{"id":11888,"date":"2025-10-17T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/?p=11888"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:40:53","slug":"faith-formation-news-234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/2025\/10\/17\/faith-formation-news-234\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Formation News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Families,<br \/>\n<strong>We have been busy at our Faith Formation classes. The students were given materials to make wooden spoon saints. Each student will decorate their spoon with the saint they chose. The projects are due on or before October 29th. You can see everyone&#8217;s hard work displayed in our Gathering Area at church when you come to Mass the weekend of All Saints\/All Souls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Gospel reminds us that the Church is built on the foundation of faith in Jesus Christ. Peter announces the core of our faith, that Jesus is God\u2019s only Son. The family, as the domestic church, has this same faith as its foundation.<\/p>\n<p>As you gather together as a family, talk about people whose faith has helped you to be a member of the Church and talk about what you have learned from leaders in our Church today. Read together today\u2019s Gospel, Matthew 16:13-20. Talk about what you know about Peter and his importance to the early Christian community. Talk about what we can learn from Peter and his profession of faith about Jesus. Conclude in prayer together by praying today\u2019s Psalm or an Act of Faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take Time to Chat<\/strong> &#8211; How often do you pray? Share a memorable prayer experience you have had. Do you think God gets tired of listening to our prayers? Today&#8217;s Gospel helps us to arrive at the correct answer. God knows all our needs. Why do you think he still wants us to pray? Who do you talk to about your faith?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family Fun &#8211; Play Mass<\/strong> &#8211; Jesus talks about the necessity to pray always. One way the Church does this is by celebrating Mass. Pretend to celebrate Mass at your house. Give everybody a part (Priest, Deacon, Lector, Server, Usher, Cantor, Sacristan, Congregation Member, etc.) or act it out using stuffed animals or dolls. Set up a space and collect things around the house to use while you play.<\/p>\n<p>Partners in Faith,<br \/>\n<em>Phyllis Chudzinski<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Families, We have been busy at our Faith Formation classes. The students were given materials to make wooden spoon saints. Each student will decorate their spoon with the saint they chose. The projects are due on or before October 29th. You can see everyone&#8217;s hard work displayed in our Gathering Area at church when&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-11888","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\/11888","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=11888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11889,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions\/11889"}],"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=11888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}