Greetings and Opening Prayer
First: Distribute the ‘Enigmatic Letter’ activity to the children and give them take a few minutes to fulfil the task of uncovering the sentences.
Click here to see the ‘Enigmatic Letter’.
Click here to see the response of the activity.
Second: talk to the children about the phrases found.
Jesus is our brother and master; the most perfect type that God has offered to man as his guide and model. God created Jesus, as a Spirit, as He created us, Spirits. Jesus was created before us; he is more evolved.
See questions 114, 115, 121 and 625 from The Spirits’ Book by Allan Kardec.
Master is someone who has the wisdom, who has more knowledge, who experiences what teaches: Jesus taught and experienced love, friendship, forgiveness, charity, humility and peace.
Jesus shows us the path to happiness: experiencing love is the way to happiness. Doing good things makes us feel happy, gives us peace and joy. Evil only brings us sadness, loneliness and unhappiness because we reap what we sow. Those who plan evil, will reap evil; whoever plants goodness will reap joy and happiness: goodness.
If we have Jesus in our hearts we are never alone. How will we cultivate Jesus in your hearts? By getting to know and putting into practice his teachings. How do we get to know his teachings? We can find through the Gospel at home practice, in the spiritist education classes, by reading good books, watching good movies, talking with our parents, etc. How can we live Jesus’ teachings? By helping our family, respecting people, studying, obeying our parents and teachers, being friendly, honest, taking care of the nature, helping others, etc.
Third: what does the word PARABLE mean? Parables are the stories that Jesus told. Jesus' parables are seemingly simple and memorable stories, often with imagery, and each conveys a message. Many of Jesus' parables refer to simple everyday things and characters of that time, such as: fishermen, wheat, sea, grapes, pastors, bread, vine, etc. Jesus told stories because they facilitated the understanding of his teachings, as well as was easy to be remembered.
Fourth: Tell them the following parables: ‘The Arrogant Guest’ and ‘the Unforgiving Creditor’.
Click here to see the Parables.
Note: We have made drawings on the board to illustrate the parable ‘The Arrogant Guest’, as we were telling it.
Fifth: distribute sandpaper and crayons; ask them to draw the parable they liked best. We later hanged up a clothesline in the classroom and placed the drawings on it for decoration.
Closing prayer
Suggested Class suitable for: second cycle (9 to 10 years old).
Translation: Carolina von Scharten, London, linked to BUSS - The British Union of Spiritist Societies.
