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• Identify the different stages of the formation of the

Sacred Scripture and basic division and subdivision.
• Explain that God can reveal Himself in the different
tasks of –adolescents - more mature relationships in
friendship, role in society, changes in the body and
appropriate management, responsible actions with
kapwa and society, responsible decisions, and moral
and spiritual transformation.
• Formulate a reflection on the connection of the
adolescence stage to the passage Acts 17:28
• To identify the different stages of the
formation of the Sacred Scripture and its
basic division and subdivision.
• To love following the example of God
through the Son in the Spirit.
• To point out the use of the Scripture in
the sacraments
• God loves and cares for His people.
• The Sacred Scriptures is about the
covenant between God and His
people.
• The Sacred Scriptures goes through
different stages before its present
form.
Psalm 136
A. LOVE ALL AROUND!
Write inside the heart three people who love you.
A. LOVE ALL AROUND!

1. How do they show

their love for you?
A. LOVE ALL AROUND!

2. Is it right to hurt them?

Why or why not?
A. LOVE ALL AROUND!
3. What if they turn to be not
so good to you? Will you still
treat them right?
A. LOVE ALL AROUND!

4. Will you still be kind

and understanding to
them? Why or why not?
B. HELPING OUT
Some people are sometimes unkind and
unloving. Yet, we believe that there is goodness in
them. Give three ways on how we can encourage
them to be loving, caring, kind, and
understanding.
People live and continue to live in spite of
pain and suffering because of love in their
hearts. But love is often associated with
promise – promise which some believe as
“meant to be broken.”
In effect, people sometimes are afraid to love.
The Lord has provided us to the example of
what true love means in spite of broken
promises – a love that never stops until the
beloved falls in love as well.
LUKE 23:33-43
 Jesus embrace all the excruciating
physical pain of being nail and hung,
and unbearable pain of mockery by the
people whom He loved.
 Instead of anger and
hatred, He asked the
Father to forgive them.
Love reigned in His heart. This love
He shares is the love from the
Father, wanting that all might share
in His Kingdom.
 It is the greatest love story of all time in the
history of mankind. Now, we have the
opportunity to look back on it anytime,
reflect through the Sacred Scripture, and fall
in love with our Lover every day.
 How do the Sacred
Scriptures develop to
its present form?
 Human experience
refers to the encounter
of the people with God.
 Oral Stage
refers to the times people conveyed
by heart their religious experience of
God through word of mouth from one
generation to another.
 Written Stage
from oral tradition, these collections of
thoughts and understandings were
recorded by various authors and formed
into separate writings or books.
 Human
Experience
Oral Stage
Written Stage
 How is the Sacred
Scriptures divided?
Old Testament
New Testament
 Old Testament
Narrates the story between God
and His people before Jesus
Christ.
 Old Testament
It provides narration of the beginning of the world; the
first sin of Adam and Eve; the murder of Abel by his
brother Cain; Noah; the patriarchs Abraham, Moses,
Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph; kings like Saul, David, and
Solomon; and the prophets and wise men who guided
the leaders and the chose people of God.
 New Testament
focuses especially on the new covenant
between God and the people established
by Jesus Christ. Jesus referred to this
new covenant at the Last Supper.
 New Testament
“This is my blood of the new
covenant, which is being shed for
many.” (Mark 14:24)
Jesus is the Promise of the Father in His
plan of salvation. This plan reveals the
unconditional love of the Father to His
people and finds its final expression in
His Son’s Paschal Mystery.
 Jesus was not alone. He called men who
became His disciples. These men journeyed
with Him, learned from Him, studied His
teachings, and became themselves witnesses
of the Gospel. Through them, the Gospel is
made known and the Church continues to
grow in the Spirit of God.
The apostles become the foundation
of the Church. Guided by the Holy
Spirit, they continue the mission of
Christ, spreading the Gospel through
their words and deeds.
How many books are
there in the Old and
New Testaments?
 46 books in the Old Testament
and 27 books/letters in the New
Testament.
The Hebrew Bible (Hebrew Scriptures, Old
Testament, or Tanakh), is a collection of
writings that was first compiled and
preserved as the sacred books of the
Jewish people.
The books considered inspired by
the Jewish people in the Hebrew
Bible are called protocanonical
books.
 The books that are in the Old
Testament of the Catholic Bible
which were not originally in the
Hebrew Bible are called
deuterocanonical books.
Deuterocanonical books are part
of the (Greek) Septuagint or LXX,
the Scripture of the early
Christians.
Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon,
Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2
Maccabees; and some chapters
in the books of Esther and Daniel.
What are the books in
the Old Testament?
 Pentateuch is also known as the
Five Books of Moses. In Judaism it
is call Torah. In Hebrew means “to
guide/teach.”
Pentateuch books are Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
and Deuteronomy.
 Historical books deal with the life and
experiences of the Israelites. These
books narrate the life of the Israel as a
nation from the possession, exiles, and
loss of the land because of their
unfaithfulness and disobedience to God.
 Historical books include Joshua,
Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2
Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and
Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, and 1
and 2 Maccabess.
 Wisdom books are written by different
people in order to deal with their
concerns and problems in life. It answers
also some basic questions they had in
