Friday, September 6, 2013

Day 16

Today I gave my first assessment of the term!  It's beyond weird watching students take "tests" that I have created.  We have covered so much over the first few weeks so I'm hoping they are able to communicate all of that here :)  I'm a huge fan of informal assessments but I thought it would be good to try something traditional at first to see if they are retaining the information I am exposing them to.  Here it is! :)

Assessment 1
God, Us, the Church, and Sacraments of Initiation
Define the following terms:
1. grace
2. transcendent
3. person
4. sacrament
5. efficacious sign
6. nature
7. soul
Short answer:
8. List the sacraments of initiation.
 9. List 3 out of the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit.  Explain what they mean.
 10. St. Thomas Aquinas presented an argument for God's existence.  What does he call God?
 11. Why is it so bold to say "Amen" after we receive communion at mass?
 12. What are the essential words said at Baptism?
 13. What took place at Pentecost?
14. Who founded the Roman Catholic Church?
 15. What are the effects of sanctifying grace in the sacrament of Baptism?
 16. What is the Paschal Mystery?

Fill in the blanks: 
17. The Eucharist is the ­­­­­___________ and ____________ of our faith!
18. The consecrated host is kept in the ________________.
 19. __________________ is the process by which the bread and wine and changed into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
20. What does "In Persona Christi" mean?
 21. What are we called to do as fully initiated Catholics?

True/False:  Write true or false after each question
22.  The Church completes the work of Christ and brings us to unity with the Blessed Trinity and with one another.
23. The sacraments remind us about Jesus but are not actual encounters with Him.
24. Jesus is truly present; body, blood, soul, and divinity, in the Eucharist.

Essay Question:
What makes us (humans) unique out of all of God's  creation?

It's really difficult/not possible for me to assess someone's faith, and I'm not here to do that.  However, I do take on the responsibility of fostering their knowledge which can be evaluated in a formal assessment.  I can't evaluate them based on how they pray or the words that come from their hearts.  That is our Lord's job alone!  Period.  But I can assure you that they do love our Lord and are realizing how awesome it is to be a Catholic!

After their quiz we went to the "Couch Room."  It is literally a room filled with couches for the peer ministry team.  Anyway, I decided since I gave them the assessment, that we could go "hang out." But have no fear, we read a pretty hefty article on the process of beatification and canonization aka how people become recognized by the universal church as Saints.  I've been asked a number of times of how that works.  I have been able to give them a brief summary but since it keeps coming up, we read through the entire process.  Pretty cool stuff!  Check this out if you're interested!  Since the phrasing is very "churchy" I kept pausing and had to explain what terms like infallible, diocesan, papal, etc all mean so they could actual understand what we were reading.   Btw, Blessed John Paul II will be canonized on April 27, 2014!!!

I also showed them this quick video because yesterday one of my students made a comment saying something along the lines that the life of a religious sister seems so sad and lonely.  I was all over that and stood up for the beautiful vocation of religious life!  My last class of the day will be arriving soon so I will conclude this post.  This is the video I showed earlier and what I will be showing.  Don't worry, I did a shout out to all of my friends from Franciscan University but followed that up with another tip to look into Loras College!  

Another 3 day weekend for us over here!  Enjoy your weekend and don't forget to pray and fast for Syria and world peace tomorrow.

“Jesus Christ is counting on you! The Church is counting on you! The Pope is counting on you!” 
– Pope Francis, WYD Rio Closing Mass

You are a member of this body of Christ, and the body needs you right now.
(1 Corinthians 12:12) 

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