Families in the Junior Learning Community gathered to deepen their understanding of symbols and their importance as signs of God’s love in the Catholic faith.
Rain couldn’t stop families from being part of a special workshop, designed to build on the faith knowledge of parents and children.
This faith workshop, for Junior families, unlocked some of the mystery around the symbols used in Catholic faith to show that God is always with us.
It is in the every day that we see God and discover the wonder of the Father in creation.
After families had the chance to share how they encounter remembering special people in their lives, they had the chance to connect these with how symbol is encountered in the Catholic faith.
Six symbols – cross, water, oil, candle, wine and bread – became the focus for the rest of the workshop.
You interpreted Catholic symbols in an easy way and that link to our life experience was brilliant. We love the hand-on activity which help us to remember the meanings.
After unpacking the meaning of these six symbols and examining how they can mean different things for different people at different times, families created their own symbol in the form of a stained glass window.
For hundreds of years, stained glass windows have been used to teach the people of God about their faith, and are symbols in their own way.
These symbols, and the miriad of other symbols used throughout Catholic life and worship, give us faith that God is with us all the time.
The stained glass window activity was really fun for both of us.
