Another beautiful day at home. July 25th is the feast of St James the greater. This saturday we had the preteens club online. Why not we do something about apostles?
St James was known as greater in comparing with other St James lesser. There are so many places in Gospel we see St James, come and follow me , I will make fishers of men. There the first disciples of Jesus, then during transfiguration, at the time of passion of Christ....St James along with his brother John the evangelist is called Sons of Thunder.
Lot of things about the olden tradition of pilgrimage to Spain- Santiago de Compostella. Originally in 44 AD, St James after the ascension of Jesus, left to preach good new to Spain, as it says he reached up to the ends , the tip of spain, Santiago. He fulfilled what Jesus said- Go and preach the good news to the whole world, to the very ends of the earth. Santiago is a very olden pilgrimage shrine. Many go by walk / bike and basilica where the remains of St James is buried. Once St James was martyred, other disciples brought his remains back to Spain. Till 800 AD, ONE ot the hermit found out the remains of the saint and started people flowing to the place.I also got a dream to visit sometime in my life.
There are lot of beautiful incidents associated with St James, he was discouraged and returning to Jerusalem, Mary the mother of Jesus appeared to him, on a pillar, she encouraged him to be strong like a pillar and revealed to him what sort of death he was going to suffer in Jerusalem (Acts 12;2).
Our Lady of Pillar is still in Compostela, Feast is in October.
As part of the group, children were taught some scripture passage, MY SHEEP LISTENS TO MY VOICE AND FOLLOW ME''.John 10 ;27..... Then we went through St James cross, what it is meant to the life of a pilgrim, the need to listen to God. Following that scavenger hunt of some of the items of a pilgrim was done. Picture appreciation of St James was done and how to identify St James as he was a patron of pilgrims, Spain. By looking at the picture of St James always carrying a gourd, a pilgrim staff with a hook to carry things, a shell on his cloak, hat and so on.
Children had a craft session to make a St James craft with empty toilet roll and asked to draw the parts, coloured and stick together.
Crafts by Thrsu and myself to show children
Some of the crafts by children from the group
Last but not least, Last week I purchased madeleine tray to make some shell cakes which could be of special on this feast day. Shell is one the beautiful symbol, many of the pilgrims carry back as a souvenir after their pilgrimage and you always notice shell on the picture of St James the Greater.
Happy feast of St James the Greater
St James was known as greater in comparing with other St James lesser. There are so many places in Gospel we see St James, come and follow me , I will make fishers of men. There the first disciples of Jesus, then during transfiguration, at the time of passion of Christ....St James along with his brother John the evangelist is called Sons of Thunder.
Lot of things about the olden tradition of pilgrimage to Spain- Santiago de Compostella. Originally in 44 AD, St James after the ascension of Jesus, left to preach good new to Spain, as it says he reached up to the ends , the tip of spain, Santiago. He fulfilled what Jesus said- Go and preach the good news to the whole world, to the very ends of the earth. Santiago is a very olden pilgrimage shrine. Many go by walk / bike and basilica where the remains of St James is buried. Once St James was martyred, other disciples brought his remains back to Spain. Till 800 AD, ONE ot the hermit found out the remains of the saint and started people flowing to the place.I also got a dream to visit sometime in my life.
There are lot of beautiful incidents associated with St James, he was discouraged and returning to Jerusalem, Mary the mother of Jesus appeared to him, on a pillar, she encouraged him to be strong like a pillar and revealed to him what sort of death he was going to suffer in Jerusalem (Acts 12;2).
Our Lady of Pillar is still in Compostela, Feast is in October.
As part of the group, children were taught some scripture passage, MY SHEEP LISTENS TO MY VOICE AND FOLLOW ME''.John 10 ;27..... Then we went through St James cross, what it is meant to the life of a pilgrim, the need to listen to God. Following that scavenger hunt of some of the items of a pilgrim was done. Picture appreciation of St James was done and how to identify St James as he was a patron of pilgrims, Spain. By looking at the picture of St James always carrying a gourd, a pilgrim staff with a hook to carry things, a shell on his cloak, hat and so on.
Children had a craft session to make a St James craft with empty toilet roll and asked to draw the parts, coloured and stick together.
Crafts by Thrsu and myself to show children
Some of the crafts by children from the group
Last but not least, Last week I purchased madeleine tray to make some shell cakes which could be of special on this feast day. Shell is one the beautiful symbol, many of the pilgrims carry back as a souvenir after their pilgrimage and you always notice shell on the picture of St James the Greater.
Happy feast of St James the Greater
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