{"id":12682,"date":"2026-08-28T07:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/?p=12682"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:28:05","slug":"faith-formation-news-278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/2026\/08\/28\/faith-formation-news-278\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Formation News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Families,<br \/>\nOur new school year is approaching! Class starts on Wednesday, September 23rd, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdfsoMKnRMqUXUuJH0c3u-bSNCmY3A_vSC0bHcXOOLs44t7dg\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=114331536102878643589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register here<\/a>.<br \/>\nPeter was expecting a Messiah that would carry out a different plan than the one Jesus had explained. Jesus was indeed the Messiah, but his life and death would show a different understanding of what it means to be the Messiah. We too have expectations of God and our own ideas about what we think God ought to be doing in our world. Like Peter we may risk limiting our image of God by thinking only in human ways. God\u2019s plan is always more than we can ever imagine.<br \/>\nAs you gather as a family, talk about what we expect God to be doing in our world and in our family life. Then read today\u2019s Gospel, Matthew 16:21-27. Why do you think Peter was so upset by what Jesus was saying? Notice how Jesus reprimands Peter. Do we sometimes forget to let God be God for us? That is, do we sometimes get discouraged because God doesn\u2019t act in our world in the ways that we expect? Pray together that your family will remember that God is always working for the world\u2019s salvation in ways that are beyond our human imaginings. Conclude by praying together today\u2019s Psalm, Psalm 63.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liturgy Link<\/strong> &#8211; In today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus predicted his suffering and death. The Stations of the Cross show<br \/>\nhow Jesus suffered and died in the last moments of his earthly life. Find the stations in your church. How<br \/>\nmany stations are there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family Challenge<\/strong> &#8211; Find a recording of Gregorian chant and listen to it.<\/p>\n<p>Partners in Faith,<br \/>\nPhyllis Chudzinski<br \/>\n<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/52sundays.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">52sundays.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/loyolapress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loyolapress.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Families, Our new school year is approaching! Class starts on Wednesday, September 23rd, register here. Peter was expecting a Messiah that would carry out a different plan than the one Jesus had explained. Jesus was indeed the Messiah, but his life and death would show a different understanding of what it means to be&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-12682","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\/12682","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=12682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12696,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12682\/revisions\/12696"}],"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=12682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}