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Spirit in Life: Love

Exploring the Fruits of the Spirit in short fun conversations

Beth and Kristofer Cowles discuss the Fruits of the Spirit as St. Paul lists in Galatians 5:22-23. Each video is 3 – 5 minutes long, and helpful for adults, parents, and kids to begin discussing the Fruits in their own lives – how to recognize them, how to practice them, and how to get better at them. Beth and Kristofer share their own experiences and challenges with bearing these Fruits in God’s Garden of Grace.

Episode 2 – Love gives a quick discussion of the Fruit of Love.

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More Holy Spirit Resources:

Be sure to visit and watch The Holy Spirit We Profess, a full video lesson by Beth Cowles, and see below the comments on this page for more Faith Formation resources from Holy Owned and Operated.

Lesson Handout

Click here for a one-page printable PDF to accompany the lesson.

Episode Resources:

Corresponding Podcast:

Here is the link to the Love episode of On the Road to Perfection.

Other Episode Resources:

In What is Love?, Agape – Sacrificial Love, and Eros – Sexual Romantic Love by Nicholas Kovacs, OFS, one of Holy Owned and Operated’s writers goes into more depth on the subject of Love.

Music:

Fruit of the Spirit Children’s Song by Bob Baxter

By Heart: Piano Solos by Jim Brickman

They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love by For King and Country

Verses:

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

1 Corinthians 13:13

Ephesians 5:22-25

Quote:

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

Pope John Paul II

Purpose of the Fruits of the Spirit Videos

Our purpose is to give the older family members the knowledge and tools to pass along the information to their younger members in a way that engages them. Teaching young children about the Holy Spirit is important and the relationship a child develops with the Holy Spirit can bear amazing fruit in their lives. We want to give you brief insights into the Fruits, and provide accompanying podcast-length discussions with each. To that end, each video is accompanied with links to an episode of On the Road to Perfection, Beth and Kristofer’s weekly podcast, where in each of the specific episodes they dive deeper into that particular fruit.

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Elementary Faith Formation Resources

Elementary Faith Formation resources are for children from Pre-K to 6th Grade and their parents and guardians, as well as the catechists who lead them in this stage of their journey of faith.

Click on the section below that best fits your needs

Young/School Age Children

Catholic Icing – Crafts for liturgical year and saints and more!

Look to Him and Be Radiant – Lessons, crafts, coloring pages, book recommendations, and more from a Catholic school religion teacher/Director of Religious Education

Teaching Catholic Kids – parent newsletter published by Our Sunday Visitor, Sunday Gospel reflections, crafts, liturgical season information and saint stories.

Parent-catechists and Parish catechists

Franciscan at Home – For a small subscription you can get in-depth training and mentoring from some of the world’s most respected and renowned Catechetical leaders. (And Beth happens to be one of those Mentors, and Kristofer will be soon!)

Catechist’s Journey – A Loyola Press sister site for Catechists to learn from and share with one another. Joe Paprocki is the website creator and lead catechist.

The Religion Teacher – Jared Dees’ site with weekly lesson plans, activities, and other useful information and resources for teaching your students.

If you or your parish use a curriculum

Most commonly used in parish catechesis, if your parish uses curriculum from one of these sources, ask your parish catechetical leader or pastor for access codes:

Sophis Press Curriculum Site – Parents or catechists can use the free downloads for Sunday Gospel lessons, current event lessons (for High School), and using Sacred Art for teaching the faith. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for these resources and to sign up to have them delivered to your inbox.)

RCIA Adapted for Children Resources

The Rite of Christian Initiation Adapted for Children is a many-faceted process for children who have not received the Sacraments of Initiation during the normally prescribed times, for whatever reason. These respurces are particularly for them, their parents or guardians, and sponsors, as well as the catechists and parishes who help form them and journey with them as they enter the Church.

Click here to find tons of free resources as well as Holy Owned and Operated’s members-only material.

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Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created. And you shall renew the face of the earth.
Amen.

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Just War (and Explaining It To Kids) – Episode 150

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The doctrine of Just War is a difficult thing to comprehend, let alone explain.

We all question every armed conflict, and support or decry it based on our own perceptions of the situation.

Is that right?

How does the Church view the conflict in Ukraine?

How does the Church view its own armed conflicts, and those warriors who fought and killed in the name of Jesus and Mother Church?

Where does following orders fall into this doctrine?

For more than 1600 years, The Church has reconciled turning the other cheek with a natural right to self-defense.

In this episode, we tackle the doctrine of Just War, giving the four tests as laid out in the Catechism, and attempt to share the idea in a way that can be shared with children to help them understand – which means Kristofer understands, too!