Back to School Mass

Unlike some other countries, the new school semester here in the Philippines start in June, end of 'summer'. We thought it might a cool idea to have a special mass for the children. They were also very excited to be actively involved in this special Eucharistic celebration. Normally, children are not so involved, but in this one, they were involved in reading the Word of God at the pulpit, the offertory procession and even signed 'the Lord's Prayer' in sign language in front of the altar! For weeks before this, the children were prepared spiritually with a clearly understanding of this special celebration.








At the end, we gave out blessed pencils, specially hand painted by our team members as a souvenir of the event.