A.M.D.G.
Hello, scholars!
Please see the link below to access your / your classmates' presentations on either Marian Apparitions or Works of Mercy for round 2.
While I am still working on viewing and assessing these, I am impressed, thus far, with those I have finished for scoring.
I am looking forward to viewing more tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday of this week.
Further to my earlier email from today (cf. "Ego Te Absolvo" in subject line), required notations for these presentations are no longer a requirement for this course.
I have amended this requirement on the basis of limited time left in the academic year and the necessity of focus to remain on the completion and fulfillment of Critical Film Analysis assignments.
If you *have* submitted required notations for Round 1 of presentations (thank you, Bryce, Luca, and Cassie), congratulations, you have earned yourselves not only "bragging rights" for being fantastic, but also one $5 gift card per person to Gibson's Donuts of East Memphis.
I'll make sure you guys get those either via mail or when I finally get to see you again for graduation / confirmation or both.
Again, for others, if you have *not* yet submitted a presentation, I need it! Time is running short to get those turned in (please see your other email from today).
Gratefully,
Anthony :)
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS [ROUND 2 FOR VIEWING]
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Monday, May 4, 2020
Critical Film Analysis [Exam]
A.M.D.G.
Hello, young theologians!
Below, you can find YouTube links to the "trailers" (previews) of each of the three movie possibilities for your critical film analysis (which serves as your final exam) for our religion course.
Go through them, watch each one, and make your selection.
Once you have chosen, locate the movie on whatever streaming service (Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc.) you have or where the movie is available and watch it. The link to your critical film analysis (a Google Form) is below.
My suggestion is that you either complete the form as you watch the movie OR take notes during the movie and complete the form after. You will NOT be able to successfully pass the form without watching the entire movie.
Now, the movie you choose may cost between $2.99 - $6.99 to rent to watch. If it does, so be it. Tell your parents it is for your final exam grade.
Without further ado, here are your choices:
The Guardian (2016; Starring Ashton Kutcher & Kevin Costner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbNYtFGhHU
Gifted (2017; Starring McKenna Grace & Chris Evans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI01wBXGHUs
Because of Gracia (2017; Starring Moriah Peters & Chris Massoglia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNn9-TbEb8
The link to complete your critical film analysis may be accessed here:
CRITICAL FILM ANALYSIS [EXAM]
I hope you enjoy the movie you choose and I wish you good luck in your efforts!
God love & God bless each one of you!
Anthony :)
Hello, young theologians!
Below, you can find YouTube links to the "trailers" (previews) of each of the three movie possibilities for your critical film analysis (which serves as your final exam) for our religion course.
Go through them, watch each one, and make your selection.
Once you have chosen, locate the movie on whatever streaming service (Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc.) you have or where the movie is available and watch it. The link to your critical film analysis (a Google Form) is below.
My suggestion is that you either complete the form as you watch the movie OR take notes during the movie and complete the form after. You will NOT be able to successfully pass the form without watching the entire movie.
Now, the movie you choose may cost between $2.99 - $6.99 to rent to watch. If it does, so be it. Tell your parents it is for your final exam grade.
Without further ado, here are your choices:
The Guardian (2016; Starring Ashton Kutcher & Kevin Costner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbNYtFGhHU
Gifted (2017; Starring McKenna Grace & Chris Evans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI01wBXGHUs
Because of Gracia (2017; Starring Moriah Peters & Chris Massoglia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNn9-TbEb8
The link to complete your critical film analysis may be accessed here:
CRITICAL FILM ANALYSIS [EXAM]
I hope you enjoy the movie you choose and I wish you good luck in your efforts!
God love & God bless each one of you!
Anthony :)
Friday, April 24, 2020
Project Presentations for Required Notations [Round 1]
A.M.D.G.
Happy Friday, Happy Easter Season, and Happy Weekend, novice theologians!
Below, please find the link to a Google Drive folder I have created to house your project presentations and/or audio narrations which accompany them.
You should begin viewing your classmates presentations as soon as you are able so that you can complete your required notations (see the original project directives for more about this requirement).
I am VERY pleased and impressed (overall) by this first batch of presentations. These learners have 'set the bar' rather high for those of you who follow after them.
The hope is that you will not only learn from their excellent examples, but will use their exemplary works as 'guides' of sorts for what your projects should amount to.
Please send along, via email, your projects to me as you complete them (before their due date, of course) AS WELL AS your required notations for this first round of presentations.
Remember that you DO NOT need to complete a required notation for your own project.
