UNIT 4 - CH. 16 6th GRADE

______________________ - is humbly and earnestly asking for help. Like Esther, we address prayers of supplication to God.

• Supplication

• Persistence

______________________ - is the act of continually pursuing something in spite of obstacles. Prayer often requires persistence.

• Persistence

• Supplication

God invites us into a relationship of trust and caring. We sustain that relationship through _______________________________.

• faith and prayer

• forgive and forget

• hugs and kisses

• thoughts and words

For seventeen years, _______________________ prayed for her son’s conversion to the Christian faith. Her persistence was rewarded. Augustine, later to be known as Saint Augustine, was baptized in 387.

• Saint Monica

• Saint Rita

• Saint Francis

• Mary Magdalene

During World War II, the Nazis under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, killed more than 12 million people, including 6 million Jews. In Vatican City in Italy, ______________________ worked to save the Jewish people, concealing many Jews in the Vatican and at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer home. He told bishops, priests, and nuns to help the Jewish people whenever they could, and asked that convents and monasteries be opened to Jews.

• Pope Pius XII

• Pope Gregory

• Pope Francis

• Pope Saint John Paul

It is truly right and just… to acclaim our God invisible, the almighty Father.
-Based on the _________ Proclamation (Exsultet), Roman Missal

• Easter

• Christmas

• Valintine

• Thanksgiving

When the king met Esther, he was struck by her kindness and her great beauty. He made her the __________.

• queen

• part of the royal court

• head of agriculture

• maid of honor

At this time, a man named Haman was the highest official in the royal court. Haman was greedy for fame and power. All the king’s servants had to bow down in his presence. _______________ refused. As a Jew, he would not honor a man in the way he would honor the Lord. Haman was angry about this. He vowed to destroy all the Jews in Persia. He wrote a royal order stating, “All Jews, young and old, including women and children, should be killed in one day.”

• Mordecai

• Joseph

• Ezekiel

• Joshua

…”My Lord, you alone are our KING. Help me, who am alone and have no help but you, for I am taking my life in my hand… Put in my mouth persuasive words in the presence of the lion, and turn his heart to hatred for our enemy,... Save us by your power,...”
-_____________ C:14-15, 24-25

• Esther

• Luke

• John

• Exodus

“If I have found favor with you, O king,... I ask that my life be spared, and I beg that you spare the lives of my people. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated.”
-_________ 7:3-4

• Esther

• John

• Luke

• Exodus