Religious Education Activities
Gospel Value of the Month
The Beatitudes come alive! Each month during the 2010-2011 school year one of the Beatitudes will be highlighted in individual classrooms and in school wide activities. Teachers will select a student from each class who represents the Beatitude of the month. A certificate of recognition is presented to the student during a school wide Mass.
Eucharistic Adoration
Quiet time before the Lord! On Thursday mornings throughout the year students have the to go to the Parish Chapel for Eucharistic Adoration. Students spend some time in prayer, listening to and thinking about Jesus.
Advent
Remembering our roots! During the school wide mass on the first Friday in Advent, the kindergarten and seventh grade students create a Jesse Tree and tell us about our spiritual ancestors in the Old Testament.
Lent
A time to stop and think about our choices! Mass and the signing with ashes on Ash Wednesday bring awareness of the suffering of Jesus. On Fridays in Lent students gather to pray the Stations of the Cross.
May Crowning
Let us celebrate Jesus’ mother! Students in the First Communion and graduating classes lead the the school in a procession that honors Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Passing of the Torch
The leadership of the student body is symbolically passed onto the seventh grade students by the graduating class during a school wide Mass. A candle, which is a sign of the light that Jesus brought into the world, is passed on so that all the students are aware of the importance of Christian leadership.