Three-Year Topics for Family Formation

(Topics may be subject to change without notice.)

Cycle A/B

SEPTEMBER
Home Lesson -  Angels

OCTOBER
Classroom Lesson - Where Heaven and Earth Meet (Overview of the Mass)
Week 1 -  The Liturgy of the Word
Week 2 -  The Liturgy of the Eucharist
Week 3 - Vessels and Vestments: Things That Are Used at Mass

NOVEMBER
Classroom Lesson - Be the Hands and Feet of Jesus! (Corporal Works of Mercy)
Week 1 - Celebrating the Real Presence
Week 2 - The Spiritual Works of Mercy
Week 3 - The Corporal Works of Mercy
Week 4 - Advent Activities Booklet

DECEMBER
Classroom Lesson - Mary: God's Masterpiece
Week 1 - Isaiah the Prophet
Week 2 - Christmas Activity Packet
Week 3 - Christmas Break -- Celebrate the Nativity!
Week 4 - The Holy Family and Epiphany

JANUARY
Classroom Lesson - The Call: Are You Listening? (Vocations and Holy Orders)
Week 1 - Authority and Obedience
Week 2 - The Call of Samuel
Week 3 - God's Call to Us

FEBRUARY
Classroom Lesson - Sacrament of the Sick                                                                                (Everything You Always Wanted to Know and Never Got to Ask)
Week 1 - Intercessory Prayer
Week 2 - Saints' Stories
Week 3 - God's Covenant with Noah                                                                                                       Week 4 - God's Covenant with Abraham
Additional - Ash Wednesday and Lenten Activities

MARCH
Classroom Lesson - Written on Stone, Chiseled in Your Heart (The Ten Commandments)
Week 1 - God's Covenant with Moses
Week 2 - No Lesson - Review Lenten Activities Packet

APRIL
Classroom Lesson - Kneeling Before the Majesty of God (Eucharistic Adoration)
Week 1 - Holy Week                                                                                                                                    Week 2 - Easter Activity Packet
Week 3 - Adoration and Holiness
Week 4 - Sacramentals and Indulgences

MAY
Classroom Lesson - Let Your Spirit Rejoice in God Your Savior! (Pray Like Mary Did)
Week 1 - Marian Apparitions
Week 2 - The Holy Rosary

 

Cycle B/C

SEPTEMBER
Home Lesson - Precepts of the Church

OCTOBER
Classroom Lesson - You've Got Mail! (The Bible: God's Love Letter to You)
Week 1 - The Bible: Our Book of Faith
Week 2 - 2 Timothy 3:16
Week 3 - The Four Evangelists

NOVEMBER
Classroom Lesson - See You at the Finish Line (The Final Coming)
Week 1 - Death, Judgment, Resurrection
Week 2 - Heaven, Hell, Purgatory
Week 3 - Hope

DECEMBER
Classroom Lesson - Cross My Heart! (The Lord Keeps His Promises)
Week 1 - Jeremiah the Prophet
Week 2 - Christmas Activities
Week 3 - Christmas Break ... Celebrate the Incarnation!
Week 4 - Mary, Mother of God

JANUARY
Classroom Lesson - A Match Made in Heaven (The Sacrament of Matrimony)
Week 1 - Sanctity of Life
Week 2 - What Makes a Family?
Week 3 - Love

FEBRUARY
Classroom Lesson - On This Rock, I Will Build My Church
(The Infallibility of the Pope/The Chair of Peter)
Week 1 - Church R Us
Week 2 - Bishops and Cardinals
Week 2 - Lenten Activities

MARCH
Classroom Lesson - The Clean Sweep (The Sacrament of Reconciliation)
Week 1 - Satan and Temptation
Week 2 - God's Mercy
Week 3 - Prodigal Son

APRIL
Classroom Lesson - O Most Holy Week
Week 1 - Holy Week Activities
Week 2 - Resurrection Appearances of Jesus
Week 3 - Eucharistic Miracles
Week 4 - The Apostles, Our Firm Foundation

MAY
Classroom Lesson - The Trinity: Now That's a Mystery!
Week 1 - God, The Father
Week 2 - Jesus Christ, The Son
Week 3 - The Holy Spirit

SUMMER
Super Summer Sacrament Scavenger Hunt


Cycle C/A

SEPTEMBER
Home Lesson - Angels

OCTOBER
Classroom Lesson - What Goes Around Comes Around
(Overview of Doctrine and the Liturgical Cycle)
Week 1 - Liturgical Seasons
Week 2 - Stewardship
Week 3 - The Feast of All Souls

NOVEMBER
Classroom Lesson - Living and Dying to Become a Saint
Week 1 - Living With the Saints
Week 2 - Christ the King
Week 3 - Advent Packet

DECEMBER
Classroom Lesson - Prepare the Way of the Lord! (Nativity and Incarnation)
Week 1 - John the Baptist
Week 2 - Christmas Activity Booklet
Week 3 - Christmas break ... Celebrate Christ's Birth!
Week 4 - Becoming a Holy Family

JANUARY
Classroom Lesson - As For Me and My House, We Will Serve the Lord
(The Heart of the Home: Jesus in the Eucharist)
Week 1 - Baptism
Week 2 - A Child's Vocation
Week 3 - The Beatitudes

FEBRUARY
Classroom Lesson - Go Tell It On the Mountain! (Evangelization: Our Baptismal Call)
Week 1 - Ash Wednesday
Week 2 - Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving
Week 3 - Catholic Social Teaching

MARCH
Classroom Lesson - Jesus' Compassion in His Passion (Stations of the Cross)
Week 1 - Reconciliation
Week 2 - Triduum and Easter
Week 3 - Easter Break -- Celebrate the Resurrection!
Week 4 - Divine Mercy Sunday

APRIL
Classroom Lesson - Our Father, Who Art in Heaven (God, the Father)
Week 1 - Adoring Jesus in the Eucharist
Week 2 - Mary and the Eucharist
Week 3 - The Ascension of Jesus into Heaven

MAY
Classroom Lesson - Tongues of Fire, Wings of a Dove (Holy Spirit)
Week 1 - Mary in the Upper Room
Week 2 - Evangelization
Week 3 - Confirmation

SUMMER
The Virtues


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