{"id":11757,"date":"2025-09-05T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/?p=11757"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:30:20","slug":"faith-formation-news-228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/2025\/09\/05\/faith-formation-news-228\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Formation News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families,<br \/>\n<strong>We are in need of aides to assist the Lead Catechists in the classroom and also substitute Catechists we can call to fill in. If you are interested, please call the Faith Formation Office at 734-261-5920 or email Phyllis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The beginning of today&#8217;s Gospel is teaching us to love God even more than our own family members. Is it possible to love God that much? Why or why not? Today&#8217;s Gospel also teaches us about what it takes to be a disciple of Jesus. Do you think it&#8217;s hard to be a disciple of Jesus? Why or why not? To be a disciple requires us to sacrifice things in our life. Is being a disciple of Jesus worth the sacrifice? Liturgy Link- Look at your church&#8217;s Stations of the Cross; how many stations show Jesus carrying the cross?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family Prayer<\/strong> &#8211; Pray the Stations of the Cross- While often prayed during Lent, the Stations of the Cross remind us of Jesus&#8217;s journey with the Cross. As a family, pray the Stations at your Church, find an outdoor set at a retreat center or cemetery, or pray the Stations at home. Scan the QR code to pray this version:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family Challenge<\/strong> &#8211; There are many ways to demonstrate carrying your own cross as Jesus did; one way is sacrificial giving. As a family, identify something your family can give up for the week, such as a luxury or a favorite activity; donate the saved resources to a charitable cause or your parish.<\/p>\n<p>Partners in Faith,<br \/>\n<em>Phyllis Chudzinski<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families, We are in need of aides to assist the Lead Catechists in the classroom and also substitute Catechists we can call to fill in. If you are interested, please call the Faith Formation Office at 734-261-5920 or email Phyllis. The beginning of today&#8217;s Gospel is teaching us to love God even more than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-formation","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11758,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions\/11758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}