Imparting to you all, as always, the blessing of the Holy Spirit,
Anthony
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS ROUND 1
Happy Friday, Happy Easter Season, and Happy Weekend, novice theologians!
Below, please find the link to a Google Drive folder I have created to house your project presentations and/or audio narrations which accompany them.
You should begin viewing your classmates presentations as soon as you are able so that you can complete your required notations (see the original project directives for more about this requirement).
I am VERY pleased and impressed (overall) by this first batch of presentations. These learners have 'set the bar' rather high for those of you who follow after them.
The hope is that you will not only learn from their excellent examples, but will use their exemplary works as 'guides' of sorts for what your projects should amount to.
Please send along, via email, your projects to me as you complete them (before their due date, of course) AS WELL AS your required notations for this first round of presentations.
Remember that you DO NOT need to complete a required notation for your own project.
Imparting to you all, as always, the blessing of the Holy Spirit,
Anthony
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS ROUND 1
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Assignment for 15 - 19 April, 2020 [Concentrated Reflection Exercises, On 'The Beatitudes' & the 'Works of Mercy']
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CHRIST IS RISEN! Alleluia! ALLELUIA!
A very happy, holy, and joyous Easter to you, one and all!
I hope that each one of you are staying healthy, well, and in good spirits, and that your Easter - however different this year as it may have been - was (and is, since Easter lasts for 50 days in our faith tradition) filled with every grace, blessing, and happiness!
You all should be well underway in working on your Marian Apparition or Works of Mercy project.
If you have not yet selected and registered for a topic, I suggest you scroll through the postings on this website, locate the one which links to the topic selection page, and make your selection, as due dates for required presentation will begin next week.
A reminder that all the information (in terms of directives / instructions) you need to complete your projects are listed, via link, on the same posting as features your selection link.
NOW -- on to this week's content concerning Jesus' Beatitudes and the Works of Mercy...
Please access the link below which will take you to your assignment for this week.
You will notice that it is a bit more involved (though still not AS involved as your project) and that its point value is also higher than usual.
This is to prepare you further for the type of work and dedicated involvement necessary to succeed in your project as well as to prepare you for the depth of work which will be expected of you as you prepare to move on to the high school level.
Because this assignment is lengthier, you have until 11pm on Sunday evening, 19 April. 2020 to complete and submit it.
You will note that there are 4 exercises to this assignment and 4 days between now and Sunday.
[Oh, look at how that worked out!] :)
Don't delay!
Begin your work on this assignment because you also need to be working on your projects as well.
If you delay, you risk falling behind (or, for some of you, even further behind).
As always, I remain available to you via email should you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
Know that each of you remain in my prayers; please keep me in yours as well!
Imparting to you all, the blessing of the Holy Spirit,
Anthony :)
LINK TO CONCENTRATED REFLECTION EXERCISES
CHRIST IS RISEN! Alleluia! ALLELUIA!
A very happy, holy, and joyous Easter to you, one and all!
I hope that each one of you are staying healthy, well, and in good spirits, and that your Easter - however different this year as it may have been - was (and is, since Easter lasts for 50 days in our faith tradition) filled with every grace, blessing, and happiness!
You all should be well underway in working on your Marian Apparition or Works of Mercy project.
If you have not yet selected and registered for a topic, I suggest you scroll through the postings on this website, locate the one which links to the topic selection page, and make your selection, as due dates for required presentation will begin next week.
A reminder that all the information (in terms of directives / instructions) you need to complete your projects are listed, via link, on the same posting as features your selection link.
NOW -- on to this week's content concerning Jesus' Beatitudes and the Works of Mercy...
Please access the link below which will take you to your assignment for this week.
You will notice that it is a bit more involved (though still not AS involved as your project) and that its point value is also higher than usual.
This is to prepare you further for the type of work and dedicated involvement necessary to succeed in your project as well as to prepare you for the depth of work which will be expected of you as you prepare to move on to the high school level.
Because this assignment is lengthier, you have until 11pm on Sunday evening, 19 April. 2020 to complete and submit it.
You will note that there are 4 exercises to this assignment and 4 days between now and Sunday.
[Oh, look at how that worked out!] :)
Don't delay!
Begin your work on this assignment because you also need to be working on your projects as well.
If you delay, you risk falling behind (or, for some of you, even further behind).
As always, I remain available to you via email should you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
Know that each of you remain in my prayers; please keep me in yours as well!
Imparting to you all, the blessing of the Holy Spirit,
Anthony :)
LINK TO CONCENTRATED REFLECTION EXERCISES
Friday, April 10, 2020
A Meditation for Holy Week & Easter During a Time of Pandemic
Holy
Week & Easter During a Time of Pandemic: A Spiritual Meditation
By
Anthony Maranise, Obl.S.B.
