November 14, 2023: Worshipping God

Greetings everyone!

Our most recent class was on November 14, the day after St. Augustine's birthday.

For our opening prayer, we viewed this video of "A Rightful Place", by Steve Angrisano, and its refrain has words based on a St. Augustine quotation: "Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee."

Then, we all created hand turkeys as a way to think about what we're grateful for as we approach Thanksgiving Day.

In our textbook, we looked at Pope St. Gregory I.  He established many important doctrines and the format of liturgy, including the Mass, for how we worship God.

Then, we listened to the following two songs and wrote words from them that stood out to us: "O God You Search me and You Know me", based on Psalm 139, and also "In Christ Alone".

And then we learned more about St. Benedict, who established monastic communities and a Rule for them, a set of principles for how the members are to live in them.

We finished class with a Veterans Day prayer.

Our class will be contributing money for a Christmas Angel gift.  Everyone is expected to bring their money to class no later than December 5.  The money must be taken from allowance or from doing chores.

The only other activity to do at home is to display the hand turkey.  There is no required submission.

We're off from class on November 21, and we're back on November 28.  The tentative plan is to study the Eucharist and what our mission is as the Body of Christ.

As usual, please feel free to contact me with questions, etc.

I pray that you and your families have a blessed celebration of Thanksgiving Day that inspires you to live in a spirit of Thanksgiving each and every day.  And may you have a refreshing time of break.

We remain connected as many parts of the One Body of Christ, the Church:
All my relations.

God's blessings,
Paul

The rim of the rotunda of the Cathedral of St. Paul in Minnesota has words from Psalm 150: "Praise Him with strings and organ. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord."

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