Leaders for Life and Love
St. Gianna Molla, pray for us!
Leaders for Life and Love is a club for 7th and 8th grade that fits perfectly with our school them for the year, Respect for all Life and all Persons. Please join us! Read more below.
President: Joselyn Schlinkman-Minnucci
Vice President: Raymond Brandon
The Spiritual Adoption schedule for 2018 is below. Club members, please help each other remember to do this on time. Make sure to put the spiritual adoption cards for that month in the teacher and staff mailboxes. The teachers get a half sheet letter with their cards. 5th grade needs to be divided into 2 sets of 20. 7th grade also needs to be divided, with 23 for Mr. Geraghty's class and 22 for Mrs. Qawasmy's class:
- January 15th (or a few days early): James Glatthorn
- February 15th (or a few days early): Joselyn Schlinkman-Minnucci
- March 15th (or a few days early): Raymond Brandon
- April 13th or a few days early (the 15th is a Sunday): Kathryn Brennan
- May 15th (or a few days early): Kenneth White
- June 13th or a few days early (the 15th is the last day of school): Rebecca Wallgren
Schedule Spring 2018
Julia could suggest sponsoring a dress-down day for a pro-life organization (Legacy of Life Foundation) at student council.
1/3/18: No club--1st day back
1/10: Julia, Alyssa, Abby, Ray
Newspaper contributions brainstorming and drafts. Don't forget to make it appropriate for the little kids! Ideas so far:
Article about Leaders for Life and Love Club
Ways to Be a Leader for Life and Love
Report on last year’s fundraiser and advertise for this year’s
How to influence others to be more joyful and loving
How to show our faith and generosity to others
Showing respect for people and things
Acrostic for life and love
1/17: Finish drafts and submit to Mr. Kane
1/24: Newspaper contributions editing and designing artwork to go with it----re-submit corrected version to Mr. Kane
1/31: No club--Catholic Schools Week
2/7: Make and hang posters about loving one another for Valentine’s Day (Sarah and Abby)
2/14: (Julia and Alyssa) Make a greeting card for a couple you think of as a great example of married love—parents or grandparents, an aunt and uncle, a couple from the neighborhood, or the parents of a close friend. After the cards are decorated, write in each a brief note expressing why you admire the couple’s relationship. Give it to them today for Valentine’s Day!
2/21: (Katie and Jim) Baby bottle fundraiser / diaper drive planning -- no more than twice per year
You should ask for enough bottles so there are 3 bottles for each classroom.
http://www.legacyoflifefoundation.org/bottle-drive/ This is information about how to do the bottle fundraiser.
http://www.legacyoflifefoundation.org/contact/ From this page you can send a message explaining what you want to do and to set up the bottle delivery and pick up. Whoever puts their email address here needs to make sure they check for a reply and send any other emails to get everything set up.
http://dcpcchester.org/ This is where a parent or teacher could donate diapers if you collect them.
2/28: (Kenny and Alyssa) Designing a club shirt and selling it to club members OR designing a shirt that promotes life and love and selling it to club members and others (must be school-appropriate). You will need to take your design and ideas to a parent or teacher to help you with taking orders and money and getting the shirts made.
3/7: (Joselyn and Julia) Prayer--sung Chaplet of Divine Mercy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYtxixBnVGg
The Chaplet of The Divine Mercy:
1. Begin with the Sign of the Cross, 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary and The Apostles Creed.
2. Then on the Our Father Beads say the following:
Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son,
Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
3. On the 10 Hail Mary Beads say the following:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
(Repeat step 2 and 3 for all five decades).
4. Conclude with (three times):
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
3/14: No meeting (high school visitation and Middle States)
3/21: No meeting (testing)
3/28: No meeting (noon dismissal)
4/4: (Katie and Jim) Baby bottle fundraiser / diaper drive implementation (distributing bottles/boxes, hanging signs, etc)
4/11: No meeting (noon dismissal)
4/18: (Sarah and Ray) * Read 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 aloud here. Then write and decorate a modern version of St. Paul’s “Love is…” advice, not just for married couples but for all Christians. Brainstorm together as a class, then make your own to decorate and hang up at home to remind you who you are striving to be!
4/25: (Julia Ray Alyssa) Do internet searches and prepare reports/posters on married individuals or couples who have been beatified or canonized as saints. Here is a list of names to research: St. Margaret of Scotland and King Malcolm; St. Isidore the Farmer and St. Maria de la Cabeza; St. Louis and St. Zelie Martin; and Blessed Luigi Quattrocchi and Blessed Maria Corsini. Focus your reports on how couples lived out their vocations to serve God and others. This could also be submitted to the newspaper.
5/2: (Abby and Jim) 2 videos and discussion questions. Please do not watch any other videos that may start playing when these finish. I did not check those ones for you.
Video: comparing this marriage with what the culture tells us (unselfishness, holiness, working things out) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbhDCmzX4mw
Discussion questions here
Video: beautiful picture of marriage and family, how we don’t become happy by seeking ourselves but by living God’s way and finding ways to love selflessly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whr_CnaBInA&list=PLeXS0cAkuTPrwZjMMFNNMU5oGGf587iVe&index=16
Discussion questions above
5/9: (Sarah and Julia) Current events discussions. Please stick to these three articles, no others.
Discussion questions here
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/31/actress-judy-garland-was-almost-a-victim-of-abortion-heres-how/
Discussion questions above
Discussion questions above
5/16: (Sarah and Abby and Alyssa) Works of mercy for the elderly--making cards to give to Mrs. Eubanks to give to the parish office to bring to shut ins who receive Communion
5/23: (Katie and Abby) End of the year celebration, brainstorming ideas for next year, trying to find a teacher to help next year
No more meetings (testing and noon dismissals)
What we were up to Fall 2017:
9/13/17: Prepared spiritual adoption prayer cards for each student in the school to pray for the safety of an unborn baby for 9 months (Sept. 15th to June 15th).
9/20/17: Watching videos in response to our questions for a married couple from last year.
9/27/17: Learning why we believe ALL life is valuable, and how to talk to someone about that
10/4/17: Watching the first half of the movie Courageous and discussing it. This is a wonderful movie about building strong families.
10/11/17: Watching the second half of the movie Courageous and discussing it.
10/18/17: Walking to the chapel to pray the rosary for those whose lives are threatened, those who are not loved, and those who fail to love and respect all life. If someone would like to bring chalk, we can also write chalk messages in the schoolyard to promote life and love!
10/25/17: Lesson one of unit study on marriage.
11/1/17: Lesson two of unit study on marriage.
11/8/17: Lesson three of unit study on marriage.
11/15/17: Lesson four of unit study on marriage.
11/22/17: NO CLUB MEETING---NOON DISMISSAL
11/29/17: St. Gianna, our patron saint
12/6/17: Making Christmas cards for the elderly (see next week)!
12/13/17: Christmas caroling field trip at Conner Williams Nursing Home--we will deliver our cards as well. Permission form required. We will be back at 4:15 pm.
12/20/17: Last meeting of the year! Christmas party and unfinished business.
Leaders for Life and Love will begin on Wednesday, September 13th--Please bring your completed permission form! Meetings will be on Wednesdays after that after school until 4 pm.