Happy Monday and Feast of St. Charles Borromeo!
I didn't have time to blog about Friday's class over the weekend. Basically we finished up Baptism and to celebrate All Saints Day, I put together a game of "Saint Jeopardy!" Knowing my students have a very basic understanding of the saints, I made the questions very basic...at least I thought they would be...I only went with questions that I thought they could answer and on popular saints- Patrick, Michael the Archangel, Mary the Mother of God, St. Jude, St. Anthony, St. Valentine, etc. It was brutal. I had to give a lot of clues just to get a score on the board.
So, that gave me an idea. Every day I will take a few minutes to tell a story of a saint- "Saint of the Day!" They will be confirmed in May and for all I know, this could be their last formal time of receiving any kind of teaching on the Catholic faith. So, they will be learning about a lot of saints over the next 6 weeks! It's so important that they know who these heroes are and how much they want us to strive for sainthood too!
Today's focus was on the Eucharist aka the source and summit of our faith!!! We focused on what the sacrament is, the symbols, and the importance of it. Tomorrow we will focus on the mass and continue why the Eucharist is SO important!
Then we reflected on yesterday's Gospel reading- how Zacchaeus wanted to see Christ but not seen by Christ, how He had a change of heart when He experienced Christ's love and mercy, how we too can have an experience like that when we received the Eucharist, any of the sacraments!
Last, saint story on St. Charles Borromeo.
We never really know what's going on in the minds and hearts of the people we are surrounded by or in my case, the students I am teaching. Please continue to pray for my past, present, and future students, and one for me!
St. Paul, pray for us!
Holy Spirit, inspire us!
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