Sept. 30, 2012: We Belong to the Church

     Hello all,
     I apologize once more for not being able to update the blog last week, the following is the entry for the class held on September 30, 2012.

Together we make up the Church, just like these links make a chain.

     Each child was given a strip of construction paper to make a link. This link represented them. One by one we added the links together. We had asked them what they noticed as we put our paper chain together. The natural answer they gave was it got bigger, a great answer. We proceeded to tell them that the more people we would add, the larger the chain would get. The chin represented the Church, the people make up the church. We talked about how the Church is a family that we all enter with the sacrament of Baptism.

     We covered Baptism by reading and completing the activities on pages 194-196 of the We Believe textbook.

     The highlight of this class was getting to tour our church. We started by learning that the church has holy water and we bless ourselves with the water by making the "Sign of the Cross" when we enter. We learned that the church is a very special place, and at the front is a place where the body of Christ is stored and it is called the Tabernacle. We also know that before we go on the alter we have to bow as a sign of respect to Jesus. We went up on the alter to get a good look at the baptismal font. 

     While we were in the church, we thought it was a good place to learn our next prayer. All the children learned how to genuflect and that the name for the benches is church are called Pews. We knelt as we learned how to pray the "Glory Be".

Yours in Christ,

     Jason & Laura Madrigal