Holy Spirit art transforms Our Lady of Lourdes School hallways

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SALT LAKE CITY — Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School’s first-grade students recently explored details involved in understanding the Holy Spirit and the Fruit of the Holy Spirit. Certainly not an easy subject to grasp for a 6-year-old, but first-grade teacher Mrs. Sandoval explains it beautifully to her students, “The Holy Spirit is our helper and guide, and the fruit are signs that Jesus is acting in our lives.”

To provide context to the lesson, the students read a selection of Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, Gal 5:14-25, and learned about St. Thomas Aquinas. They made observations and discussed ways to apply the Fruit of the Holy Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, kindness and self-control – in their daily lives.

The final part of the lesson included an activity where each student created a Fruit of the Holy Spirit “Take One” flyer. Each flyer had the fruit listed on a tear-off tab. Then they decorated the halls of the school with their creative flyers for anyone to tear off for a little Holy Spirit help.

“We can all use a little help,” says Mrs. Sandoval.

The students had a lot of fun making and hanging their flyers and were excited to see that others had torn off a “fruit.” It was a great activity to teach the students that the fruit of the Spirit are the good habits, the virtues, the good deeds that come from living as a child of God.

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