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NEW TESTAMENT LESSON PLAN
Essential Question for this Course (5 sessions): What message for the sake of our salvation is God seeking to reveal in and through the New Testament?
- “Guiding” Question for this session: What are key backgrounds necessary for understanding the synoptic gospels?
Learning Targets (Selected from the Catechetical Framework for Lifelong Faith Formation)
- MA 1.1.12 In the Gospel, people see and hear Jesus summon others to accept, live, and share the Kingdom of God. The proclamation of the Kingdom of God was fundamental to Jesus’ preaching.
- MA 1.1.13 Jesus’ invitation to enter his Kingdom comes in the form of parables. Through his parables he invites people to the feast of the Kingdom, but he also asks for a radical choice: to gain the Kingdom, one must give up everything.
- MA 1.3.17 The Kingdom of God lies ahead of Christians. It is brought near in the Word incarnate, it is proclaimed throughout the whole Gospel, and it has come in Christ’s death and Resurrection. The Kingdom of God has been coming since the Last Supper, and in the Eucharist, it is in one’s midst. The Kingdom will come in glory when Christ hands it over to his Father.
- “Guiding” Question for this session: What are distinct messages and themes from each of the three synoptic gospels?
Learning Targets (Selected from the Catechetical Framework for Lifelong Faith Formation)
- MA. 1.2.16 The Church has always and everywhere held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels, the heart of the canon, are of apostolic origin and faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ taught and did for one’s salvation.
- MA 3.4.13 If the governing authority imposes a law contrary to the moral order, the fundamental rights of the people, or gospel teachings, then citizens are obliged in conscience not to obey such a law.
- MA 4.1.11 The Lord’s Prayer sits at the center of the proclamation, that in Jesus Christ the Kingdom of God is at hand and realized; therefore, the Lord’s Prayer is said to be a summary of the whole Gospel.
- MA 6.1.8 By its very nature the Church is missionary and the faithful are called by God as lay, ordained, or religious to take on the mission of Jesus Christ. Those called are to bring the Gospel by word and deed to all peoples and to every situation of work, education, culture, and communal life in which human beings find themselves.
- “Guiding” Question for this session: What are the distinct messages and themes from the fourth gospel? How are we to read and understand the Acts of the Apostles?
Learning Targets (Selected from the Catechetical Framework for Lifelong Faith Formation)
- MA 1.1.1 Jesus the Christ, one person in two natures, is the center of 1.1.1 all life and faith.
- MA 1.1.5 The Incarnation is the mystery of the wonderful union of the divine and human natures in the one person of the Word.
- MA 1.1.6 Belief in the true Incarnation of the Son of God is the distinctive sign of Christian faith.
- MA 1.1.7 The title “Son of God” signifies the unique and eternal relationship of Jesus Christ to God the Father: he is the only Son of the Father. To be a Christian and thereby come to share in the divine nature, one must believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God made man who died, was buried, and rose.
- MA 1.1.16 The Word became flesh so that all people might know God’s love.
- MA. 1.2.20 God revealed to Moses the nature of his being: “I AM WHO AM.” Christians are pilgrims of love and truth journeying towards God who has revealed himself as Love and Truth.
- “Guiding” Question for this session: Who was Paul and what messages do his letters have for us today?
Learning Targets (Selected from the Catechetical Framework for Lifelong Faith Formation)
- MA 3.3.34 The charity of Christ is the source of all one’s merits before God.
- MA 3.3.35 Grace, by uniting one to Christ in active love, ensures the supernatural quality of one’s acts and consequently their merit before God and others.
- MA 3.3.40 No one can merit the initial grace which is at the origin of conversion. Moved by the Holy Spirit, because of God’s free choice to allow people to participate in the work of his grace, people can merit for themselves and for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life, as well as necessary temporal goods.
- MA 3.3.41 One of the effects of sanctifying grace is justification; it is granted to Christians through Baptism and has been merited for all by the Passion of Christ. It conforms people to the righteousness of God, who justifies them. In that justification one’s sins are remitted and the inner person is renewed and sanctified. This grace has for its goal the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift of eternal life. It is the most excellent work of God’s mercy.
- MA 6.1.15 In order that its evangelizing witness might be effective, the community of faith is called to live out the admonitions of St. Paul: “Let charity be genuineKlove one another with brotherly affectionKrejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality.”
- “Guiding” Questions for this session: What are the messages of the non-Pauline epistles and what significance do they have for us today? How are we to read and understand the Book of Revelation and what significance does it have for us today?
Learning Targets (Selected from the Catechetical Framework for Lifelong Faith Formation)
- MA 3.2.27 Encounters with people and situations exist that both support and challenge living the Christian way of life. The Eighth Beatitude calls Christians, secure in the promise of heavenly reward, to seek hope in Christ during times of difficulty and persecution, and to be witnesses to Jesus and the Church. One is never to respond to evil, violence and persecution in kind.
- MA 3.3.3 Given the total goodness and omnipotence of God, the existence of evil and suffering in the world is and remains a great mystery. Christians recognize that there is not a single aspect of the Christian message that is not in part an answer to the question of evil. The fact that God permits evil, which he has not created, to exist derives in part from the fact that God respects the freedom of his creatures. With faith and confidence, Christians profess that in the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ all suffering and evil will ultimately be redeemed.
- MA 3.3.34 The charity of Christ is the source of all one’s merits before God.
- MA 3.3.35 Grace, by uniting one to Christ in active love, ensures the supernatural quality of one’s acts and consequently their merit before God and others.
- MA 3.3.40 No one can merit the initial grace which is at the origin of conversion. Moved by the Holy Spirit, because of God’s free choice to allow people to participate in the work of his grace, people can merit for themselves and for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life, as well as necessary temporal goods.
- MA 3.3.41 One of the effects of sanctifying grace is justification; it is granted to Christians through Baptism and has been merited for all by the Passion of Christ. It conforms people to the righteousness of God, who justifies them. In that justification one’s sins are remitted and the inner person is renewed and sanctified. This grace has for its goal the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift of eternal life. It is the most excellent work of God’s mercy.
