St. Sergius School
Lessons & Resources
Explore the permanent lesson library of St. Sergius of Radonezh Orthodox Christian School. Each lesson brings together Orthodox Christian teaching, Scripture, worship, prayer, saints, icons, and practical formation for children approximately ages 4–14.
Lessons are published here as they become available. For the current school-year sequence and teaching dates, see the 2026–2027 Curriculum.
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St. Sergius School
St. Sergius School lessons are designed for use in parish classrooms, small groups, and family settings. The resources below provide practical guidance for preparing, adapting, and teaching SSS lessons while preserving their essential Orthodox teaching.
Teaching Roadmap
Conducting an SSS Lesson
A simple six-stage guide to preparing, teaching, adapting, and concluding an SSS lesson. Designed for instructors, parish schools, small groups, and families.
Includes guidance for prayer, lesson flow, activities, mixed-age groups, closing review, and post-lesson reflection.
Lesson Library
Browse the school’s published lessons below. Each lesson opens to its permanent lesson page with the complete lesson packet, course work, activities, teacher resources, presentation materials, and available optional resources.
Saint / Annual Companion
St. Sergius of Radonezh
St. Sergius of Radonezh in monastic robes.
St. Sergius of Radonezh shows how holiness grows through prayer, humility, obedience, faithful work, and service. His life encourages students to persevere in learning and to see Christian leadership as service.
Liturgical Life / Core Support
How Orthodox Christians Celebrate a Feast
A feast as worship, Scripture, icon, hymnody, fasting, remembrance, and participation in the life of the Church.
An Orthodox feast is more than a special date on the calendar: it is a holy celebration in which the Church remembers God’s saving work and participates in the life of Christ. Students learn the pattern PREPARE → GATHER → CELEBRATE → CARRY through prayer, fasting, Scripture, hymnody, icons, worship, and Christian life.
Saint / Annual Companion
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke
St. Luke as apostle, evangelist, physician, witness, and servant of the early Church.
St. Luke shows how God-given gifts can become faithful service to Christ. Students meet him as an Apostle, companion of St. Paul, physician, Evangelist, and servant of the early Church, while learning to distinguish what Scripture states directly from what the Church receives through tradition.
Great Feast / Required Anchor
Elevation of the Precious & Life-Giving Cross
The Cross as victory, salvation, love, and Christian discipleship.
The Cross, once an instrument of death, became through Christ a sign of salvation, love, and victory over death. We learn to honour the Cross and follow Christ faithfully.
Feast / Annual Companion
Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos
Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, Novgorod icon, 1399.
The Feast of the Protection teaches that the Most Holy Theotokos prays for Christ's Church and always directs us toward her Son. Students learn the meaning of her protecting veil, Christian intercession, and the difference between honouring the Mother of God and worshipping God alone.
Scripture / Core Support
Holy Scripture in the Life of the Church
How Scripture is proclaimed, prayed, preserved, and interpreted within the Orthodox Church.
Holy Scripture lives in the Church: it is proclaimed in worship, prayed in the Psalter and other services, preserved within Holy Tradition, and interpreted under the guidance of the Holy Spirit through the witness of the Holy Fathers and Saints. Students learn that personal Bible reading is encouraged, while private interpretation is not.
Saint / Annual Companion
Great Martyr Demetrius — What Is a Martyr?
Faithful Christian witness, courage, love, and hope in the Resurrection.
Students meet the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica and St. Stephen the Protomartyr, exploring how Christian courage means faithful witness, forgiveness, love, and hope in Christ's Resurrection.