Sixth Class - Religion

Take time for prayer.

This week, we are going to change the dynamic of our opening section somewhat. The outline below will be clear, open to personal opinion and in chase of imagination and underlying honesty. Allow yourself time to delve into your mind in search of what and who you truly value and love. Through this act we can each become fruitfully grateful and mindful of what and who we have in our lives, enriching our sense of personal satisfaction and inner-most happiness.

You will be invited to finish the remainder of a number of sentences, each of which holds the initial stem by which you must add words to, warmly revealing your inner most thoughts, wishes and desires. When we are posed with an open-ended task it is demanded that we integrally listen to that inner voice that latches onto our honest and heartfelt belief system.

Here they go - inject your own true feelings, allowing yourself time to think, reflect and portray what and who you wish to remember, admire and submit your love for.

1. I hope that my family...

2. I pray that I....

3. When I think of those in my school community I...

4. When I think of those front line workers I pray....

5. I hope the future.....

6. I pray that soon we will all....

As we venture towards the end of our present school year it is pivotal, as a sixth class level, to strongly retain our connection, voice and relationship with the church. At this time, under ordinary circumstances, June would have consistently featured trips to the church for prayer, practice and remembrance. As this luxury is currently not available we should each take the onus, responsibility and personal time to utilise the different yet unarguably innovative option of the online mass offering. Practice your responses, offer a prayer, remember a loved one, be at peace with your thoughts and eagerly try to capture a message from the sermon.

Give it a go this week and jot down something you took from the mass offering/s you engaged with.

https://www.churchservices.tv/ - Website Link.

Reflection work;

Our reflective practice this week is cast in a new direction. We are going to implement a broad, expansive and summarised outlook to our religious educational journey throughout our time spent within primary level. This requires deep reflection, thought and attention to detail. We each must sit patiently and think mindfully, allowing memories to gracefully surface to the summit of our thoughts. This will evoke feelings of happiness, nostalgia and undoubted gratefulness. The element of gratefulness will be fed by each memory we picture internally, as we fondly smile at times spent with people who cared for us, admired us, sought the best for us and offered us help when it was most needed.

Here we go, picture the following;

1. An assembly whereby a special prayer was offered for someone.

2. A religious lesson whereby some element of the subject matter hit a chord with your inner feelings.

3. A trip to the church that you felt safe, protected and supported with your peers and teachers.

4. The build up to a special day in the religious calendar.

5. A moment when you were asked to say a quiet prayer for someone you love.

Remember – With reflection comes clarity.

Finally, try to finish each day or night this week by saying a silent prayer for your time spent within primary school; for the friends you made, the fun you experienced and the information you learned. Then, say a silent prayer for your next venture into secondary level education; that you may transition without difficulty, be introduced to new people, learn fruitful information and facts, chase your dreams and experience an easy pathway in life.

We are in this period together. “We will prevail” as our Taoiseach announced recently. Let us pray that we will.