This Sunday we used the Columban Father's Mission Education program for elementary and middle school students, titled Journey With Jesus, which is an exciting, informative DVD series with related curriculum that will teach your students about Catholic mission today and the call to mission all baptized people share.
Journey With Jesus teaches your students about different cultures, the importance of peace-building, care for the environment, respect for other faiths and understanding and respecting all of God’s people.
Since the month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary we took advantage of lifting our prayers to the mission. If you were looking out your window, like Fr. Gerry you may have seen our Rosary being lifted up to God. That's right, a flying rosary.
Fr. Gerry shared this idea, and it was amazing seeing it in action. We prayed the rosary in the library, a rosary which was made out of balloons. Then after we completed the rosary we took the rosary outstide so we can let our prayers fly to heaven.
Each decade of the World Mission Rosary calls to mind an area
where the Church continues her evangelizing mission:
where the Church continues her evangelizing mission:
WHITE – Symbolizing EUROPE, the seat of the Holy Father, shepherd of the world
YELLOW – The morning light of the east, for ASIA
BLUE – For the ocean surrounding the ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC
GREEN – For the forests and grasslands of AFRICA
RED – Calling to mind the fire of faith that brought missionaries to the AMERICAS
