What are you thankful for in

2023?
The Pauline Letters
Story of Saul
• Saul was a Greek-speaking Jew from Asia Minor
• He was born in Tarsus
• He persecuted the early Christians in Jerusalem.
• He was feared by many Christian which led them
to leave Jerusalem.
• He had a conversion while he was travelling to
Damascus.
Saul’s Conversion
Pauline epistles to churches
• Romans. Paul explains how the gospel works and how to respond. Paul
wrote this letter before he had visited the Roman church.
• 1 Corinthians. In 55 A.D., Paul admonished the local church that he had
founded in Corinth.
• 2 Corinthians. Come 56 A.D., the Corinthian church had escalated and
then resolved their conflict with Paul. Second Corinthians is Paul’s a
letter of forgiveness and reconciliation.
• Galatians. Someone had misled the churches of Galatia—resubjecting
them to the Law of Moses and devaluing God’s grace. Paul writes the
Galatians an aggressive letter to set them straight on their freedom in
Christ.
Pauline epistles to churches
• Ephesians. Paul outlines doctrines of grace, peace, and salvation, and then
instructs the church to walk in a manner worthy of Jesus Christ.
• Philippians. Even though he’s suffering in prison, Paul finds joy in Christ. He
writes to the church at Philippi urging them to take on a Christlike attitude.
• Colossians. This letter explains to the church at Colossae who they are in Christ.
• 1 Thessalonians. The church of Thessalonica is setting a great example for other
churches, even though they’re being persecuted for their faith. Paul encourages
them to “excel still more.”
• 2 Thessalonians. The affliction just won’t let up on the Thessalonian church, so
Paul coaches them on standing firm until Jesus’ return
Pastoral epistles from Paul
• 1 Timothy. This is Paul’s guide to godliness and sound teaching for
the young pastor Timothy at Ephesus.
• 2 Timothy. Paul’s death is drawing near, and he charges Timothy to
carry on his gospel work.
• Titus. Paul had left Titus at Crete to set up order in the churches there.
Now he writes instructions for leading a counter-cultural church.
• Philemon is a hybrid of the two categories. It’s a message to Philemon,
a leader in the Colossian church, but it’s addressed to the church his
house as well.
Performance Base Task
• TITLE: Reflective Essay
• CHALLENGING QUESTION: How might we encourage ourselves, our
family and friends to live out the virtue of love according to St. Paul in 1
Corinthians 13?
• INSTRUCTIONS:
• You will listen, read and watch 1 Corinthians 13 then reflect on
the importance of love in everything that one does.
• Then you will write an essay in a whole sheet of paper that
promotes the importance of love in all the things that you do.
Performance Base Task
• Prompts Questions:
• Why Is Love So Important?
• How can love be seen in all the things that you do?
• How can you encourage others to do everything
with love?
 Rubric
Category 4 3 2 1 Weight Total
Multiplie Points
r
A. Response to Written response addresses Written response addresses Response to writing prompts Response lacks any x3 12
Essay Question the two essay questions at least one essay writing is unclear or vague and/or comprehension of the essay
Writing Prompts writing prompts clearly and prompts clearly and directly. addresses only one writing question or appears to address
directly. prompt in a clear, direct a different essay question.
manner. No essay response provided.

B. Quality and Response indicates depth and Response indicates Response lacks focus or Response is unfocused, x3 12
Clarity of complexity of thought in simplistic or repetitive demonstrates confused or illogical or incoherent.
Thought answering the essay question. thoughts in answering the conflicting thinking. No essay response provided.
essay question.

C. Organization Response is well organized
& Development and developed with
of Ideas appropriate support to make
meaning clear (well-chosen
examples).
Response is organized and Response is fairly organized Response is disorganized and x2 8
developed with general and developed, presenting underdeveloped, providing little
supporting ideas provided generalizations without or no relevant support.
(reasons/general adequate support. No essay response provided.
examples).

D. Grammar, Response is free from any Response has 3 or less Response has 4-5 errors Response has 6 or more x2 8
Usage, and errors in grammar, usage, errors in grammar, in grammar, usage, and errors in grammar, usage,
Mechanics and mechanics. usage, and mechanics. mechanics. and mechanics.
No essay response provided.

Total Score: ____/ 40

1 Corinthians 13 The Gift of Love
New Revised Standard Version Catholic

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging
cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all
faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions,
and if I hand over my body so that I may boast,[a] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its
own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. It
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for
knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the
complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a
child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now, we see in a
mirror, dimly,[b] but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as
I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is
love.
 God of Love,
Your son, Jesus, is your greatest gift to us.
He is a sign of your love.
Help us remain in your love as we go
through our daily routine.
We pray in the name of Jesus, our Savior.
Amen.