Family Formation topic is vocations this month

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Classroom sessions this Sunday, but any insights would be helpful. I have 4th grade. Lesson plan as follows:
  1. Snack, attendance & good conduct tickets, music
  2. Prayer table - opening prayer & review of liturgical year (what season & what color vestments will the priest wear)
  3. Occupation vs Vocation - 2 vocations are also sacraments
  4. Four vocations - Single Life, Marriage, Religious Life & Holy Orders
  5. Deacon, Priest, Bishop
  6. How do we know our vocation
  7. Interactive notebook craft/activity
  8. Review game
  9. Closing - Pray for Seminarians
 
In the lesson packet, Religious Life included several sub-categories: Nuns, Sisters, Brothers, Monks, Friars, hermits & some priests. Basically, anyone who belongs to a religious order & makes vows. Does Consecrated Life fit into this category, or is it separate?
 
Class is from 8:30 - 9:45 - (8:30 - 8:45 is snack)
15 minute recess until 10:00 Mass 😀

We only meet once a month, get the topic started, then the parents have take-home packets with home lessons for the other 3 weeks.
 
One thing I struggled with was finding pictures of people living the single life. I don’t know many singles - most of them are young & haven’t made major life choices, or are in relationships or divorced or widowed. I do know some “single again” people who are living chaste lives - not know if they are consecrated to chastity.
 
Thanks. That was very helpful. Can married persons be consecrated?
 
You may wish to stress that real men and women from families such as theirs are called to various vocations.
Sisters and priests aren’t “born that way.” Nor do they “fall from the sky.”
My mom wrote a little reflection around Mothers’ Day: Mother’s Day | Our Franciscan Fiat
 
That was a beautiful reflection. I think the classroom lesson went well but I need to simplify more - keep it on a 4th grade level. We are fortunate to have 2 young men from our parish studying for the priesthood. The last activity (which was cut short by the ending bell) was a prayer for seminarians
 
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