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Coulter • All Is Gift: Enjoying the Presence of God
Editorial
Why Sofia CavallEtti for all
MontESSorianS
by David Kahn… |
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Patricia Coulter is a critical editor and insightful translator
whose… |
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forEWord
by Marcel Gervais
Emeritus Archbishop of Ottawa
There are… |
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atrium with the children (part two). Through these dialogues, we
are… |
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PrEfaCE
by Patricia Coulter
People are aching to hear a hopeful word… |
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God with Children, and Gianna also appears in some photographs
as… |
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exchange that children may be accustomed to in school, where chil-… |
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God’s power to communicate with children as well as their capacity… |
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1. Margaret O’Gara, “The Study of Theology,” in No Turn-
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aCknoWlEdGMEntS
by Patricia Coulter
With profound gratitude to… |
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Part onE
thE CatEChESiS of thE Good
ShEPhErd With adultS |
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introduCtion to Part onE
by Patricia Coulter
Part one is divided… |
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could be called the face of God that children manifest as profoundly… |
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thE abCS of ChriStianity
by Sofia Cavalletti
translated by Patricia… |
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damental “sounds” of God’s Word; that is, those essential events
(… |
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If theological elaboration is a second moment, it must neces-… |
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reveal Christ as the bridegroom. For instance, there is the parable of… |
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them like the dewfall, so that they may become for us the Body and… |
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The Gift of Baptism and the Language of Signs. During this first… |
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We have not managed to concretize them in material in the way
we have… |
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been experienced and enjoyed. That is, it is important that the… |
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nEEd for God
Historical Context
Generally, the type of religious… |
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in response. Most frequently it is the mother, then the father, and… |
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parables in the New Testament in which the Father of Jesus is
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(in Italian, esperienza) and a vital need (in Italian, esigenza).… |
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3. the particular quality of joy that gives them peace; and
4. what… |
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that were held in this school, but there was none of this at home;… |
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having found it say, “I am happy.” There was a child named Stefania… |
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is the foundation of the Christian message. Listening to the Good… |
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Foundation of Love
We proclaim this parable to children because it is… |
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of Advent, they first come to hear about Jesus through the events… |
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I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice.
So there… |
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blood. And a child of God cannot live without the sap of the True… |
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younger children. Rather, it comes from the parable itself, which… |
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will say, “prayer.” This is something very obvious for them. I would… |
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relation to the grandeur of God and God’s gifts, and we avoid the… |
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refer to other parts of Scripture. For instance, we have mentioned… |
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Part tWo
thE CatEChESiS of thE Good ShEPhErd
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introduCtion to Part tWo
by Patricia Coulter
Along with the… |
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thE CatEChESiS of thE Good ShEPhErd
With ChildrEn
by Sofia… |
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tive associations in varying degrees. Now I was seeing this sacrament… |
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Third, naturally the children are primary in the atrium notes.
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S: What is it about?
C: (Offer several responses.)
S: How many… |
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touched not only because Jesus was God but because he
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Photo 2. The wooden cabinet in the atrium for the “middle children”… |
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S: So many were waiting for this child… a child like you
all are, but… |
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As they discuss this, their sequencing and placement of these objects… |
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his history in the Bible (pointing to all the parts of the timeline… |
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January 29, 1976
Gianna and Sofia present the Kingdom of God timeline… |
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S: And where are we in this long history…?
C: (All the children go to… |
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S: Why have you put these sheep with candles attached
to them…?
C:… |
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during it, meditatively. Sofia reads the verse of the creation of… |
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S: The richness of God is in all….
C: We have it now.
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C: Because we must love as God loves.
~ (Brings the parable of the… |
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C: (The same child responds): To love God ... to help God… to… |
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~ If my light grows, all grow.
~ (Refers to the person in parable of… |
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Photo 8. The side chapel in Chiesa Nuova Church with the image of St… |
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and ask, “I don’t see anything around who is capable of
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C: From then on it’s one road.
~ But the light always becomes more… |
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Photo 10. The chapel with the two side panels open through which the… |
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S: What kind of prayer...?
~ Asking God for forgiveness.
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Then she refers to the yellow-colored timeline section and asks why… |
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~ Close the door of your heart.
~ When someone asks for your tunic,… |
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~ The Good Shepherd.
~ The Found Sheep.
~ Jesus says, “patience.”… |
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S: The “altar table”…The banquet of creation is so great,
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“the unity of the Vine” and shows that we are “really part of the… |
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do our part to make the road ready because we know who
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suggest, as they move through the prayers, “Why don’t we sing…?”
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They focus briefly on the time before Christ’s coming and “enlarge… |
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novEMbEr 18, 1976
Sofia gathers two groups together, the children… |
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C: He rose from the dead.
S: And history goes on… and we are living… |
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Once gathered, their attention is called to the “practical” aspects:… |
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S: Because Jesus is always living, always risen…. And what
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How else do Bedouins live? They live close to nature and in
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development from the rest of the peoples….And they
were….
C: The… |
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Through this dialogue between the God who speaks and
Abraham who… |
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S: This is what God said to Abraham and Abraham’s response
to God—… |
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When Abraham saw their child perhaps he wondered, Where
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it. God had offered him something extraordinary and
Abraham believed… |
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MarCh 10, 1977
Last week was the Mass with all the children. The… |
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S: This union with God, who is the source of life and light…
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S: Who knows us all by name….
~ We are branches.
S: We live with… |
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S: Where do you think he was mistaken…?
C: He kept it all for… |
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MarCh 24, 1977
Sofia is meeting for the third time with the older… |