Religious Education Update
'Religious Education enables learners to encounter God in their lives and to articulate what this means, in an environment that welcomes multicultural and multi-faith world views.'
Our Lady of Fatima Feast Day
THE STORY OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA
On the 13th of may 1917, three children Lucia and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta were tending to sheep outside their small village of Fatima, Portugal when a lady shining as bright as the sun appeared before them.
She asked the three children to return to the same spot on the 13th of each month for six months. The children returned each month to see the lady, they asked who she was and she replied that she would tell them in October as long as they continued to return to see her.
Each month more people came with the children to see the vision, however, they were not able to see the lady the children described. Some believed the children but some did not. The lady asked the children to pray for peace and the end of the war. She asked them to be faithful to God and pray the Rosary.
On the 13th of October the children returned to the same spot and by this time they were joined by people from all over Portugal who had come to see the lady. When the lady appeared she declared herself as Mary, the Lady of the Rosary. She told them that the war would end and that there would be peace. She performed a miracle, it was described as ‘the sun dancing in the sky’.
This week we have asked the children to choose a way to respond to one of the questions/prompt:
What is peace?
Why should we pray for peace?
My prayer for peace is…..
The children's responses will be included in the assembly this week.
Alicia Baker
Leader of Religious Dimension of the School