Grade 6 Lesson 10
Grade 6 Lesson 10: A Christian Home
Learning Outcomes
Blessing of the Home
- G6.LO32 - Connect the significance of the Holy Trinity visiting Abraham and Jesus visiting the house of Zacchaeus to the blessing of the home.
- G6.LO33 - Examine how the blessing of the house is welcoming God.
Textbook Lesson
- USA & Canada: Lesson 10 Textbook PDF
- UEA: Lesson 10 Textbook PDF
Expanding Thoughts on Lesson
- Purification of the House through Sanctified Water
- The prayer here says: "May this water be blessed and sanctified so that it may be sprinkled for the blessing of this home.
Lesson Resources
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Connecting Materials
- Why Do We Have Our Homes Blessed?, by Phyllis Meshel Onest (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America)
- NOTE: In some other Churches, the house blessing is an extension of the Feast of Den’aha (Theophany) where the water is consecrated and sprinkled upon the members of the Church for the sanctification and glorification of the worshippers. The service of blessing, which began in the church, is finished with the sprinkling of water in the home during House Blessing so we can extend the grace of God to our individual dwelling.
