Stuck In A Holding Pattern

Sunday March 9th was our twenty-second session together.

When we met in the common area for the whole group activity, we learned that only Fair Cheetah, Pragmatic Tiger, and Sweet Pea Elephant were going to be attending today. So I decided not to proceed with our planned lesson until we had more of the children in attendance. We're getting to the really important lessons about the Eucharist now, so I'd rather risk having to have a make-up session, than to have more than half the class miss one of these important topics!

Instead, the four of us reviewed our last lesson, and we remembered

Jesus really is the Son of God

Jesus really did come down to Earth as a man

Jesus really did die for us

Jesus really did rise from the dead

Jesus really will come again

And I tossed in ~ briefly, as a prelude to topics to come ~ that

Jesus really is present in the Eucharist

We decided that some of these are hard to understand and picture in our minds, but that they are part of our Catholic faith so we are going to keep trying.

There happened to be some shamrocks hanging as decorations in the room, so the children asked if they could draw some of their own. So while they colored pictures we continued to have a lively discussion. We talked about how St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity: just as the shamrock has 3 separate leaves, but is still 1 plant, so we have Father, Son, Holy Spirit - 3 persons but 1 God.

Hopefully next week we will be able to begin our travels through Unit 4, Chapter 14, "We Receive the Gift of Jesus".