October 20, 2010 High School class of St. Leo

Hello students and parents,

I hope everyone has received and answered their e-mail about the upcoming Halloween party on October 31 at our farm and about the diocesan youth retreat in Bowling Green.  The retreat will be in November and I hope we get a lot of students interested in coming to this wonderful event.

Well last Wednesday we seemed to have a lot of students missing.  I hope that the students are enjoying their lessons each week.  We are getting an overview of the Bible geared at their level that will be a basis for them to build on for the rest of their life.

We started our class with mass and an opening lesson from Father Jason about the days Bible reading.

Class began with our opening prayers to the Holy Spirit followed by the Padre Nuestro.

This weeks Teen Timeline was from the Books of Exodus, Numbers, Joshua and Judges.  This week we heard about God forming a covenant with One Holy Nation the Israelites that have been enslaved by the Egyptians for 400 years. God send Moses to be their deliverer.  We hear about the "burning bush", the ten plagues and the passover.  After all these events, the Pharaoh then sets the Israelites free..  God then makes his New Covenant with the Holy Nation of Israelites and gives them the Ten Commandments as a sign of his Covenant.  Because of their sin and unbelief the Commandments are broken,  God then gives them again to Moses and has them make and Ark for the Covenant Commandments.  But again because the Israelites did not trust God in battle, they we made to wonder the dessert for 40 years.  But God provides for his people during their wanderings and sends them manna from heaven to make their bread daily.  We learn that Moses was the Portrait of Determination but because he did not always fully trust God, by striking the rock twice,was not allowed to enter the Promised Land.  Because of this Joshua will lead the Israelites into Canaan.  We then hear about the conquest of Jericho and Rehab, a prostitute, who will become the Portrait of Conversion, helping the Israelites and believing in God.  Again the people fail God, when he helps them win in battle and tells them to take nothing from the conquest, their greed takes over and they do not listen to God.  The Bible continues through the book of Judges and we end the evening  with the Israelites asking God to give them a King.  Wow what a lot to learn and read.

Before I conclude I want to remind everyone there is no class next Wednesday.  We will be participating in the Adoration of the Eucharist on October 28, 2010.

See everyone next Thursday,

I will keep you in my prayer,

Dr. Joyce