Today, September 14th we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. On this special day we celebrate that when Jesus was crucified that the cross became a symbol of love and holiness. It was upon the cross that Jesus offered himself for our sins so that we might join Him in Heaven. What a gift! It is important today to learn about the sacrifice of the cross and to thank Jesus for His sacrifice.
Today to learn more and celebrate this feast day we read The Tale of Three Trees and did the activities listed with Catholic Mosaic. We love this book and how each of the three trees have great wishes of what they want to be when the "grow up"; to hold treasure, to carry powerful kings and to be the tallest tree so that people raise their eyes toward Heaven. The first tree became the manger for baby Jesus, the second tree became the fishing boat when Jesus calmed the sea and the third tree became the cross which Jesus died on. It is a wonderful story to talk about the importance of the cross.
We also did the art activity from Seton Art 1 to celebrate this feast day! With this activity we made a Cross with the corpus of Jesus and talked about the difference of a cross and a crucifix. We also talked about the gift of the cross and why we hang crosses in our churches and in our homes.
Finally today, since we are on vacation we visited a new chapel to us at St. Catherine University which is just down the street from where we are staying. It was a beautiful place to say a prayer and to be able to look at all of the different crosses and crucifixes around the church. I also love how after learning about the tabernacle and the Real presence of Jesus in Seton's Pre-K religion program that all of our children love to go into any church, find the lit red candle and pray to Jesus in the tabernacle!
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