We
tend to view the happenings around us through a “me-centered” prism. Some
examples help: That four-engine long train is going to make me late for
work!; That Dow plunge cost me so much yesterday!; perhaps even, Social
distance is making me stir-crazy! How relevant that last one, right?
This
year, Holy Week and Easter is a bit different for us all. We are living the
most hallowed of liturgical seasons amidst one of recent history’s most
difficult, challenging, and uncertain seasons — that of a viral pandemic.
‘Social distancing’, then, is a term to which many of us have become
accustomed. As an infection mitigation effort, it refers to the necessity to
physically withdraw from close contact with one another. These efforts are not
cruel, but selfless as through them, we can help to ‘slow the spread’ of
illness and keep safer those with compromised immune systems and the elderly
for whom illness can be more costly.
Be
that as it may, how are we supposed to live Holy Week without being able to
gather in our churches for worship? To celebrate Easter’s exceeding joys
without being able to be close to our families and friends? It is truly a
different kind of Holy Week this year, and it will be a different of Easter as
well.
Let’s
shift from that typical “me-centered” prism for a moment. Consider this,
instead:
Both
voluntarily and involuntarily, the object of our imitation and devotion in this
holiest of time of the year — Jesus, Himself — experienced and knew ‘social
distance.’
In
two salient instances during what Religion scholars have revealed to be the
timeline of historical events which make up the Easter Triduum (Holy Thursday,
Good Friday, and Holy Saturday) of Holy Week, Jesus either ‘socially distanced’
or was ‘socially distant’ from those He loved.
- After His
Last Supper, Jesus went with His Apostles into a nearby garden known as
Gethsemane. He asks the Apostles to settle there for a bit, to pray, and
to keep watch with Him. Though together at first, all the synoptic Gospels
report that Jesus withdraws Himself from them for a while to be alone in
prayer by Himself. He ‘socially distances’ Himself and experiences His agonia
(literally, ‘a struggle towards victory;’ ‘severe emotional anguish’),
only to emerge strengthened in will, spirit, and mission.
- Hours later,
after Jesus is arrested, mocked, condemned, shamed, brutally scourged, and
made to carry His own instrument of torture — all willingly, for the sake
of our redemption — He is nailed to the Cross. The base of His Cross is
placed in a hole in the ground and filled in with rock-pebbles to support
its vertical position. Here, in this second instance, when Jesus is lifted
high up above the onlookers in the crowd, we see Him made ‘socially
distant’, indeed, physically separated from those various others who were
usually so physically close to Him.
In
this different kind of Holy Week, this different kind of Easter, we can be sure
that though we face our own sorts of ‘emotional anguish’ precipitated by being
‘socially distant’ from those we love, we do so, not out of a
“me-centeredness”, but out of an expression of care and concern for the
well-being of those we love — to keep them safe. We do this inspired by Jesus’
first instance of ‘social distancing’ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Though
ever fully Divine and God, we so often forget that Jesus, while on earth, was
fully human as well. Like any human facing a major injustice and forthcoming
unimaginable suffering, He ‘needed a moment’ to collect and compose Himself. He
needed spiritual and emotional strengthening which God, the Father provided Him
in earnest. He emerged from that agonia even stronger. From our own
‘social distancing’, so also shall we, if only we seek, as Jesus did, strength
from God.
Finally,
our being ‘socially distant’ need not necessitate ‘spiritual distance’ in us.
We should continue to look to Jesus in this Holy Week, as we have in all Holy
Weeks past, as we should in all Holy Weeks to come, and always. We should look
upon His Cross, but look into the ‘distance’ beyond it even more intently
because Jesus’ own history ends not in His being ‘socially distant’ on that
Cross. He rises! He rises from death and above it. He vanquishes it, conquers
it, overcomes it, and returns from His ‘social distance’ to be once again
reunited with and among those He loves!
Monday, April 6, 2020
Marian Apparition / Works of Mercy Project Directives & Selection
A.M.D.G.
Peace, you wonderfully bright and brilliant scholars! :)
Welcome to Holy Week! I hope yours and that of your family is filled with every grace and blessing!
Below, you will find the following items which require your attention:
1) A link wherein you'll be able to view all available topics as well as to sign up for which topic you would like to pursue for your project. Reminder: These topics each allow for two persons to select them, but no more than two. If two have already chosen that topic, it is no longer eligible for selection. You'll also be able to notice the due-dates for your project via this link.
