Giving Thanks

Last week, our younger Faith Formation students focused on gratitude. They shared what they were grateful for, created gratitude leaf scratch-art for a class “Gratitude Tree,” and decorated wooden pumpkin centerpieces to bring home for their Thanksgiving tables. They also made cards for people in the hospital during the holidays as a way to share God’s love.

The older Level III students explored gratitude through the lens of Thanksgiving and the Eucharist. They created a “Gratitude Table Covering” by writing and drawing blessings down a long roll of paper, then discussed the Last Supper and how the Eucharist means “thanksgiving”—a holy meal where Jesus feeds us and sends us out to live with grateful, generous hearts. In the refectory, they worked together to make waffles as a fun way to share a meal and reflect on things for which to be thankful.