Godly Play Volume 8: Enrichment Presentations - Softcover

Berryman, Jerome W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193196047X ISBN 13: 9781931960472

Verlag: Church Publishing, 2012

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The eight volumes of Godly Play invite children from ages 3 to 12 to enter into a deeper and more spontaneous and playful relationship with God. Based on the Montessori method, Godly Play uses a purposeful telling of lessons and stories, engaging storytelling materials and the community of children themselves to encourage participants to seek and find their own answers to their faith questions.

This unique approach to religious education invites children to wonder about themselves, God and the world in a way that is both playful and meaningful. Godly Play is really a practice of spiritual guidance because it respects the innate spirituality of children and encourages them to use their own curiosity and imagination to experience deeply the joy and mystery of God.

Volume 8 of The Complete Guide to Godly Play includes the following lessons:

The Greatest Parable
Jesus and Jerusalem: The Story of Holy Week
Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Knowing Jesus in a New Way
The Church
The Liturgical Synthesis

It also includes a wealth of capstone insights gleaned from decades of research and practice, as well as an appendix summarizing the foundational literature and describing the entirety of the Godly Play spiral curriculum as it exists today.

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The late Jerome W. Berryman was the founder of Godly Play and had years of experience working with children ages 2–18. Priest, writer, lecturer, and workshop leader, Berryman was, for years, Senior Fellow of the Center for the Theology of Childhood. He was the author of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Teaching Godly Play, Children and the Theologians, The Spiritual Guidance of Children, and Stories of God at Home.
 

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The Complete Guide to Godly Play

By Jerome W. Berryman, Brian Dumm

Church Publishing Incorporated

Copyright © 2012 Jerome W. Berryman
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-931960-47-2

Contents

 
 
 
Foreword
 
 
 
Introduction
 
 
 
Godly Play room
 
 
 
Lesson 1: The Greatest Parable—The Presentation without Words
 
 
 
Lesson 2: The Greatest Parable— The Presentation with Words, Part 1: Three Key Moments of Presence
 
 
 
Lesson 3: The Greatest Parable— The Presentation with Words, Part 2: The Ministry in Galilee
 
 
 
Lesson 4: The Greatest Parable— The Presentation with Words, Part 3: The Ministry in Judea
 
 
 
Lesson 5: Jesus and Jerusalem: The Story of Holy Week
 
 
 
Lesson 6: Mary, the Mother of Jesus
 
 
 
Lesson 7: Knowing Jesus in a New Way, Part 1:— Known in Absence
 
 
 
Lesson 8: Knowing Jesus in a New Way, Part 2:— Known in the Breaking of Bread
 
 
 
Lesson 9: Knowing Jesus in a New Way, Part 3:— Known in Doubt
 
 
 
Lesson 10: Knowing Jesus in a New Way, Part 4:— Known in the Morning
 
 
 
Lesson 11: Knowing Jesus in a New Way, Part 5:— Known in Making Him Known
 
 
 
Lesson 12: Knowing Jesus in a New Way, Part 6:— Known in Waiting
 
 
 
Lesson 13: Knowing Jesus in a New Way, Part 7:— Known by the Holy Spirit
 
 
 
Lesson 14: The Church
 
 
 
Lesson 15: The Liturgical Synthesis
 
 
 
Appendix - The Foundational Literature for Godly Play and the Spiral Curriculum
 
 
 

Excerpt

CHAPTER 1

THE GREATEST PARABLE(THE PRESENTATION WITHOUT WORDS)

LESSON NOTES:

FOCUS: GOD'S ELUSIVE PRESENCE IN THE PUBLIC MINISTRY OF JESUS (THEGOPELS)

• Core Presentation

THE MATERIAL

• Location: New Testament Shelf, Top Shelf

• Pieces: Thirteen Triangle-Shaped Plaques With Illustrations On One Side AndColors On The Other, Gold Triangular Box With Purple "Jerusalem Cross" On TheCover

• Underlay: Borrowed From "The Circle Of The Holy Eucharist," "The Parable OfThe Good Shepherd," Or Another Appropriate Lesson. (Since The Whole RoomEmbodies The Christian Language System That Flows From Jesus' Life There AreMany More Possibilities For Possible Underlays Than The Two MentionedAbove.)

