Group 1

1. Rocio 3
2. Marta 11
3. Ana 9
4. Claudia 17
Theme 1 (The Kingdom of God, Parables, The Lost Sheep, The Good Samaritan and Miracles).
1)The Kingdom of God:
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS
One day Jesus joined a crowd of people beside the River Jordan that were listening to John the Baptist. He was telling them to get ready and prepare for the coming of the Messiah.
The two men already knew each other, they were cousins. Jesus went over to spoke to John and asked to be baptised like everyone else. Jesus understood that baptism was a sign of something important so John baptisted Jesus in the River Jordan. When he came out of the water again, something special happened; he felt the peace of God spread all over him like adove. Then God's words came to him: "You are my own dear Son. I' m pleased with you". Jesus was inspired. He could see straight away what God was calling him to do. He realised that he had a special mission to perform. His task was to tell people about God, and God's great love for the world. Jesus began to follow his dream from the day he was baptised.
KINGDOM OF GOD
Jesus had a dream. He had a vision of a perfect world:
- Everyone would love God.
- Everyone would love their neighbour as themselves.
Jesus called his dream the Kingdom of God.
The kingdom of God is not a place. Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is found in people; he also said that the Kingdom of God arrived in him. He told parables to teach people about the love of God.
2) Parables:
A parable is a special kind of story. It is a simple story with a hidden meaning.
Jesus told parables to teach people about the Kingdom of God. Parables were easy to understand and easy to remember.
THE PARABLE OF THE MUSTARD SEED
Jesus once told a parable about sowing a mustard seed to explain how the Kingdom of God was.
A man takes the smallest mustard seed in the world, and plants it in the ground. After a while it grows up, being the biggest of all plants.
THE HIDDEN MEANING OF THE PARABLE
The Kingdom of God is compared to the growth of a plant.
The seed of love is sown in people's hearts; it slowly grows in each person. Jesus promised that from something very small, slowly something can grow.
The fully grown plant stands for the Kingdom of God fully present in the world. The parable of the mustard seed shows that the Kingdom of God will grow and steadily like a seed that grows into a plant.
3) The Lost Sheep:
Jesus told parables to show how God treats those who lose their way in life.
KINGDOM OF GOD
One day Jesus told the story to men called tax collectors and Pharisees. These were men who thought they were more important than everyone else and they weren't very nice. They were whispering about Jesus and how he shouldn't eat and talk with sinners.

Jesus had different ideas: he wanted people to know that God is a God of love and he wanted them to understand that God loves everyone with no exceptions. But he also said that when a sinner repents and says sorry there will be much joy on his return.
Then Jesus told two parables:
- The Parable of the Lost Sheep
- The Parable of the Lost Coin
THE LOST SHEEP
Jesus said: "Imagine a man has 100 sheep. One of them wanders off and gets lost." Jesus asks: "What does the man do?"
He leaves the other 99 in a safe place, then he goes off into the hills; he searches everywhere for the lost sheep. When he finds it, he is delighted. He lifts it up on his shoulders and carries it back home. He can not wait to tell his friends and neighbours: "Look, I have found my lost sheep, let's celebrate!"
THE LOST COIN
Jesus said: "Imagine a woman had 10 silver coins. One of them falls on he floor and gets lost". Jesus asks: "What does the woman do?" She lights the only candle she has, she weeps the house carefully form the top to the bottom and she searches everywhere for the lost coin. When she finds it, she is delighted. Straight away she calls her friends and neighbours. "Look, I have found my lost coin, let's celebrate!"
In Jesus' time, a bride on her wedding day often wore elaborate head-dress of coins and jewels. To lose one of these coins might be like a woman today losing her engagement ring or her wedding ring.
4) The Good Samaritan:
Jesus told a parable abut a kind-hearted man who helped a person in need.
KINGDOM OF GOD
One day Jesus was teaching in a small town and he said to the crowd: "In the Kingdom of God you must love God and love your neighbour as yourself". Afterwards, someone came up to Jesus and asked, "Who is my neighbour?" Jesus answered by telling the parable of the Good Samaritan. The parable shows that one's neighbour is everyone, the people we like, and people we don't like.

THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN
One day a Jewish man travels along the road from Jerusalem to Jericho. A local gang see him coming. They attack him, beat him up and take all his money. Finally they leave him lying unconscious on the side of the road. The poor man is unable to move.
Some local people come by in a great hurry. They are on the way to he Temple in Jerusalem. They pass the injured man, but the ignore him; they did not want to get involved.
Then a Samaritan man comes by. The Jews and the Samaritan do not get along, they treat them as outsiders. Nevertheless, the Samaritan stops and goes over to see what is wrong. The injured man turns and groans and straight away the Samaritan give him first aid. Then he carefully lifts him onto his donkey and brings him into the nearest inn. He stays up all night carying for him. Before he leaves the next day, the Samaritan gives the innkeeper some money. "Make sure this poor man gets everything he needs" he says. "If it costs any more just let me know. I will be back to see how he is later on".

5) Miracles
MIRACLES
In the gospels, the evangelists record 35 miracles that Jesus performed. The evangelists saw the miracles as a sign that Jesus is the Messiah.
Christians believe a miracle is a wonderful event caused by the power of God. Jesus had a lot of power of Godso he used his power to help people in need.

Jesus worked 3 types of miracles:
- Healing miracles: He healed people who were sick.
- Nature miracles: He changed something in nature, like calming a storm, or turning water into wine.
- Expelling miracles: He got rid of evil spirits from people's life.
The miracles were signs and they helped people of faith to believe that Jesus was the Messiah promised by God.
KINGDOM OF GOD
Healing Miracles:
In the gospels, the evangelists point out that Jesus did everything of which the prophet spoke. Jesus performed miracles all over Palestine.

He made:
- Blind people to see
- Deaf people to hear
- Lame people walk.
Jesus helped with all kind of problems.
In the Gospel of Mark, it says that Jesus felt sorry for those who were sick, or sad, or disable or poor. He wanted everyone to know that God loves them, so when he worked a miracle, Jesus was showing people how great is God's love. The miracles helped people to see what God is like. In the Kingdom of God, God is the God of love who cares for everyone. In Jesus, the Kingdom of God had come on Earth.

Bibliography:
- Religion book: AUTHOR:Connie Duffy. TITLE:"Religion for Living".PUBLISHED BY: Alpha Press Ltd. Castledown, 2005.
Marta nº 11

Theme 4
(the death and resurrection of Jesus)
Arrest and trail of Jesus:
Jesus was arrested and put into trial before the Jewish Court (the Sanhedrin) and afterwards before Pilate the Roman Governor.
JESUS IS ARRESTED
On Thursday evening after dark Jesus, Peter and some of the disciples met at the Mount of Olives. They were afraid, but that mount, was safe and well hidden. Jesus knew that the moment was near, so he left them and went off by himself. In the middle of the night, he fell on his knees, and he prayed; he was ready if God wanted him.
Suddenly, Judas arrived. He went over to Jesus and greeted Him with a kiss, that was the signal. Men with swords and sticks came to arrest Jesus. The disciples tried to fight, but Jesus stopped them. The disciples were frightened to be arrested, so they ran away. Jesus was going to face his trial alone.
ON TRIAL BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN
That night, Jesus was brought before the Sanhedrin, the Jewish court of law.
Every member was present in the court, but Jesus stood in front of the high priest. Some witnesses were called, and Jesus was questioned. Finally, the High Priest asked if he was the Messiah, the Son of God, and Jesus said that he was.
That meaned, Jesus had broken the Jewish law, because he was equal to God.
The veredict was that Jesus was guilty of blasphemy, and that he should be put into death; but the only who had the power to execute anyone, was the Roman Governor, Pilate, so they took Jesus to him.
ON TRIAL BEFORE PILATE
Early on Friday morning, Pilate tried to find out if Jesus was a trouble maker. He asked Jesus, if he was the King of the Jews, and Jesus answered that yes.
Pilate thought Jesus was harmless, and the peolpe that were outside waiting wanted him to be crucified. Pilate made a quick decision. Jesus could be a threat to Roman law, because he claimed that he was a king, so he was found guilty of treason and was sentenced to death. After that, Roman soldiers came and took him away to be crucified.
Death of Jesus:
Jesus gave up his life for the good of others.
MARTYRDOM
On the Friday morning, Roman soldiers led Jesus out to be crucified. He was forced to carry his cross through the streets of Jerusalem out to Golgotha, the place of execution.
He suffered for almost six hours before he died.

