Our Faith Grows

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St. Joseph Elementary and Middle School students express what Easter means to them.

OGDEN — Even though Easter was celebrated on April 4, most Catholics forget there are seven weeks of the Easter season, to Pentecost - 50 days after Easter. The students of Saint Joseph Catholic Elementary and Middle School recently completed their Lenten/Easter Project.

On Ash Wednesday, the Saint Joseph Stewardship Committee created a way for students to express what their faith means to them. Each week the students were asked to write down their thoughts pertaining to the following:

F for Forgiveness

A for Acts of Kindness

I for Integrity

T for Thankfulness

H for Hope or FAITH.

The students were given shapes of leaves and grapes, and each week these shapes were placed on barren paper vines. The students could visibly see the vine "growing" during Lent as they waited for the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

After Easter, the students were given multi-colored pieces of paper to write down their thoughts of hope. These pieces were placed on large crosses creating a mosaic of the hope that Christ has given each of us. The vines are outward and visible signs that Jesus is alive. The students can simply look up and see for themselves that their faith is always growing.