Last week the 7th graders led us through the Glorious mysteries of the rosary. They not only did a wonderful job they added two prayers at the end of the rosary that we don't usually pray after a rosary. The reason for these two prayers is because of a request from our Holy Father. This year for this Marian month of October, focused especially on the rosary, Pope Francis asked all the faithful to pray the rosary every day this month. He also asked that the Sub Tuum Praesidium (Beneath Your Protection) and the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel be recited at the conclusion to help protect the Church from the devil, who always seeks to separate us from God and from each other. Pope Francis knows much about radical community care and how our joined prayers will help the whole world, to ask this of all of us. May we be inspired by his radical care for all people and offer a rosary daily for this intention.
Our 7th grader today comes up with many ways to radically help others. I chose Alex's essay this week because one of these ways was to donate money to those in need. Go Fund Me is a way to help those in need and Alex's essay was timely to the needs of the Tucker family as they mourn the loss of their dear loved one, Uri Ramos. A GoFundMe account has been set up to help pay for funeral expenses. Thank you for all your prayers and help for the Tuckers.
Radical Community Care
by Alex B.
Radical community care is taking care of the community in an extreme way. One way we could extremely help the community is by getting a group together to go to a place where they serve food to the homeless. Another extreme way to help is by getting a lot of people to do community charity events.
We need to do radical community care because by just doing one small thing we still help, but if we do an extreme thing we help a lot more and make a bigger impact. Another way we can make a big and radical community change is to help donate a lot of money to people that really need it. The last radical way we could make a change is by helping animals and animal shelters.
Our 7th grade faith reflection was Eucharistic in nature last week. In the city of Bordeaux, France there is a museum dedicated to what this region is most noted for - wine. The Cite du Vin museum building is a most unusual design meant to reflect the many things that come together in the making of wine. For us as Catholics wine, along with bread, is a most necessary part of Mass as these humble ingredients will become the Body and Blood or our Lord Jesus Christ. You can Google what the architects had in mind when designing this building but here is what the 7th graders saw: "It looks like a wine cup. Also it represents the universe, just like the Blood of Christ is throughout the universe."; "The 'swirling' factor of the building may symbolize God's love and how it is undeniably visible within its environment."; "The building is whirly like life, but we know that God will help us through the adventure." And if after all those thoughtful reflections you still find the building a bit too odd, not to worry, some of the 7th graders did also - "The building looks really cool. The way they designed it is weird, but cool."
Cinema for the Soul Will be on Thursday, October 18, 2018 in the basement of the Olive location. This month come see a family struggle with having normalcy for their brilliant child prodigy. Gifted is a movie showing the back and forth battle between the uncle raising his gifted niece and his mother who is still grieving the loss of her daughter, the mother of the child prodigy. Will love and family or brilliance turn out to be the most important thing in the end? Come at 7:00 to find out.
Thank you. Mrs. Alhadef