Directions

A. Have your students read the Gospel passage for the week and complete the focus and reflection questions.

B. Review and discuss the answers when they have completed the focus questions.

C. Have your students read and complete the Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed activity.

D. Review and discuss the answers together when they have completed the activity.

Answer Key

Focus Questions

1. “Increase our faith.”
2. “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”
3. Jesus is suggesting that His Apostles currently have only a small amount of faith – smaller than a mustard seed.
4. One does not praise or reward their servant for doing only what is expected of him.
5. A servant should obediently and humbly do what is expected of him without expectation of a reward or praise.

Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed Focus and Reflection Questions

1. A prophet to the nations.
2. He did not know how to speak because he was too young.
3. “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ To whomever I send you, you shall go; whatever I command you, you shall speak.”
4. God would be with him to deliver him and place His words in his mouth.
5. God appointed Jeremiah over nations and over kingdoms, and gave him the power to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.
6. Jesus told His Apostles that with only a small amount of faith, they could do seemingly impossible things. Likewise, Jeremiah felt small, too young, to do what God asked of Him, but with God, even the smallest, or youngest, or least important can accomplish great, seemingly impossible things.
7. Accept reasoned answers. 
8. Accept reasoned answers.
9. Accept reasoned answers.

Directions

A. Read the Gospel passage aloud to your students as they follow along. Then discuss the focus and reflection questions with them as a class.

B. Have your students complete the Code Break activity.

Answer Key

Focus Questions 

1. They asked Him to increase their faith.
2. “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”
3. A servant should obediently and humbly do what is expected of him without expectation of a reward or praise. 

Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed Code Break Activity

1. “Increase our faith!”