{"id":12984,"date":"2026-11-06T07:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/?p=12984"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:47:40","slug":"faith-formation-news-288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/2026\/11\/06\/faith-formation-news-288\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Formation News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Families,<br \/>\nIn the daily activities of family life, we can easily find excuses for not attending to our spiritual lives. If not given top priority, prayer and reading Scripture risk becoming occasional activities rather than daily practices. In today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus reminds us that if we fail to give our spiritual life priority, we will find ourselves unprepared to receive Jesus. Daily prayer and spiritual practice keeps us ready to receive Jesus. Gather together as a family and talk about some of the things our faith calls us to do every day and every week to keep God first in our lives. Talk about what might happen if we don\u2019t do these things regularly. Explain to your family that Jesus taught us that it is important to keep ourselves ready to receive him when he comes again. Tell them to listen as you read the parable that Jesus tells in today\u2019s Gospel. Read aloud Matthew 25:1-13. Talk with your family about why Jesus says that it is so important to remain ready to receive the Kingdom of Heaven. Pray together that your family will always keep God first in their lives so that you will all be prepared to receive Jesus when he comes. Pray together the <strong>Act of Hope: <em>O my God, relying on your infinite mercy and promises, I hope to obtain pardon of my sins, the help of your grace, and life everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Redeemer. Amen.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Partners in Faith,<\/strong><br \/>\nPhyllis Chudzinski<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/52sundays.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">52sundays.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/loyolapress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loyolapress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 11th &#8211; Class 5:30-7pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday, November 14th &#8211; Confirmation Retreat 1pm with Rite of Enrollment Mass at 5pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday, November 18th &#8211; Class 5:30-7pm<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Families, In the daily activities of family life, we can easily find excuses for not attending to our spiritual lives. If not given top priority, prayer and reading Scripture risk becoming occasional activities rather than daily practices. In today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus reminds us that if we fail to give our spiritual life priority, we&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-12984","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\/12984","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=12984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12985,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12984\/revisions\/12985"}],"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=12984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}