Exploring Catholic Social Teaching

LESSON PLAN
Invitation to witness: Tell a story about a time that you knew God loved you and was
protecting you. Frame the story using terms you have been using throughout the lesson.
Include in your story that Jesus sacrificed Himself for our good.
Formative Assessment
A. Connect the way parents protect their children to another way God protects His children — the
Guardian Angels.
B. Make sure students are quiet because you are about to share with them God’s word in
Scripture. Reassure students that they don’t need to understand every word.
C. Read aloud from Psalms 91:10-13:
No evil shall befall you,
no affliction come near your tent.
For he commands his angels with regard to you,
to guard you wherever you go.
With their hands they shall support you,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
You can tread upon the asp and the viper,
trample the lion and the dragon.
D. Talk with students about how every single person has a guardian angel who helps protect us
from evil and preserve us from sin.
E. Continue to reinforce this information as children color in the picture on The Guardian Angels
(Handout D).
F. Close with the Prayer to Your Guardian Angel:
Angel of God, my Guardian dear, to whom His love commits me here, ever this day be at my
side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
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