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Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Ordinary Time: Easter to Advent

Build.Plant.Grow provides catechetical instruction for children based on the Sunday readings of the Christian Church during the period beginning with Advent up to and including the closure of the liturgical year with the Feast of Christ the King. These readings from the Lectionary are divided into three-year cycles: A, B, and C. In 2014-15, for example, readings are from Cycle B. 
Lesson plans include a short exegesis of the readings, application to a children’s book, and the virtue that is common to the Bible readings and the children’s book, activities to extend the understanding of the virtue, practical advice for incorporating the virtue in an age-appropriate manner. Examples of the children’s books include such favorites as Love You Forever, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Giving Tree, and All the Places You’ll Go.
Cycle A

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

The Feast of All Saints

All Soul's Day

Dedication of Lateran Basilica

Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

Cycle B

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Feast of All Saints

All Soul's Day

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

Dedication of Lateran Basilica