Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, 1901–1925
July 4

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati was a young Italian who loved the outdoors, his friends, and having fun. But he also was deeply involved in works of charity. He would give his train money to the poor and then have to run home in time for dinner. Sometimes he even gave his coat to beggars. He lived his whole life following the Great Commandment. When he was only twenty-four, he contracted polio and died. At his funeral, hundreds of people he had helped came to pray. Pope Saint John Paul II called him “a man of the Beatitudes.”

Discuss: What Beatitude do you find the easiest to live?

Activity
The Great Commandment
Verbal/Linguistic

Read the words of the Great Commandment from page 315 in the Student Book.

• Together, define and/or discuss each word or phrase of the Great Commandment.
• Ask your child: How might one live the Great Commandment all the time?
• Each of you should write down a plan for living the Great Commandment in one or more challenging scenarios.
• Share your scenarios with one another.