Directions

1. Have your students read the Gospel passage, or read it aloud to your students, and then answer the focus questions.
2. Review and discuss the answers when they have completed the focus questions.
3. Next, have your students read about the Solemnity of All Saints.
4. Then, arrange students into groups of three or four. Have each group complete the Lives of the Saints Activity. Each group should choose two saints and look up their biographies either online or in a lives of the saints book.
5. Have each group choose one of the saints they studied, stand and briefly present their findings, specifically how that saint loved and served God and how the saint loved and served others.
6. Conclude by praying a litany of the saints, such as the one found at the following link: SophiaOnline.org/LitanyOfSaints.

Answer Key

Focus Questions

1. From a mountain. This is the beginning of Jesus’ most famous teaching, the Sermon on the Mount.
2. The blessed are the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the clean of heart, the peacemakers, and those who are persecuted for Christ’s sake. Their reward is the Kingdom of Heaven,comfort, the land, satisfaction, mercy, seeing God, being a child of God, and the Kingdom of Heaven.
3. They must be marked with God’s seal. They come from all of the tribes of Israel.
4. The saints in Heaven. They are praising and worshipping God. They came from every nation and people on the earth.
5. The Beatitudes teach us how to be saints, how to be like Christ. By living the Beatitudes, we are faithfully living the Christian life and seeking holiness.