Look Up This Lent
Discover Your Neighbor (DYN) offers unique materials and lessons to inspire young people to engage on issues like Global Solidarity so that they can live out their faith as agents of love and service.
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Designed specifically for globally-minded educators who want to guide their students toward making a difference in their world!
2025 Lesson Plan
(Volume 8, No.3)
Global Solidarity
Look Up This Lent
Objective
OBJECTIVE: During the Jubilee Year, students will use…
Step 1: Pray
Beyond the distractions and clicks God is waiting for…
Step 2: Personal Connections
As is customary in Bolivia, the main meal begins with…
Global Solidarity
Look Up This Lent
OBJECTIVE: During the Jubilee Year, students will use the Church’s Lenten practices of Prayer, Charity, and Fasting as ways to become Pilgrims of Hope by engaging in global solidarity.
They will COMPARE their lives with the lives of teens in Bolivia based on the story that they will read.
They and their families will PLAN “Look Up” events to focus on the needs of others.
Classroom Activities
Prayer & Reflection
Make Personal Connections
Faith Perspectives
Neighbor Focus
Exploring Scripture & Traditions
Lessons on How To Take Action
An interactive education program for teachers sponsored by the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
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DYN lesson plans use global issues to examine those on the margins of society, explores how we think and feel, and guides how youth can act to share God’s love with those in need.
CARE FOR CREATION
FALL / ORDINARY TIME
Pope Francis challenges us to change the “throwaway culture” we live in – what are we called to do in response to the Pope’s challenge?
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MIGRATION
ADVENT
Journey with migrants throughout our faith tradition and explore our call to love all people in light of global migration.
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Global Solidarity
LENT
Live a faith that values all people by discovering and responding to global needs as Jesus would.
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GO FORTH
EASTER / PENTECOST
Answer the call to encounter the
world as a living sign of God’s love.
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CARE FOR CREATION
MIGRATION
Global Solidarity
GO FORTH
SHARE US ON
Global Solidarity
Look Up This Lent
Get started today with our course program for the 2025/26 school year to foster a mission-centered perspective in youth, and guide your students toward making a difference in their world.