Monthly Archives: January 2023

Nurturing the Inner Light

Advent at Home webinar

The SDS team organised an evening webinar called Advent at Home for parents and caregivers. In this webinar, Ms Mariella Catania explained how to set up different activities to make Advent a quiet time of preparation for Christmas. These activities include spiritual reading, family games, Christmas carol playlists from the internet, preparing a prayer corner and advent wreath using craft materials, understanding the Christmas message by using the Jesse tree and reading the lives of the saints, which are celebrated during Advent…

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A Festive Look at Christmas Activities in Maltese State Schools 2022

The Advent and Christmas season is lived in a very festive and joyful way in the state schools in Malta, celebrate with various festive activities. One can divide the activities into these three sections:

Creating a Christmas atmosphere

St Thomas More College Marsaskala St Anne Primary organised several Christmas activities, including a concert that included messages about helping each other and being peacemakers…

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Arguing at School

As part of the ongoing collaborations with various entities, Spiritual Development in Schools was invited by Julian and Joanna Sant Fournier from Relationships Are Forever Foundation-Friendship Cards, to attend the Multiplier Event in Malta on Tuesday 15th November 2022.  

The aim of the event was to open a transnational discussion between the different partners of the project on the theme of quarrels and conflicts between peers, (from 2 to 18 years), in the context of their life experiences at school…

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Wrapping up an inspiring journey!

The inaugural ‘Creating and Animating Prayer Spaces’ course organised by PFI and SDS concluded in December 2022, fostering profound connections within ourselves, fellow participants, the world, and the divine. Through the prayer spaces experience, the 18 participants who completed the 3-week course, nurtured a deeper understanding of our inner selves and the transformative power of prayer, unlocking a newfound connectedness that will resonate in our hearts forever…

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