our families and to lay down our lives for them in service and self-sacrifice.
Catechism Reference: “In the liturgy of the New Covenant every liturgical action, especially the celebration of theEucharist and the sacraments, is an encounter between Christ and the Church. The liturgical assembly derives its unity from the ‘communion of the Holy Spirit’ who gathers the children of God into the one Body of Christ. This assembly transcends racial, cultural, social - indeed, all human affinities.” (CCC 1097)
Scripture Reference: “Jesus answered, ‘The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.’” (Mark 12:29-31)
Family Reflection Questions:
- What is something that makes our family unique?
- Why is it also important for us to have community outside of our family?
- How is the Church like a family?
- What can we do with week to strengthen our family? (eat dinner together every night, have a family game night, pray together as a family before bed, etc.)