mind such as the origin of life, search for
happiness, or human conduct.
 Wisdom books are Job, Psalms,
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of
Songs, the Wisdom of Solomon, and
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus).
 Prophetic books are the books
written by the prophets. Prophets
were chosen by God to speak to the
people on His behalf.
 Prophetic books are Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel,
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah,
Nahum, Habakuk, Zephaniah, Haggai,
Zachariah, and Malchi
What are the contents
of the Old Testament?
1. The story of man’s need for
salvation.
2. The story of God’s initiative in
bringing all to salvation.
What are the books in
the New Testament?
New Testament can be classified into
Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Letters
of Paul/Pauline Letters, Catholic
Epistles, and Revelations.
 GOSPELS are the apostolic
witness to, and interpretation of
the words and deeds of Jesus
Christ.
 ACTS OF THE APOSTLES contains an
account of the missionary activity
and growth of the early Church. Also
contains the missionary journeys of
St. Paul. This was written by St. Luke
EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL were written either
by Paul himself or by his disciples to
some of the early Christian Churches or
individuals in response to some
particular problem or situation.
 EPISTLES/LETTERS OF ST. PAUL are as
follows: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians,
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians,
Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and
2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and the Letter
to the Hebrews.
 CATHOLIC EPISTLES are called by this
names because the apostles who wrote
these were not sent to any particular
community and their message was more
universal.
LETTERS are James, 1 and 2 Peter,
1, 2, and 3 John, and Jude.
 APOCALYPSE/REVELATION records the
ultimate victory of the Kingdom of God.
It is also written to console the early
Christians at a time of persecution. This
was written by St. John.
 Why is the New
Testament Important?
 New Testament contains the fullness of
God’s revelation that was brought to us
by Jesus Christ. It records the person and
mission of God the Son sent by God the
Father in the Holy Spirit.
What does the Sacred
Scriptures reveal to
us?
Sacred Scriptures shows the
great love of the Father to all
through His Son in the Spirit.
In the beginning, before God created
man and woman, He wonderfully
prepared the world as a place where
they could enjoy His goodness.
*Genesis 1:29-31, Genesis 1:27
 Tempted by a serpent, the gifts of
wonderful world and precious identity
were forgotten. Sins entered into the
world and the consequence had to be
borne, now by the whole humanity.
God never ceases to bring them the hope
of salvation. He chose Abraham to lead
His chosen people and his descendants
Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph who made them
a great nation.
History turned unfavorable to the chosen
people of God. They became slaves and
were treated rudely under a new king
who knew nothing of Joseph.
*Exodus 1:9-10
 God created for His people and He
heard their cry. He sent Moses in the
midst of them
*Exodus 3:7-8
God continued to guide and protect His people
through the different persons who became
kings. They were Saul, David, and Solomon.
Along with them were the prophets who
continuously reminded them of their covenant
with Him, calling them to repentance.
 God sent also judges to bring
justice to those who were
oppressed by crooked rulers and
invaders.
God’s love is now ever more revealed
in the coming of His Son Jesus, the
Promise, the Messiah. He spoke not
anymore through any men and
women but in His only Begotten Son.
 God has given the people the gift to
see Him, to with Him, to live, eat, walk,
suffer, die, and resurrect with Him.
This express what He wants for His
people – a share in His kingdom.
The Sacred Scriptures serve as the
source of the three dimensions of
faith.
• Doctrinally, Morally, and in
Worship
Doctrinally it allows us to understand
the basic truths of our faith about
God, Church, our identity, life, world,
and life after death.
Morally gives us the Ten Commandments,
Beatitudes, and other teachings and
examples of individuals that help direct
our thoughts, words, and actions in the
Will of God.
In Worship, our prayers and celebration of the
sacraments draw directly on the Jewish
practice service in the synagogue which is the
reading of God’s Word, of Passover Feast
commemorating their deliverance out of
Egypt, and of Christ instituting the sacraments.
A. DATE WITH GOD
Look for a partner. Both of you shall recall your own religious
experience. Alternately, you will share it and write the sharing of the
other in your notebook. You may add personal reflection/realization
based on the sharing.

Recall Share/Listen Write

B. GOD’S LOVE
Look for two stories in the Bible that show
concretely God’s love for us – one from the Old
Testament and the other from the New Testament.
Give the account (book, chapter, and verse) and
the summary in not more than 10 sentences.
• God loves and cares for His people.
• The Sacred Scriptures is about the
covenant between God and His
people.
• The Sacred Scriptures goes through
different stages before its present
form.
Sacred Heart of Jesus
It is good to let others know how much
we appreciate their good deeds and their
acts of love. Identify three persons: at
home, one in school, and one in the
community.
Write artistically the word “Thank You.” Below, write the
name and good act he/she did to you. Give it to him/her.
You may write a short message at the back if you like.
 “He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our
Lord prefers to wait Himself for the
sinner for years rather than keep us
waiting an instant.”
– St. Maria Goretti
 JOURNAL WRITING #3
What is the significance of the
Bible to my life? How will I share
the Word of God to my family, to
my school, and to my community?