This is the first lesson in a series of four lessons called "The GreatestParable." These four lessons present Jesus' public ministry and the relation ofhis presence to the whole Christian language system.

This is a parable, because Jesus is not a window through which God canbe glimpsed passing by. Rather, Jesus is an embodiment of God in the frailty andfinitude of a human being. Like a parable, Jesus' life hides as well as reveals.It hides and reveals both the divinity and humanity of Jesus, but also withgrace, and to a lesser degree, the divinity and humanity in our lives as well.

This is "The Greatest Parable," because Jesus is the source of parables.He is the "Parable Maker" out of whose life comes our sacred stories, liturgy,and contemplative silence, as well as parables. This lesson, therefore, needs todraw to itself and express the whole Christian language system as represented inthe Godly Play room.

The goal of this presentation is to allow the inexhaustible meaning andlinguistic complexity of Jesus to shine through with a kind of deep simplicitythat it is open to people of all ages and stages of faith development.

BACKGROUND

The background to this presentation is our whole history as Christian People. Wehave followed the elusive presence of God from the creation itself to thejourney's culmination in Jesus, and then on to the present. This long story ofour origins includes both the stability of this revelation and an open door forthe journey to continue—all with the same creativity we began with.

As Samuel Terrien writes in The Elusive Presence: Toward a New BiblicalTheology (1978): "When presence is 'guaranteed' to human senses or reason,it is no longer real presence. The proprietary sight of the glory destroys thevision, whether in the temple of Zion or in the Eucharistic body. ... Inbiblical faith, presence eludes but does not delude (476)." Our longing for Godis both a yearning for the stability of a rock and the flowing of a livingspring in the desert, as the psalms so vividly express. It is the ever-changingreality of a trusted relationship.

The guarantee against turning Jesus into an idol or cliché is that we have fourGospels rather than just one. The creative mix of the first four interpretationsof Jesus' life, death, and resurrection continues to generate new meaning andinsight about the stable yet elusive presence of our redemptive companion forthe journey.

This lesson provides a framework for continued reflection and creative insightabout Jesus' elusive presence. Its complexity is focused on a simple frameworkwithin which the children (and adults) can deepen their relationship with Jesusin an expanding way, rather than reducing it to something superficial that lacksrespect for both children and for Jesus' life, death, and resurrection.

This lesson can stand alone, but it is not intended to just tell the story ofJesus' public ministry. It is also intended to show—in the contextof a Godly Play room—how Jesus is the source of the Christian languagesystem, which is both our way for making personal, existential meaning and ourway for living together in community.

Present this lesson when the curiosity of the children pushes for it or whenyou, as the storyteller, feel especially called to invite them to becomeinvolved in it. Since Jesus comes, called or uncalled, this approach to timingcan be disruptive to schedules and long-range plans, which is appropriate.

NOTES ON THE MATERIAL

The thirteen triangle-shaped images fit together in two hexagons to tell thestory of Jesus' public ministry. The triangles are arranged in three groups. Thefirst group is gold on the back and shows the beginning, middle, and ending ofthe story by evoking The Annunciation, The Transfiguration, and TheResurrection. These three events in Jesus' life integrate the stories of hisministry in Galilee and Judea, which form the two hexagons. The gold trianglesof the Annunciation and the Resurrection complete the hexagons and TheTransfiguration joins them into one story.

The colors on the backs of the triangles are significant. The gold on the firstthree triangles marks three key moments in Jesus' life when God's presence wasespecially evident. The blue on the first five triangles signifies one of thetraditional colors for Mary and the blue water of the Sea of Galilee for Jesus'Galilean ministry. The gray on the second set of five triangles suggests thewalls of Jerusalem and the great stone, which shut Jesus in the tomb that couldnot hold him.

The gold, triangular box, which contains the thirteen triangles, stands up onits base to suggest its relation to the sacred stories and its key position inthe Godly Play room. The gold color and lid to the box link it to the parables.The purple cross on the container's...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Church Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 193196047X
• ISBN 13: 9781931960472
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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