Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday.

It is the first day of Lent.

Lent will last for 40 days (and 6 Sundays) and will finish with Easter.

Some of us will give up things we like for Lent, or we will try and be nice to others.

We got ashes on our foreheads today to remind ourselves that we have come from dust and ashes and that when we die we will become dust and ashes again.

We are alive now.

Now is the time to live like good Christians and to love God and love others.

We will try to be nice to each other, especially this Lent.

We also wear the ashes so other people will know that we are trying to be good followers of Christ.

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Lent

Our visit to Renmore Church

We went over to our local church today to visit this special place.

Our church is called St.Oliver Plunkett's Church, Renmore, after a famous Irish saint.

We looked all around the church and teacher explained what each thing in the church is for.

We also had fun at school with these two interesting websites.

These websites helped us learn all about the church before our visit.

St. Brigid brings the Spring

We learned all about St. Brigid and how she was so good and kind to the poor. She wanted some land to build a church, so that the people would have somewhere to go to, to talk to God. She approached the Chieftian to ask him for some land to build a church on, but he was rather mean (he had never heard about the love of God) and he decided to play a trick on poor St. Brigid. He said that he would give her the amount of land that her cloak would cover. St. Brigid placed her cloak on the ground and at first it didn't cover much land at all!!! The Chieftian began to laugh and laugh. Poor St. Brigid didn't know what to do and her heart sank. Then suddenly something miraculous began to happen - her cloak began to spread out and grow and grow!!!. Now it was Brigid's turn to laugh!!. The Chieftian went as white as a ghost and begged her to shout 'stop.' She did, but only when she had plenty of land to build the church on. 

We learned a lovely song about this story and we also made up our own poem about the story. We made a St. Brigid's cross using 4 strips of paper and we filled in her cloak using coloured paper to create a patchwork effect. 

St. Brigid's Day

St. Brigid's Day is on Saturday, February 1st.

We heard a wonderful story about how St. Brigid got land from a chieftain on which to build her church.

The chieftain told Brigid that she could have as much land as her cloak would cover.

Brigid's cloak grew and grew and covered enough land on which to build a church.

Here is our version of St. Brigid's cloak. 

Sr. Breda's visit

 We had a lovely visit from Sr. Breda on Friday.

We chatted about the Christmas story and we sang lots of nice Religion songs.

 We even had a night off homework which was great!

Catholic Schools Week

26th January - 2nd February 2014