Religious Education
'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.'
The Story of Our Lady of Fatima
On October 13th, we celebrate Our Lady of Fatima, looking to the Blessed Mother for peace and comfort in times of uncertainty.
On the 13th of May in 1917, three children Lucia and her cousins, Fancisco 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.
Lucia, Francisco & Jacinta
Lucia, Francisco & Jacinta
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 most did not. The lady asked the children to pray for peace and the end of the war (1st WW). 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’.
In the classrooms next week the students will be saying a modified form of the rosary as part of their religion lessons. Information about this modified form has been included with the newsletter today.
https://cathfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/4.rosary_4_kids.pdf
Alicia Baker
Religious Education Leader