Bambinelli Sunday?
Our Parish Council is constantly searching for ways to involve our families in the religious formation of youth. As part of that effort our younger religious education students will participate in an Advent Blessing of the Baby Jesus commonly used as the center piece of each family’s crèche. This will be similar to a blessing given in Rome each Advent when the pope invites all the local children to St. Peter’s Basilica to bless them and their ‘bambini’ (Child Jesus statues).
For us it will take place on the last Sunday of Advent. Our religious education children, grades pre-k to grade 5, will assemble in church at 10:10 a.m. following a shortened religion class. Their families will be encouraged to accompany their child to church carrying the family’s own statue of the child Jesus. There will be slides and a presentation before mass. The actual blessing will be given at mass.