We had a wonderful day visiting your school and working with year 6. You all worked really hard to understand Lent and to prepare for Easter and the safe, promises and prayer pocket that you created were all fantastic. The Liturgy that you prepared for the end of the day was great, you all worked really hard on your parts of the liturgy and we were particularly impressed by the liturgical dance and song that you performed – it was fab! Hearing all of your achievements in the Golden Book just showed how talented you all are and we had a lovely day with you so thank you!

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Wow – what a busy day! We did so much today getting through the three themes of Lent that can help us to prepare for Easter (fasting, almsgiving and prayer), playing all those games, making sacrifices, having a photo shoot with our promises and then Mass at the end of the Day.

We loved all the energy that you all brought to the day it made it exciting and a lot of fun.

Mass was amazing – all of the classes worked so hard to prepare so many different things and made it a really great celebration.

Thanks for such a fantastic day!

Reach4

This was a fantastic day which we all really enjoyed. After watching an amazing performance of Cabaret the night before (well done to those of you who performed, it was fantastic and we haven’t stopped singing the songs since!) we had the privilege of joining with some of CTK’s most talented singers and musicians to learn and to perform some liturgical music. It was great to see some familiar faces and to meet some new people so thank you to all those who were involved. Thank you also to those classes who made up our first audiences for us to perform the songs too during the afternoon, you joined in really well and it was great to share that with you. Looking forward to seeing you soon and good luck with your music competition!

Reach4

Tonight was awesome! We had so much fun getting to know all of you. thanks for throwing yourselves into everything and making the night so enjoyable. All of your singing in the karaoke game was very good and showed how lively you all are.

We can’t wait for you all to come to the briars!

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You guys were the first Lent day we led and it definitely was an amazing way to start! You were all full of so much energy and threw yourselves into everything which meant we had a lot of fun and everyone got so much out of the day.

We loved playing all the games with all of you that helped us think about the three ways we can prepare for lent (fasting, prayer and almsgiving)… especially the game with the beanbags!

Well done to everyone for your parts in the Liturgy in the afternoon, it was awesome.

Good luck with all the stuff you gave up and sticking to the promises you made and had all those beautiful photos with.

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Sacred Heart, Carlton kick off the second of our Confirmation programmes in 2010. We’ll be working with the Confirmation group between February and April!

This is the place for you guys to keep up with our blogs on all our sessions with you and take a look at the photos too!

February 25th – Images of God

For our first session together we spent a long time getting to know each other. It was really cool to come and meet you guys and we’re really looking forward to working with you over the next few months (hopefully in a bigger space next time!). After a well deserved break we drew our own Images of God  - it was really interesting to see everyone’s different ideas and it made for a cool night prayer display!

See you all next week….

Today was AMAZING! It was so good to see so many familiar faces and it felt like we were at home and had never left after our mission week in September 2009.

Thanks for all the hard work all of you who we worked with put into the day..you were all awesome!

We had so much fun planning the lent day with the Year 11’s that you will be leading, your ideas were amazing and it looks as if the day will be great for the Year 6’s . You guys are simply amazing!

The chaplaincy training we had with the Year 10s was great and we were well impressed that you all managed to learn so much in such a short space of time, and now you’re all experts!

The liturgy in the afternoon was fantastic and so inspiring to see the Year 10’s and 11’s completely lead it..you all did so well with the different parts you prepared.

Looking forward to seeing you all again!

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Our Lady of Good Counsel in Eastwood kick off the first of our Confirmation programmes in 2010. We’ll be working with the Confirmation group from February right through until their Confirmation on 20th May!

This is the place for you guys to keep up with our blogs on all our sessions with you and take a look at the photos too!

February 6th – Taster Day

Our Taster Day together was wicked! After spending a long time arranging the chairs in alternate colours in the circle, we spent time getting to know each other and looking at what our Confirmation programme was going to entail. After the break we were set a challenge to SAVE THE EGG! The Egg represented our faith; an egg can be really strong, but sometimes it can be very fragile too. Luckily, we all did an eggs-ellent (Ha!) job and we all stayed strong with absolutely no mess whatsoever! Well done for the liturgy you guys put together at the end of the day – it was awesome (especially the funky coloured lights)!

After all the laughs and effort you put in to today we’re very much looking forward to our first session with you…

Hello to everyone we worked with tonight! We didn’t get long to work with you tonight and we managed to get so much done, so well done everyone! The hot seating we did with you was a great chance to get to know you all and the creeds you all wrote were awesome and showed how much effort you put in. We loved the biscuits at break!

Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!

Reach4

This afternoon was so much fun! You all really got involved in the game show we did to think about how the story of Moses applies to us.

We were well impressed with your observation skills and your singing…especially the lovely solo!

It was great to get the chance to talk to you all during the discussion session.

The afternoon went so quickly and we did so much to say we only had a few hours with you all. Thank you to all the sixth formers who helped us…you all were great.

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