SHARING THIS WEEK'S GOSPEL THEME IN SUNDAY CHURCH SCHOOL

Object: Blindfolds and earplugs for every student

Teachers: This week's Gospel reading will provide your class with a good opportunity for a lesson in empathy. You will need about half as many good snug blindfolds as you have students, and about the same number of sound-proof earplugs. You will also need a fairly complex task (like the assembly of a toy model or the rearranging of classroom furniture). Some of the instructions for the task should be given to the students in spoken form, while other portions of the instructions should be written (or simply diagrammed for non read…