allsaints

//John Dorrington, Luke Calderaro, Ali Farhat //

//The reason why my group chose the name allsaints is because Luke's first thought was saints and then John said to call it Allsaints. // //Luke Calderaro and John Dorrington. Ali Farhat was absent in this lesson. // //The Laws of Society are you are not allowed to drink or enter a club or bar before you are 18, you are not allowed to have any alcohol in your system when driving when you are on Green P's, Red P's and L's,you are not allowed to smoke or buy cigarettes before you are 18 and finally no urinating or pooing outside of a bathroom. We have laws because we need laws to function properly. //

//If we didn't we would cause mayhem and the world wouldn't be able to function properly.Laws help us to live better and more safely by them being in place so it can stop and render us from doing inappropriate and bad things. If we didn't have laws in society, life would be like hell and people would constantly do bad and horrible things to themselves, the environment and others. //

//Quite simply, to handle disputes, errors, or poor judgment of a given person. In any society, altercations between citizens can break down a healthy structure, so the laws are in place to attempt to guarantee rights to each member. For example, if I want to murder someone, I would decide not to, because of the law ad it's consequences. There are those that do not care either way, and even those that enjoy the consequences, so the system isn't perfect. //

//By John and Luke. //
 * The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV) ||
 * = //1// || //“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. // ||
 * //2 // || //“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments. // ||
 * //3 // || //“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. // ||
 * //4 // || //“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. // ||
 * //5 // || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. // ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">6 // || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“You shall not murder. // ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">7 // || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“You shall not commit adultery. // ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">8 // || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“You shall not steal. // ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">9 // || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. // ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">10 // || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.” r // ||

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Which commandments are about God? List these by number. //
//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The commandments that are about God are 1, 2,3 and 4. John //

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Which commandments are about how we should treat others? List these by number. //
//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The commandments that are about how we should treat others are 5,6,7,9,10. By John and Ali //

===//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Make a list of all the commandments which are stated in the negative (eg "Thou shalt NOT") - for each of these, re-write them as a postive commandment to guide us in how we should live today. //=== //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">You shall not steal- You shall respect others property // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">You shall not murder- You shall respect others and their lifes // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">You shall not commit adultery- You must love your girlfriend and respect your friend's relationship with his girlfriend. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour- You should always be true to yourself // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">You shall not take the lord's name in vain- You shall respect your God's name and praise it. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">You shall not covet your neighbour's house- Respect your neighbour's house and belongings. //

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">Challenge #2 1. Copy and paste these instructions to your team's page.

2. Read "The Beatitudes" as found in Matthew 15: 1 - 12 [|The Beatitudes: Matthew 5: 1 - 12]. Also, read through the two explanations of the Beatitudes found on the wiki's "Beatitudes" page.
 * Discuss what you have read in your team.
 * As a team, construct a list of synonyms for the words "Blessed" and "Happy" - you can make two separate lists, upload a table, or do a word web or mind map - be creative! You can start with what is in your heads, and add to this using an online tool such as[|Synonyms online].

2. Happy = blest, jolly, joyful, laughing, light, merry, peaceful, perky, gay, glad, upbeat, pleasant, playful, overjoyed, ecstatic, gleeful. Blessed = anoint, baptise, confirm, cross, consecrate, thanks, glorify, dedicate, honor, glorify, happiness, holy, benediction, sacrifice, sign. 23 May Ali Farhat was absent. The Beatitudes are a set of teachings are a set of teachings by Jesus that appear in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The term Beatitude comes from the Latin adjective //beatus// which means happy, fortunate, or blissful. The meaning for each Beatitudes are: in god we trust our hearts to inspire the word of the lord Jesus Christ to be honest, worthy and selfless falls into the participation in the word of the lord. Why is it that we trust in god the answer lies inside of you open up your hearts and you will see Gods love waiting for you too see. 3. With this step you have two choices (you must do your own work here...) : The Beatitudes that are shown in this passage are the the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy, the pure in heart: for they shall see God, they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled and the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">Challenge #3 ** IMAGES OF GOOD AND EVIL ** <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 22px; text-align: left;">1. Copy and paste these instructions to your team's page.
 * Read this passage "The Widow's Offering" and __ explain __ in a short paragraph which Beatitudes are illustrated through this passage: [|The parable of the Widow's Offering Mark 1: 41-44] [|Explanation of the parable] (You will receive a C or less on this part of the criteria if you choose this option).
 * OR using your bibles, or searching online, locate a parable or other passage in the New Testament which illustrates one or more of the values from the Beatitudes. Try this as a starting point: [|List of parables] . __Describe__ in your own words which Beatitudes are illustrated in your chosen parable. (for an A or B you must do this option).

