Last month we focused on the family: families in general and your family in particular, and we hope you spent some time taking a closer look at just how amazing your family is. No matter what your family looks like – 1 child or 10, single parent, grandparents, cousins or not, adopted siblings, birth parents – YOU are a collection of unique and unrepeatable individuals and that makes your family absolutely one of a kind. We’re all broken in different ways, but there is also a beauty in entrusting even that to Jesus and seeing how He works through it. Whatever your family makeup and whatever your situation, God has put you together for a reason and that’s worth celebrating.
This month, we are taking a closer look at Jesus. You probably know that we celebrate His birth at Christmas, but why was He born and how can we know it’s true? God created all of us out of love to live in communion with Him, but that friendship was broken with the first sin of Adam and Eve and every other sin we’ve all committed after that. But God never gives up on us. He wants us to truly know Him so we can truly love Him, so He sent His son so we would know what He’s like. Jesus said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” (Jn 14:9) We hope your family is blessed this month by “seeing” Jesus a little more clearly.
Lesson Notes are a quick overview, including tips and tricks, to go with each of the Home Lessons. You’ll find Notes for Home Lesson 2-1 here, Home Lesson 2-2 here, and Home Lesson 2-3 here, and the Advent Activities Packet here.
How can we know God exists?
Q & A: When Your Child Doubts the Existence of God: Encouraging advice from Focus on the Family.
FAQs About the Relationship Between Science and Faith: Frequently asked questions about the relationship between science and the Catholic faith from The Society of Catholic Scientists.
Father Mike Schmitz Reminds us of Our Inherent Dignity as Children of God:
Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God from Aquinas 101: One of the greatest questions of all time is whether God exists. This short video gives an overview of St. Thomas Aquinas’ five proofs.
What is the historical evidence that Jesus Christ lived and died? This article sheds light on the question.
Making Introductions: In Home Lesson 3 we pretend we are introducing ourselves to someone for the first time. This short Manners Monday video from the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist is a fun lesson on just how that works.
Would You Like Some Musical Prayer Time? King of Kings by Chandler Moore would be perfect with this month’s topic!
This One Thing That Makes Christianity Different From Every Other Religion: Father Mike presents CS Lewis’s argument for who Jesus really is.
Family Formation 