Week of January 20, 2019: Water to Wine (Ages 11-18)
- Faith To Go
- Jan 21, 2019
- 4 min read
Faith To Go Podcast: The Least Expected
Hosted each week by the Faith Formation team at St. Paul's Cathedral in San Diego, David Tremaine, Maya Little-Sana and Jackie Pippin, the Faith To Go Podcast highlight themes from the Sunday Gospel reading for you to take into your conversations throughout the week.
Reads: Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Questions:
What do you know about Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Do you have a favorite quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Why is it important to remember King’s life?
How does his legacy still impact our world today?
How are we still called to continue his work?
Views and Qs: Wedding at Cana
Watch this video together and then use the discussion questions below to reflect as a family.
Discussion Questions:
What do you know about the wedding at Cana?
What happened at the wedding?
Why did Jesus think his time hadn’t come yet?
How was Jesus’ miracle unexpected?
In what ways do you show hospitality?
Feast and Faith: Hospitality
Prayer- Christ is born!
Praises to our Creator God, who became flesh for us most fully in Jesus, the Incarnate Word
To become one of us, human, yet divine.
Christ is born!
My heart sings that the time of waiting is over.
The light has overcome the darkness as
The true gift from God has arrived.
Christ is born!
Praises to our Creator God, who is as close as the love that binds us, one to another,
Filling us with awe and wonder at such miracles.
Christ is born!
Help us to live the joy of Jesus’ birth this and every day,
Knowing that the Spirit of Christ dwells in us
Guiding us to be his witnesses in all that we say and do
Throughout the year.
Christ is born!
Questions
How does our society value hospitality?
Have you ever been to a party where something went wrong?
Describe what happened.
How do you handle situations when something doesn’t go as planned?
What ways do you try to be hospitable to others?
Final nugget – In this story we have guests that are coming together, from all over, to support the bride and groom in their new journey together. But these people become more than simply guests, they are joining with the bride and groom in their marriage in wake of the surprising abundance that Jesus brings us.
Stay and Pray: A Devotion for Families at the Close of the Day
Each week we feature a way for your family to reflect and pray together. For families with older children this is an at home liturgy for your family to participate in together. It is a daily devotion for families adapted from The Book of Common Prayer.
Before you begin, take a few moments to decide who will read the scripture reading and who will read the collect and closing. Read the Psalm and Lord's Prayer in unison.
After a moment of silence, begin with the Psalm.
Psalm 36:5-10
(Read in unison)
5 Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, *
and your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the strong mountains,
your justice like the great deep; *
you save both man and beast, O Lord.
7 How priceless is your love, O God! *
your people take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
8 They feast upon the abundance of your house; *
you give them drink from the river of your delights.
9 For with you is the well of life, *
and in your light we see light.
10 Continue your loving-kindness to those who know you, *
and your favor to those who are true of heart.
John 2:1-11
(read by assigned person)
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward." So they took it. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now."
Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
Prayers for Ourselves and For Others (take this time to each offer one person/event that you would like to hold in prayer as well as one thing you are thankful for)
Dear God, tonight I ask your prayers for.......
and I give you thanks for ..........
Amen
The Lord’s Prayer
(read in unison)
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen
The Collect
(read by assigned person)
Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
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