Emmanuel

Unit 3 · The Promise: A branch for Advent that plants Isaiah 11, which comes back in May at confirmation.

Session A · the reading

About 55 minutes. Open and read aloud before any framing: no introduction, no “today we’re looking at”. Scripture first, then the Father.

Isaiah 7:10–16; Isaiah 9:1–7
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 100: the new Eve, earlier than Irenaeus

Session B · the argument

About 35 minutes, on another day. Never both in one sitting.

Unanswerable. Why a woman’s offspring, and not a warrior, to crush the serpent?

Video. Luke 1–2

The Tile Board

Add a card: The child called Emmanuel, with the passage and today’s date. Pencil a line to another card only if the child sees one.

Books this week

Optional: one piece of media

A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965). Watched together, with nothing said about why it was chosen; how the list was made.

Justin makes the same move as Irenaeus a generation earlier. That is all the child needs to notice.

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