For Christians, the martyrdom of Jesus is about love, a love for humanity that cost Jesus his life.
Inside every Roman Catholic church today you will see a set of pictures displayed around the walls. These images are called the Stations of the Cross, or the Way of the Cross. Here you can see what the pictures show:
1. Jesus is condemned to death.
2. Jesus carries the cross.
3. Jesus falls.
4. Jesus sees his mother.
5. Simon helps Jesus.
6. Veronica helps Jesus.
7. Jesus falls again.
8. Jesus speaks to the women.
9. Jesus falls the third time.
10. Jesus is stripped of his clothes.
11. Jesus is crucified.
12. Jesus dies on the cross.
13. Jesus is taken down from the cross.
14. Jesus’ body is put in the tomb.

The Resurrection and the Resurrection Appearances:
Jesus was completely transformed after the resurrection. He was different, yet somehow, he was still the same.
RESURRECTION
The ointment was a Jewish custom to anoint the body, a way of showing respect for the dead, so when the Sabbath was over, the women started making it for the body of Jesus in the tomb.
Early on Sunday morning they set off. The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Salome and Mary, the mother of James. When they arrived at the tomb, they saw that the large stone sailing the tomb, was rolled back, so they looked inside, and the tomb was empty! A messenger from God spoke to them. ``Jesus is not here, he is risen from the dead. Do not be afraid.´´ They left quickly and rushed to tell the disciples.
The disciples were still in hiding. They felt every thing had gone wrong because Jesus was dead. His work was over and now their own lifes were in danger. When the women told them what happened, they didn’ t believed the them, but Peter was unsure and he slipped out and ran to the tomb.
TRANSFORMATION

Some time later, Mary Magdalene went back alone to the tomb and she began to cry. Jesus appeared beside her. At first, she didn’ t recognise him, he was transformed. Then, Jesus said her name and Mary’ s eyes lit up at once. She knew who was straight away. `` Teacher´´, she said, and reached out to him.
Mary Magdalene was the first person Jesus spoke to after he had risen from the dead. It changed her life.
Jesus gave her a new work to do, to tell the Good News of his resurrection to everyone she met.
Bibliography:
- Duffy, Connie. "Religion for Living". Castletown, 2005. Alpha Press Ltd.

