We aren’t building walls….rather, we tore one down! We literally tore down the wall between rooms Luke 1 & 2 in order to make more elbow room as we begin building our second Atrium, designed for our older children. A hearty and sincere thanks to our awesome maintenance staff under Derek Ikeler’s leadership who took that wall down in record time!
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is a what’s called a “spiral” method of faith formation, meaning that the same areas of focus that we have in the First Atrium, such as Baptism, Geography, Liturgy, Kingdom Parables, etc. will also be present in the Second Atrium but just a little more advanced and complex for the children who have already mastered the lessons found in Atrium One. So, for example, on our Atrium One Geography map we only instruct the little ones on three important cities to remember: Bethlehem, Jerusalem & Nazareth but in Atrium Two that Geography lesson now includes 15 cities that we hear about in our scriptures, as well as 4 Regions, 4 Waterways & 8 Mountains. So when our older children listen to the readings at Mass and hear “This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing….” or when they read the parable of the Good Samaritan, and Jesus says “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers….”the children can actually visualize where those cities are in relation to one another and the whole region in which Jesus lived his earthly life.
Also part of the CGS method is that all our hands-on “works” (the materials that accompany each lesson) for the children are to be handmade. So, we need all you crafty folks (glue gun in hand), and/or those who can paint, sew or do some woodworking to help us out. We have several project that are needing care…
So, if you are willing to offer your time and talent to our efforts in building our new sacred space for our children, please contact me, Lisa Brown, at dre@ctredeemer.org so we can set up a meeting and I can go over all the projects to choose from. Thank you for your time and consideration! Keep us in your prayers – much has to get down before our summer program begins in July.
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