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The ‘Living Love Joyfully’ session promotes spiritual development and provides a distinctive and enriching experience for Year 6 students in State schools.

The focus is that we continue to discover that we can live love joyfully together. Throughout this morning, we are helping students fortify their values, cultivate gratitude, foster self-recognition and appreciation, acknowledge their aspirations and limitations, facilitate growth, and ultimately deepen their self-awareness.

In an atmosphere of unity and camaraderie, students emerge stronger as they are encouraged to embrace the changes that come with transitions from childhood to youth and between schools and understand that when we cultivate and share love, we live love joyfully.

Some of the students’ comments about this session include:

“Illum jien u sħabi veru ħadna gost fil-“prayer spaces” imma jien l-aktar li għoġbuni kienu: Tar-ramel, il-kamp u tal-mera. Dawn għamluni nħossni ferħana, kalma u fil-paċi. Bħala suġġeriment nixtieq li l-ħin ikun naqra aktar twil. Grazzi ħafna! ☺” Faith

“L-iktar ħaġa li kont ħadt gost hija li għamilna l-activities għax aħna kellimna lil Ġesù. Ħaġa oħra li kont ħadt gost hija li għamilna l-Quddiesa. Jien ħassejtni vera ferħan għax l-activities kollha kienu sbieħ u jiena ħadt ħafna gost!” Aidan

“Kienet tassew interessanti. Laqtuni ħafna mill-attivitajiet li kellna. Xtaqt nesprimi x-xewqa tiegħi li kieku dawn I-attivitajiet ikollhom ħin itwal.” Randolf

Engaging Welcome

The session begins with a warm welcome, creating a friendly atmosphere through introductions and an engaging icebreaker game. Students are encouraged to interact and connect, laying the groundwork for a sense of community.

Animated Storytelling

The morning’s highlight is an animated storytelling session featuring ‘The Courageous Camel‘. As the camel embarks on a quest for happiness, students are prompted to reflect on identity, attributes, and the significance of personal qualities in unfamiliar environments. The story challenges them to explore their gifts, confront challenges, and consider their relationships with God, others, and all creation.

Prayer Space and Spiritual Reflection

A prayer space with various prayer activities is set in the hall for students to explore and experience for themselves. This reflective, creative, and interactive prayer space encourages a personal connection with their spirituality. Each prayer activity, such as ‘Pray for the World’, ‘Being Brave’, ‘Hopeful Journey’, ‘Forgiveness Stones’, ‘Peace Oasis’, and others, prompts thoughtful responses and a deeper understanding of one’s relationship with oneself, others, the world, and God.

  • Sorry Sand
  • Pray for the World
  • Forgiveness Stones
  • Peace Oasis
  • Be Still
  • default
  • Being Brave
  • Forgiveness Stones
  • Prayer Space
  • Prayer Space
  • Peace Oasis
  • Hopeful Journey
  • Prayer Space
  • Sorry Sand
  • Leg Challenge
  • Big Questions
  • Mirror
  • Big Questions
  • Handwritten

Fostering Gratitude and Joy in Holy Mass

Integrated into the session was a Holy Mass that weaved themes utilising personal qualities for the greater good, learning from mistakes, asking forgiveness, embracing gratitude, and joy in love. As students joined in songs and prayer, they were reminded of the importance of their relationship with God and his love for them.  

Collaboration

The ‘Living Love Joyfully’ session is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Education, the Office for Religious Education and Spiritual Development in Schools. The session unfolds at St Joseph Home in St Venera. It is animated by Fr Reuben Gauci, coordinator at SDS, alongside pastoral workers Anne Marie Gatt, Matthew Gauci and Silvana Cardona.

Participate and Fill in the Form >>

To register your classes for this session, please complete the following form. For any inquiries or additional information, please feel free to contact Ms Antoinette Laferla at [email protected] or 79618463 or Fr Reuben Gauci at [email protected] or 79058498.

This session is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Office for Religious Education and Spiritual Development in Schools.

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