Fat Tuesday

February 24, 2009

Every year each 3rd grade student at the K-3 Campus designs a colorful Alleluia Banner on “Fat Tuesday”.

The students go outside and have a brief prayer service, placing their “Alleluia’s” in a can, where they are burned, and buried. Church tradition doesn’t allow Catholics to say or pray the Alleluia during Lent.

The day after Easter, the 3rd graders will dig up the can-…. And just as through Jesus’ death and resurrection he “made all things new”- when the students dig the can up, each child will find his or her Alleluia whole again and ready for them to go out and Proclaim the Good News that Jesus Christ is Risen!