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Parishes and schools who were not able to attend the Healing Garden Prayer Service were invited to create their own way of observing Child Abuse Prevention Month. Read on to see the creative and respectful ways some of our schools and parishes observed the month.
In St. Giles Parish (Oak Park), their Religious Education students held Pinwheel Prayer Services as individual classes, planting pinwheels throughout parish grounds. Their weekly parish bulletins utilized the bulletin announcements from the April Campaign packet. They also created posters for each of the parish buildings explaining the pinwheels on the parish grounds. Thank you, Mary Ellen Casselman and all the students at St. Giles Religious Ed Program.
Theresa Rhea, DRE, of the Religious Education Program at Corpus Christi Parish shared photos of her students making pinwheels, and then proudly displaying their own pinwheel garden. Way to go, Corpus Christi!
Ricardo Acosta of St. John the Baptist in Harvey said that in their Religious Education Program, catechists took time to gather their students in prayer on April 21, 2012 specifically for those who suffered child abuse.