2) A document which explains in further detail the expectations, requirements, and general instructions about how you are to conduct the research, compilation, presentation, and submission of your project concerning either Marian Apparitions, the Corporal Works of Mercy, or the Spiritual Works of Mercy that you will choose.
>>> TOPIC SELECTION <<<
>>> PROJECT DIRECTIVES <<<
The majority of questions you may have about the project itself can and should be thoroughly answered by your CAREFUL and ATTENTIVE reading of the project directives. However, and as always, should you have additional questions, comments, and/or concerns, please reach out to me.
Be absolutely sure of my continued prayers and thanksgiving for each one of you; and please, keep me in your prayers as well.
Very gratefully, in the Heart of Christ, the King,
Anthony :)
Peace, you wonderfully bright and brilliant scholars! :)
Welcome to Holy Week! I hope yours and that of your family is filled with every grace and blessing!
Below, you will find the following items which require your attention:
1) A link wherein you'll be able to view all available topics as well as to sign up for which topic you would like to pursue for your project. Reminder: These topics each allow for two persons to select them, but no more than two. If two have already chosen that topic, it is no longer eligible for selection. You'll also be able to notice the due-dates for your project via this link.
2) A document which explains in further detail the expectations, requirements, and general instructions about how you are to conduct the research, compilation, presentation, and submission of your project concerning either Marian Apparitions, the Corporal Works of Mercy, or the Spiritual Works of Mercy that you will choose.
>>> TOPIC SELECTION <<<
>>> PROJECT DIRECTIVES <<<
The majority of questions you may have about the project itself can and should be thoroughly answered by your CAREFUL and ATTENTIVE reading of the project directives. However, and as always, should you have additional questions, comments, and/or concerns, please reach out to me.
Be absolutely sure of my continued prayers and thanksgiving for each one of you; and please, keep me in your prayers as well.
Very gratefully, in the Heart of Christ, the King,
Anthony :)
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Assignment for Friday, 3 April, 2020
A.M.D.G.
Your assignment for today and the weekend (from me, at least) should be simple; and I believe you may even find it enjoyable.
Part A: If you owe me any assignments, please work towards completing and submitting those. I will be sending an email to you (individually) containing an accounting of any assignments which the grade book indicates as missing from you for this 4th quarter.
Part B: This part is perhaps the most important...
Take some time over this weekend to go outdoors for even a few moments and enjoy some (hopefully) nice weather; or do something enjoyable and relaxing. Be sure to stay appropriately 'socially distanced' for the sake of your own health, but yes, go outdoors (if the weather is nice) and if not, do something else good that you enjoy.
You all have been working very hard for me and I am truly very proud of each one of you. You deserve a little time to just "be" so enjoy it.
We'll 'hit the ground running,' as they say next week and in the coming weeks.
Remember that next week is Holy Week as we prepare to celebrate the holiest and most beautiful day in the Christian calendar, EASTER (Christ's Resurrection)!
Take good care, stay healthy, be safe; and above all, know this -- each one of you is wanted, loved, and necessary to God and this world!
I am so incredibly grateful to be one of your teachers. Truly!
Know that you all remain in my prayers; please keep me in yours.
Enjoy your weekend and I shall 'see' you all (online) next week!
Very gratefully in the Heart of Jesus,
Anthony :)
Your assignment for today and the weekend (from me, at least) should be simple; and I believe you may even find it enjoyable.
Part A: If you owe me any assignments, please work towards completing and submitting those. I will be sending an email to you (individually) containing an accounting of any assignments which the grade book indicates as missing from you for this 4th quarter.
Part B: This part is perhaps the most important...
Take some time over this weekend to go outdoors for even a few moments and enjoy some (hopefully) nice weather; or do something enjoyable and relaxing. Be sure to stay appropriately 'socially distanced' for the sake of your own health, but yes, go outdoors (if the weather is nice) and if not, do something else good that you enjoy.
You all have been working very hard for me and I am truly very proud of each one of you. You deserve a little time to just "be" so enjoy it.
We'll 'hit the ground running,' as they say next week and in the coming weeks.
Remember that next week is Holy Week as we prepare to celebrate the holiest and most beautiful day in the Christian calendar, EASTER (Christ's Resurrection)!
Take good care, stay healthy, be safe; and above all, know this -- each one of you is wanted, loved, and necessary to God and this world!
I am so incredibly grateful to be one of your teachers. Truly!
Know that you all remain in my prayers; please keep me in yours.
Enjoy your weekend and I shall 'see' you all (online) next week!
Very gratefully in the Heart of Jesus,
Anthony :)
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