Steps of a Small Group

The Steps of a Small Group Meeting

 

  • Coming Aboard and Welcoming                                                      10 minutes

 

  • Centering Time                                                                                                   10 minutes
    • Lighting of Christ candle
    • Music and Silent Prayer
    • Recitation of covenant prayer

 

  • Review of the Week                                                                                            30 minutes
    • Personal stories and God Sightings
    • Events from the news
    • Events from the parish or within the Church
    • Revelation question: Does anyone feel, sense, hear, and intuit the voice, movement, will of God in our lives?

 

  • Breaking Open the Word                                                                               30 minutes
    • Proclamation of Sacred Scripture
    • Reflection page
    • Faith sharing questions

 

  • A Look at the Future – Responding                                                               30 minutes
    • What are we going to do to live the Gospel?
    • How can we transform society?
    • What outreach or social justice mission could we embrace?
    • Options: one on one ministry or smaller groups with the large group

 

  • Closing                                                                                                                     10 minutes
    • Blessing each other and sending each other forth
    • Group holding hands facing the doors and windows
    • Petitions
    • Lord’s Prayer             
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