This lesson was received from Tania Stidwill - Allan Kardec Spiritist Center, Winterthur/Switzerland. Other suggestions for activities can be found on the site www.ceeak.ch
Greetings and Opening Prayer
First: Activity called ‘the Auction Game’ (adapted from the book Grammar Games by Mario Rinvolucri, Cambridge University Press).
Click here to see the rules and how to play the game.
Click here to see the list of goods to be auctioned (which may have fewer items, depending on how much time is available for this class).
Click here to see a sample sign to be used during the auction, with bids from each group.
Second: explain the meaning of the word parable.
Third: narrate the Parable of the Talents, told by Jesus.
Click here to see the Parable.
Fourth - ask:
What are talents? Talents are the skills we develop and the opportunities we receive, which will depend on our good efforts. We all received many talents: our physical body, intelligence, our current reincarnation, the opportunities to serve, etc. We must use our talents for good. To bury the talents is to be unwilling, to be reluctant, to be lazy and to not want to study and learn, to not practice goodness, etc. God has given us many talents and we should use them for our moral, spiritual and intellectual advancement as well as for humanity.
Fifth: talk about appreciating and making good use of our talents; remember them we all have talents.
Closing Prayer: thank for the talents we have, proposing to make good use of them.
Translation: Carolina von Scharten, London, linked to BUSS - The British Union of Spiritist Societies.
