Life and Death

Aim: This session seeks to wrap up the entire unit by turning once again from the specific issues to the big picture of our life in Christ. Hopefully, having looked at some serious issues and what a Christian response to them really means, teens will have…

Aim:. This session will focus on the causes which lead to suicide and how it relates to the loss of faith seen in the other sessions' issues. As this may be the most common and immediate life and death matter for teens, it is important to have built up a solid foundation …

"Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness . . . ." Aim: This session introduces the foundations of Orthodox anthropology in an accessible manner to teens. Almost any discussion about life and death choices in today's society depends on a person's…

What's Inside: Session 1: The Living Icon: The Sanctity of Human Life Session 2: “With the Saints Give Rest, O Lord”: Death and Dying Session 3: “Where Sickness and Sorrow Are No More”: Euthanasia Session 4: “Blessed is the fruit of your womb”: Abortion Session 5: “Forgive them…

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ but I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.” (Matthew 5:38-39.) Aim: Though capital punishment has…

The Pains of childbearing are part of the eternal wisdom: From barrenness, the God-loving Elizabeth gave birth! Let us the faithful remember her with rejoicing, glorifying the All Good One.   (From the Praises for Sept. 5, the feast of the Holy Prophet Zachariah and the Righteous…

"A Christian ending to our life, painless, blameless, and peaceful . . . let us ask of the Lord.” — Litany of the Prosthesis Aim: There are several important issues that are dealt with in this session. The basic question of "why do bad…

"With the Saints give rest O Christ, to the souls of thy servants, where sickness and sorrow are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting.” Aim: This session attempts to present the Orthodox approach to dying and death. Maybe some participants are…