Love Thy Neighbor

In honor of the Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed, our first November meeting began with a coloring page of Our Lady of the Brown Scapular and the poor souls in purgatory. 

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord

and let perpetual light shine upon them.

May the souls of the faithful departed,
through the Mercy of God,

rest in peace.

Amen.

After a quick review of two virtues we've been practicing since the beginning of this school year, we discussed our next virtue: 
Love of Neighbor. 
The story of The Good Samaritan was a perfect way to reinforce this virtue as we talked about who our neighbor is and what we can do to show God's love to all those around us.

After listening to the Bible story, one of our Mom's showed the girls how to tie the edges of fleece blankets so that we can add some beautiful blankets to all the other things that we collected for the Christ Child Society Layette Program.  What a beautiful way to reach out to our neighbors!  And the girls just loved it.  They went right to work and by the end of our meeting, they had tied off 10 blankets!





With our blankets competed, we had just enough time for...

The Good Samaritan Game!

What a blast!  Half of the girls were "good samaritans" who had to help out a neighbor in need (the other half of the girls).  After coming upon a "hurt" neighbor, the samaritans gave the friend a drink of water, placed a bandage on a "wound" and helped the hurt girl to the "inn".  What a hoot!  We had bandages on arms, legs, noses and foreheads.  Some of the girls even carried each other to the "inn"!  Such fun!



Then we squeezed in our treat...with only minutes to spare!  Sometimes an hour is just not enough time.

Mrs. A wowed us again with cookies to go with our Good Samaritan theme...

band-aids!



No...they didn't stick!

What a great meeting and what a great way to learn about loving our neighbor!

Keep planting seeds...