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The Steps of a Small Group Meeting

Coming Aboard and Welcoming                        10 Minutes

Centering Time                                                              10 Minutes

  • Lighting of the Group Christ Candle
  • Music, Silent Prayer
  • Group Recitation of the “Covenant Prayer”

Review of the Week                                                      30 Minutes

  • Personal Stories or God-Sightings
  • Events from the News
  • Events in the Parish, Within the Universal Church
  • The Revelation Question: Does anyone feel, sense, hear, intuit the voice, movement, will, of God in the events of our lives?

Breaking Open the Word                                            30 Minutes

  • Proclamation of Sacred Scripture
  • Video Reflection (Use before session or during session
  • Faith Sharing Questions

A Look at the Future – Responding                     30 Minutes

  • What am I going to do, concretely, to live the Gospel?
  • What can we do short-range or long-term to transform society?
  • What outreach or social justice mission could we embrace?

Options:       

  • One-on-One Ministry
  • Smaller Groups within the Large Group

Blessing Each Other and
Sending Each Other Forth       10 Minutes

(Group holding hands, in circle, faces the doors and windows in a sense of mission or being sent out.)

  • Shared Prayer
  • Petitions
  • Prayer – Our Father
 
updated September 30, 2007