1. Sister Margaret Rose Adams, IHM Educational Consultant, MERIT smgtadams@gmail.com

2.  Inspire participants in their personal life so they may inspire students in their classes.  Learn ways to bring an Eucharistic understanding to your students through resources, art projects, music and websites.  Explain resources in the handout.

3.  What does the Eucharist mean in your life and how may you share that with your students?

4.  Go to: www.thereligionteacher.comwww.thereligionteacher.com  Download the free Guide to Lesson Planning  The book is a wonderful tool for lesson planning including 250 Activities and Teaching Strategies.

5.  Go to: www.thememorycross.comwww.thememorycross.com  Request a free sample of their products. Samples will be circulated.  Caution: the one on the Eucharist is a protestant version.

6.  Jesus said “Do this in memory of me.”  We are asked to respond in love and service to the community. We open our hearts to the needs of all humanity, so that sharing their grief and anguish, their joy and hope, we may faithfully advance together on the way to your kingdom.

7.  The other sacraments give us grace, The Holy Eucharist gives us grace and the Author of all grace, Jesus, God and Man. It is the center of all else the Church has and does.  The Eucharist is recorded in three of the four Gospels.

8.  Eucharist nourishes us.  We often feel a profound hunger to unite ourselves with the Source of all love who nourishes us and forms us into one body.

9.  Mass  Last Supper  Do this in remembrance of me  This is my Body  Blessed Sacrament  Fifth Luminous Mystery  Forty Hours Devotion

10.  Spend time in prayer with the scriptures.  Ask the Holy Spirit to be with you in your classes.  What strikes you as important in the lesson.  Model prayer for your students.  Share your ideas with your students in others. Our thoughts are worth sharing.

11.  Oh No!!!  Both concepts call for the transfer of learning.  Teach students that what they learn in one academic area, they may also use it in another.  For example...

12.  Taught in reading  Think about the Eucharist, were there any hints of the Eucharist prior to the Last Supper?  Think about God giving Moses and the Israelites bread in the desert – Manna from heaven.  Think about Jesus Feeding 5000.

13. Mass40 hours Last Supper Adoration Consecration Exposition Receiving communion Prayer Jesus gave us the gift of himself in the The Eucharist Luminous Mysteries The Eucharist forms the 5 th inst. Of Euch. Core of the Catholic Events in life of Jesus Faith. Created by PJPII

14.  You tube!  Go to youtube and put in the scripture reference for Sunday’s Gospel. You will be surprised what you find. If you don’t have time to sift through all that is there, visit Bell Gallagher’s site at: http://teacherweb.com/PA/LaSalleAcademyand StMartindePorres/MsGallagher/apt17.aspx

17.  Discover the power of Google.  Google the title of your religion lesson.  Look at religious pictures on Google images. Many times when you click on the image, it will take you to a useful website.

18.  Paper plate projects for Eucharist, Confirmation, Lent.  Make chalices from plastic wine glasses from the Dollar Store.  Use tissue paper to create nice designs.

19.  Thank you for coming. Please feel free to contact me for any resources shared or questions that you may have.  Sister Margaret Rose Adams, IHM smgtadams@gmail.com