5th May X Catechism

May 05, 2020

Good Morning and Welcome to our class today! 🙏

Technology - for some reason - there's a different version of "Blogger" onto my computer and I can't find the emoji's I've been using for the blogs each week !!!! But I have been able to copy those of my previous posts - so - I most sincerely welcome you to the class and wish that you are all very well.

I believable that we have a really worthwhile bit of work to do together this week and I welcome you to doing it.

Let's start!

Reminder - if you haven't done so already - please enter your name in the "Comment" space - kindly do this each time you log into the blog post for the class - Thank you 🙏.
Once again, a reminder that when you are on social media (and this interaction is the use of social media for education), we are reminded that this is a public space and that we are called on to be our best selves - so kindly communicate appropriately at all times - in doing so you are respecting yourself and all of us. Thank you!

REVIEW OF PREVIOUS WEEKS / OVERVIEW OF THE WEEK

Let's begin by reminding ourselves of what we have learned and where we intend to go.

Over the last month, we have been

practicing Heartfulness - self-awareness - naming our feelings - being aware of unnamed feelings held in our bodies - becoming aware of the feelings of others
Reflecting on our behaviour - -becoming aware that we determine how we behave - we can be less reactive in life.
Becoming more familiar with the stories of Jesus concerning His suffering, death, and resurrection and continuing to find personal meaning for these beliefs - meaning which we will, hopefully, allow ourselves to experience/live

Over this week we shall be continuing to do this and we shall

taking forward our self-awareness to trying to be aware of our inner voice
Continuing in our process of understanding why and how we each respond.
be focusing on the biblical stories of the Ascension and Pentecost (coming of the Holy Spirit)
setting up and learning certain processes to help us be more interactive

STEP 1 - please have your earphones with you unless you are in a room by yourself (preferably be in a room by yourself)

Please spend a few minuted doing the heartfulness awareness - please click onto the guided meditation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G42Z7-vZvw
Ask yourself

what were my thoughts and feelings as I woke up today?

be with those feelings especially

own them - let yourself feel them

feelings in themselves are just what they are
there's no permissible or not permitted feeling
if I choose to act on my feelings - those actions may be permitted / not permitted / right/wrong - so I need to think having acknowledged and allowed myself to be me (feel)

what have been my experiences since I woke up - how has my day gone ahead? How do I feel about that?
How did I feel about logging onto the catechism class?
Why did I continue to read the blog after entering my attendance?

What feeling did I have?
What thinking went on in my mind?
What got made me to make that decision?

just stay with that - your feelings and thoughts for some time ..........
This is listening to your inner conversations with yourself!
We need practice in this - today, tomorrow and the day after (before we meet again - try and do this when you have some personal time

one of the best times to do this is just before you decide to go to sleep - when you have got into bed

before you end this section invite Jesus to know your feeling, thoughts,..... Jesus will say nothing ..... there's a difference between Jesus and the ego (sometimes we blame God for the harshness of our ego !).

STEP 2

Over the last 2 days or so, is there any action/behaviour of yours which you are genuinely proud of - for example (there will be many others)

I focused well on my classes
I didn't let the frustration of the lockdown upset my interaction with others
I was able to say how I felt / or what I needed to say - whereas previously
I had a satisfying conversation with my friend

so, I have noted the word "proud" to define the feeling - since you are the one who experiences these feelings - can you try to name the feeling you actually have when you think of those events? e.g.satisfied / fulfilled / relieved / joyful............
Why does that or those experiences give you these positive feelings?
What does this tell you about yourself?
Have those experiences built you up as a human being?
let Jesus into your appreciation of yourself and those events/persons.

What feelings and thoughts do you have when you invite Jesus to your memory and feelings of those events?

STEP 3 : you'll need a Bible or you'll need to use the internet on the device you're using for this class.

over the last few classes we were looking at and praying over the stories of the Resurrection of Jesus.
What is the difference between the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus?

did they happen at the same time?
was there a gap of time? If so, how much? Why?
Was the after ascension experience the disciples have of Jesus the same or different?
If the after Ascension disciple's experience of Jesus was different - what differences were there ?

Those are some of the questions I invite you to think about as you open to read Mk 16 : 19, Lk 24 : 51; Acts 1 : 6-11

Please note that Mathew and John do not leave us any record of Jesus' Ascension.

Please think about these questions - and if you feel comfortable ask your parents/elders about them.

So, that's it!

As we end, let us continue to pray for ourselves - life has been requiring some challenges to everyone in the world - we also pray for others - pray for your parents who must be quite concerned over so many matters; pray for your siblings; pray for your grandparents. Pray esp[ecially for our leaders - they have very difficult decisions to make and people will criticize them no matter what decision they make and no decision will go totally correct -it's very difficult. Do pray the "Our Father" it's the best prayer !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUjLd6k6uXk

If the video doesn't play by just clicking onto it -= please copy the URL and open youTube and play it there - thank you !)

Take care - all the best until we meet for the next class!🙏