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">2. Brainstorm and create a list of synonyms( words with a similiar meaning) for each of the following terms Good
 * Evil
 * Conscience

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">3. Paste onto your team page two media items( movie,link,clip,)... one that portrays good and the other evil.
 * For each media item, EXPLAIN why each item portrays "good" or "evil"
 * Write a 300 word reflection statement on the following: "What is often accepted as "good" in society is not always "good" in Christian life". Refer to an aspect of mainstream society that your conscience tells you might be acceptable for others, but you know in your heart isn't quite right (eg, consumerism, only wanting name brands, casual/binge drinking, damage to the environment, focussing on being "popular", etc...). Each group member should focus on a different aspect of society to reflect on.

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;">4. Find the lyrics to a song or poem that promotes good in society. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-size: 27px; text-align: left;">5. Find a scripture passage that has a positive message that helps shape your life. 2. Good synonyms- satisfactory, great, well done, wonderful, splendid, acceptable, sound, nice, excellent, favorable and exceptional. Bad synonyms- horrible, imperfect, unacceptable, inadequate, dreadful, careless, awful, unsatisfactory, not good, atrocious and sad. Conscience synonyms- censor, demur, compunction, duty, inner, voice, morals, principles, qualms, right, wrong, small, shame, still, voice, superego and scruples. By John Dorrington 3. The good deed in this photo is a woman visits a school in Vietnam that was recently hit by the tsunami and donates school and medical supplies to them. 5. A scripture passage that has a positive message is the Good Samaritan. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Charis SIL',charis,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> 25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” 27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ [ [|a] ] ; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ [ [|b] ] ” 28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.” 29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii [ [|c] ] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’ 36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” 37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.” By John Dorrington and Ali Farhat. CHALLENGE 4 <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">1. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Visit [|The Caritas Homepage] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">a <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">What is Caritas?
 * Embed a hyperlink to that song /lyrics on your team page. (see the wiki "help" section for how to hyperlink.
 * EXPLAIN how that song promotes good. Make sure you quote specific lines from the song and explain those lines.
 * Copy and paste the scripture passage and its bible reference onto your team page.
 * Write about a time in your life when you had a choice whether or not to "do good". Explain how applying this scripture passage to your life may have helped you with that choice (ie, you didn't choose good, but on reflection could have; or you did choose good, what influenced you?)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">b <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">What are the four aims of their programs?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">c <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">How are these four aims connected to the 10 Commandments and the Beatitudes?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">d <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Choose one of the [|Global Issues] on the page (by clicking the link). <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Each group member must focus on a different issue here, and complete your own responses. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">For the issue you choose, write about the following:

Why is this an important issue?
===What have you learnt about your faith in recent weeks that might lead you to take an interest in this topic?===

Describe what YOU could do to help out in this area - beyond giving a donation
===Write a short diary entry about this issue (5 - 6 sentences) from the perspective of a person who does **__not__** have a faith background and who does __**not**__ believe we are responsible for helping others in our world.===

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">2. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Visit Oxfam ** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">( <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">stands for <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> 'Oxford Committee for Famine Relief' ) **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> via the link below and put yourself in the shoes of a sweatshop worker by either reading a 24 year old worker's blog OR watching Lulu's Story OR playing the Sweatshop Game OR by just choosing your own adventure.. check it out, there's so much to see and do!! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">[|Oxfam Australia]

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**3.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Go to your wardrobe and choose <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">10 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> items of clothing/ shoes/ accessories and check the tags for the following-

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">** a What is the** **brand?** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**b** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> **Origin of fabric?** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**c** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> **Where is the item made?**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Don't be shy! List all data on your team site.. this should be interesting. ==== <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">d **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Make a table on your team page to record your findings. (use the "Table" button when editing your page to insert a table). ** ==== e ** Choose one country where one of your items is made and do a short investigation into how clothing is manufactured in that country. Consider issues such as: **

**age of workers**
==**working conditions (how many days per week do they work? ventilation? lighting? crowded? sick leave? holidays?)**==

**access to family**

 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">f <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">record your findings in dot points o your team page **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">g. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">reflect... does knowing about how YOUR clothes get made make you think differently about what and from which country you'd buy clothing again? **

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**4.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">** a Ask yourself, could one of the** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">[|Sweatshops (check out your fave brands on the left hand side)] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">featured on the Oxfam website have created this garment for you?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">b <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> Do <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">you feel <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">a <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">'change of heart' <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">How do you [|reconcile] your thoughts with your actions?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">c Consider <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">the following- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">From what you've studied and reflected upon, how do <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">you <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> perceive your future decision making regarding ethically made clothing?

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