Rocío / number: 3

JESUS AND OUTSIDERS
CONFLICY WITH AUTORITY
One day Jesus was passing through the town of Jericcho. Zacchaaeus wanted to talk with him but all the crowd were around Jesus. Zacchaeus was a tax collector and he was wearing his best clothes. The Pharisees were very important people in Jericcho and they stood beside Jesus so he couldn't see nothing. All the people in the town thought that he was a sinner nobody liked him including the Pharisees.
He really wanted to see Jesus, so he climbed a tree beside the road. When Jesus arrive to the place were Zacchaeus was he stopped and he invited himself to have lunch in Zacchaeus house. Zacchaeus was very surprised, as well the crowd, all started to talk bad about him.
Jesus and Zacchaeus arrived to t he house of the second one, they sat downand started talking, finally the tax collector promise that he woul cahange his metods. And jesus promised that the kindom of God is for everyone. Outsiders, people who are despised and rejest by others, have an especial place in the Kindom of God.
JESUS FORGIVES SINS
CONFLICT WITH AUTORITY
Jesus went back to Capernaum. When the people saw him they all went to see him. A large crowd were in and outside the house. Jesus started to teach about the Kindom of God. There were men carrying a man who was paralised and he couldn't walk. They couldn't enter through the door because there were to many people there, so they went to the side of the house cllimb to the roof and made a hole in it. when it was big enough to the parised man to enter theu put him very careful inside. All the people were very surprised. Jesus knew thet the men had a very strong faith in him so he said: My son, your sins are forgiven. The Pharisees who were there were surprised because only God can do that. Also, Jesus healed the man in front of everyone. At the end of the day all had learn that Jesus had the power to heal people and to forgive sins. And also this things were in the Kindom of God.
JESUS AND SABBATH LAWS
For the jews the Sabbath day is a day for rest and praying.
CONFLICT WITH AUTHORITY
WORKING ON THE SABBATH:
One Sabbath day jesus was with the disciples in a fiel of corn. The disciples were hungry so they eat a bit of corn. They got into troubble.
Some Pharisees noticed what happened. And they told J esus that it was against the law. Jesus explained to the Pharisees that the diciples were huhngry and that persons are more important than laws. The Pharisees believed exactly the opposite. They asked what gives Jesus permission to change the law and he replid that he was in the right to do it. the Pharisees were no longerthe experts in the Kindom of God, Jesus was.
HEALING ON THE SABBATH:
Jesus went to the synagoge on the Sabbath. A man with a paralised hand came inside the Pharisees were also in the synagoge. They wanted to see what Jesus was going to do and make a mistake. Would he heal that man?
Jesus told the mand to come up to the place were he was and asked to strach his hands. Jesus healed him infront of everyone . He believed that he could help peoplo even on Sabbaths. He told again to the Pharisees that the people came first than the law.
The Pharisees were horrified. Jesus broke the law. After they had a metting and they decided to get rid of Jesus.
THE LASR SUPPER
PASSOVER
Passover is the most important festival in the jewish year. It celebrates the time long ago when God helpes Mose sto lead the Jews out of slavery in Egypt. The passover meal is always the high point of the festival. Each item at the meal helps the Jews to remember what happenedto thei antecesors at the very first passover.
EUCHARIST
Jesus and his disciples were in Jerusalem for the Jewish festivel of passover . He believed that the Sadducees were going t ohave him arrested, yet hes wanted to shere the passovesr meal with his disciples. He wnt ahead and made the arrangements in secret.
SACRIFICE
It was only after the death and resurection of Jesus when the disciples understood the meaning of his words and actions and the last supper. Jesus tried to tell them that his death would not be an ordinary death. His deathswould be a sacrifice.

Ana nº9

- A Blind man.
- A person with Leprosy.
- The Disciples.
- The Beatitudes.
- Christians today.
A blind man.
Bartimeus a blind man was sitting in his usual place when he heard the notice, Jesús was in town and was comming his way. Bartimeus couldn´t believe it he had always wanted to meet him.
He knew that it was his chance so he started to shout:
- Jesus, Son of David, take pity of me.
Jesus heard him and went to talk with Bartimeus. Jesus heard him and Bartimeus told him that he wanted to be able to see and Jesus made the miracle:
- Go, your faith has made you well.
This story show us that also poor people have a place in the Kingdom of God.
A person with leprosy.
A man with leprosy who lived in Galilee while he was walking through the street,everyone shouted him:
- Unclean, Unclean!
Jesus was in Galilee and in place of moving away from him, he stayed still and then he said:
- If you want you can make me clean.
Jesus said:
- I want to make you clean.
And the man was healed.
This story show us that in the Kingdom of God no one is an outsider.
The disciples.
One day Simon and Andrew who where to fishermen brother´s, while they were fishing in the Lake Galilee, Jesus went to them and told them
- Come with me. And they did this.
Further along the lake side two more fishermen who where called James and John where also called by Jesus.
They all changed their way of life and now they followed he for bringing more people into the Kingdom of God.

The Beatitudes.
Which show us how does Jesus show us how we have to behave with others.

Christians today.
Wich tells how does Jesus want us to behave which others and how does Christians in the actuallity behave.

Bibliography: Religion for living book- Connie Duffy

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