Greetings and Opening prayer
Phrases:
Closing Prayer
OBJECTIVE:
Get the young group to recognize their role within their family, through the dynamics proposed.
First -
suggested group dynamics: we suggest the following activity, using phrases taken from FERGS handout
(see below).
1º) Cut each question into uniformed strips; soon after, cut each strip into two or three parts;
2º) Distribute a fragment of these strips randomly to each adolescent. He/she will need to form the sentence, by matching it with the rest of strip. Each pair or group of adolescents formed should discuss together whether the statement is "true" or "false."
3º) After all questions have been answered by everybody; the spiritist teacher should hand out copies of the 1st and the 2nd paragraph of Item 8 - CHAPTER 14 – taken from ‘The Gospel According to Spiritism’ by Allan Kardec. Based on the reading of this material, evaluate their answers and help them to better understand the topic Family group.
Here is the text to be handed out:
CORPOREAL RELATIONSHIP AND SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIP
8. Blood ties do not necessarily create bonds between Spirits. The body comes from the body. But the Spirit does not proceed from the Spirit, since the Spirit already existed before the formation of the body. The parents do not create the Spirit of the child; they do nothing more than supply the material wrapping, although it is their duty to help the intellectual and moral development of their child, in order to further its progress.
Those incarnated in the same family, especially as close relations, are as often as not congenial Spirits linked by past relationships, which express themselves during their earthly lives by their reciprocated affections. But it can also happen that these people are complete strangers to each other, or they may be distant from each other due to past aversions which while on Earth are translated into mutual antagonisms which serve as probations. The real family ties are not those of blood then, but those of mutual sympathy and the communion of ideas which hold spirits together, before, during and after their incarnations. From this it follows that two people born of different parents may be more like brothers or sisters than if they were of the same blood. They can attract each other, search for each other and so feel happy together; whereas two blood brothers may be repelled by each other, as is frequently seen. This moral problem is one that only Spiritism can resolve through the explanation of the plurality of existences. (See chapter 4, item 13.) – Source: The Gospel According to Spiritism by Allan Kardec.
4º) Get them to discuss the purpose of young people to be part of a family group. Discussing the importance of each paragraph taken from the Gospel and its applicability in our family.
Second:
conclusion: the work will be completed when the young people understand that not only the blood ties bind the spirits, but also the spiritual ties. It’s up to the youth to contribute to a harmonious relationship in the family group in which he/she is included.
1 - All families are the same.
2 - Families are formed by chance.
3 - Families are only formed with spirits who have a link of sympathy with each other.
4 - We can all choose our families before reincarnating.
5 - Families are planned in the spirit world.
6 – Its blood ties that unite the spirits.
7 - Real love ties don’t begin with birth and are not destroyed by death.
8 – Our home is the first place we must exercise fraternity.
9 - All families are formed by spiritual ties.
10 - There are families linked only by corporeal ties.
Spiritist Teachers: Ricardo and Maria Cláudia
Bibliography:
The Gospel According to Spiritism by Allan Kardec - Chapter XIV (CORPOREAL RELATIONSHIP AND SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIP), 1st paragraph from item 3; 1st and 2nd paragraph from item 8;
Book ‘Adolescence and Life’ - Divaldo Pereira Franco, Chapter IV.
Translation: Carolina von Scharten, London, linked to BUSS - The British Union of Spiritist Societies.
