Week 13: Feeding of the 5,000 & Transfiguration

Goals:
1. How does the Feeding of the 5,000 apply to us today?

2. We are going to continue studying the major feast days – Transfiguration.

Notes for the Teacher: Our service of artoklasia today is in commemoration of the miracle of Christ feeding 5,000 with five loaves. We always bring 5 loaves of artos (the bread used for the service of artoklasia). This is an opportunity to make that connection for our children. You can discussion this connection and/or make artos as part of your lesson.

For those looking for the stamps/seals used to make artos – I bought mine many, many years ago from prosphora.org, but the priest has since ceased making them. I have yet to find anywhere else that makes them online. Hopefully, one day we will have some people who learn this craft and make them available to us once again.