Good Shepherd Primary School

Last week we had the Primary 7s from Good Shepherd Primary School here for their post Confirmation retreat. As always, we started our day off with a few games. One of the games we play is called "Zoo" but one of the boys pointed out that a better name would be "Noah's Ark. " We thought this was a great idea, so "Noah's Ark" it shall be henceforth.

The Primary 7s were telling us all about their experience of Confirmation and now that they are confirmed they were thinking about what it means in their day to day lives.

If we're trying to follow Jesus we need to know what type of person Jesus was and so we played a game to think of all the stories about Jesus we could remember. The groups thought of loads of different stories.

Then we looked to see what qualities Jesus was showing in each story. We thought of people we know in our own lives who might share that quality and how we ourselves might show that quality to those around us.

The P7s wrote some prayers for the Prayer Service asking God to help them and others and thanking God for the blessings in their lives.

Dear God
Please help me and all my family.
Amen.

Dear God,
You are my light when I am in trouble and when I'm in bother.
Amen.

Dear God,
May our class become more wiser and have new friends in secondary school.
Amen.

Dear God
Please help the poor people live a happy life this year.
Amen.

Dear God,
Please help the homeless and keep them safe so that they find someone in their family.

Amen.

These thoughtful prayers and the effort that went into the other preparations meant that we had beautiful liturgies on each of the three days.

There was great spirit in all the young people we met and we wish them all the very best and hope some of them will be here again with their post-primary schools.