Choose one of the following activities as a way to further reflect on the Sunday readings:

• Discuss what radical obedience might mean. What does obedience require? How can one be radical in practicing obedience? Then have each person relate how he/she might specifically practice obedience in a radical manner.
• Sirach lived in a culture that did not support his religious values. Do your family members feel supported in religious values by today’s culture? How or how not? What is the solution? How can values be upheld when the culture opposes them? How does the domestic Church, or family, support its members? Make a plan for supporting each other in times of opposition to the culture.