Student Session for Wednesday, October 26, 2025

3oth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle B)

6:30 p.m.

Share Experiences

Carsten King

• Welcome and Review
  • Student leader reviews the answers to the most recent set of Session Questions 
    • Name one of the countries besides Mexico where migrants coming to the United States are from? 
    • Why did Jesus as James and John if they could drink the cup that he must drink?
    • What was last sessions Catholic Faith Word? 
    • What is the definition of the Catholic Faith Word?
    • What is the common good?
    • Catholic social teaching teaches that humans have the duty to protect what? 

So What's Our Plan for Tonight!?! Measurable Goals and Objectives

• Share Experiences Carsten King
  • Explore the meaning of the verb see.
  • Identify the ways in which Vatican II continues to renew the Church. 

• Sunday Gospels with Correlation Activity Seminarian, Austin Young
  • Recognize the role of "seeing with the heart" in a life of faith.

• Discover the Gospel and Doctrine (Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition) Emerson "Emmy" Schaefer
  • Recognize how Nicene Creed states what we believe. 

• Live the Gospel Marshall Snyder
  • Explore key teachings from Vatican II.
  • Identify injustices students have seen or experienced. 
  • Introduce Student Session Wrap-up Questions

• Cover Activity 
  • What Do You See? Page 1
    • Students are invited to begin Cover Activity independently, remaining in pew for next activity 
    • Student Catechist identifies one student from each TRG to share with the entire group their findings from the cover activity before the Opening Prayer
      • Top two cover photos
      • Identify whose serves them
• Gathering Prayer
  • Gathering Prayer
    • Ask students to spend a few minutes thinking of people or things for which the thankful.
      • There may even be people or things they can see now - people or things that surround them.
      • Ask TRG members to share their thoughts with another TRG member near them 
      • Student Catechist identifies one student from each TRG to share with the entire group before the Opening Prayer
    • After each person shares their answer to the above question, the group is invited to respond, "Thank you, all seeing God."
      

• This Week's Article - What Happened at Vatican II? Pages 2-3 
  • Student Catechist introduces this week's article
    • Beginning by introducing the Talk Questions first on page 3, with instructions about article's activity, pages 2 and 3
    • Students are invited to look at the photo under the title shows all bishops assembled in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. 
    • Students are invited to look at the photos of the popes
      • Saint John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council
      • Saint Pope Paul VI closed the Second Council four years later.
    • Invite TRG members to reading the article aloud, taking turns at the sentence in bold type
  • Student Catechist introducing the Articles Activities, again, reintroduces Talk Questions, page 3
  • Student Catechist invites students to work independently to complete Talk Questions and prepare to share with peers within their TRG, page 3

6:50 p.m.

Sunday's Gospel with Correlation Activity*

Seminarian Austin Young

• Key Correlation Idea
  • Confirmation: Trusting God's Mercy 

• The blind man persistently calls out to Jesus.
• Jesus asked the blind man, what He could do for him? The blind man asks Jesus if He had heal his blindness. 
• Do we ask Jesus what we need at Mass? Do we realize how powerful the Eucharist is in healing us physically, mentally, and spiritually. Jesus, heal our hearts.

• Sunday's Gospel
  • Catechist introduces Sunday's Gospel, and students complete Sunday Gospel Talk Questions, page 4.
• Question of the Week
  • Catechist introduces this week's Correlation Question of the Week
    • What makes it hard for you to trust God's love and mercy?

• Correlation Activity configures the approved and necessary curriculum for students preparing to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis
• Beginning in Grade 7, students participate in the curriculum that prepares them to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.

6:57 p.m.
Gospel and Doctrine (Catechism of the Catholic Church)

Emerson "Emmy" Schaefer

• Church Assemblies
• Student Leader introduces the Talk Questions for the Connecting Gospel and Doctrine, page 4
• Student Leader also introduces the Information in What the Church Believes and Teaches, page  
  • At Mass on Sunday everyone stands to recite the Nicene Creed. This Creed is a summary of what Christians believe, particularly about the divinity and humanity of Jesus.
  • The Creed's name comes from the city of Nicaea (nye-SEE-uh), which was located in present-day Turkey. 
  • A Church council was held there in the year 325 to counteract a heresy that declared Jesus was a superior, good in every way, but not equal to God the Father.
  • At the Council of Nicaea, the leaders of the Church declared that Jesus indeed is both God and man. He is equal to the Father and the Spirit.
  • The statement of beliefs that the Council of Nicaea adopted so many years ago is still proclaimed in our churches today. An it provides the outline for the statement of Catholic beliefs in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 
    
  • See the inside cover of the missalette to refresh your memory and to use a reference as we continue. 
• What are the four divisions of the Nicene Creed?
• identifying the key concepts from the lesson located in the Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition of the Catholic Church
• Student Leader reintroduces the Talk Questions for the Connecting Gospel and Doctrine, page 4
• TRG's are invited to gather in assigned meeting places throughout the church and continue with assigned activity and Talk Questions

• Review and discuss the Church Assemblies section introducing this week's Catholic Faith Word and complete the Our Catholic Faith questions
• Together, the TRG's complete the activity on page 4 and discuss talk questions
• Catechist will reintroduce the talk questions and students share findings with the entire class
• Catechists introduce what the catholic church believes and teaches (Our Catholic Faith)

• Catholic Faith Word
  • Student Catechist reads aloud the definition of the Catholic Faith Word giving examples of its concept and introduces the Our Catholic Faith Feature, Page 5
    

7:10 p.m. 
Living the Gospel 
Marshall Snyder

• Living the Gospel
  • -What We Learn About the Catholic Church from Vatican II, pages 7-8
    • Catechists introduces What Families Need feature, reading aloud the overview as well as the directions located on page 6
    • Student Catechist introduces key concepts.
      • Liturgy, pages 2 and 3
      • Church, pages 4 and 5
      • Church and World, pages 6 and 7
      • Ecumenism, pages 8
    • Students complete the activity and should be prepared to share with the whole group gathered
    • TRG's are invited to gather again in their assigned pews to share with the whole group gathered
  • What is the greatest injustice you have seen?

• Announcements
  • October 26: Listening Session with Archbishop Thompson 
  • October 27: Mass with the Rite of Confirmation
  • October 28: Saints Simon and Jude
  • November: Black Catholic History Month USA
  • November 1: Solemnity of All Saints: (Holy Day of Obligation)
    • See weekly bulletin for Mass Times
  • November 2: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day)
  • Time to begin and submit Session Wrap-up Questions

•  Closing Prayer
  • Clean up area; put missalettes and kneelers in place. 
  • Line up at the north wall for dismissal at 7:20 p.m.