Faith Celebration Day

Faith Celebration Day

-Mr. Angelo D’Cunha

 St. Joseph’s High School,

Wadala,

12^th March 2013

Every year the Archdiocese of Mumbai conducts projects for regular school going Christian students all over Mumbai.  This is organized through different zones, also called deaneries. Our school comes under the North East Matunga deanery headed by Fr. Wilfred D’Souza, sdb. The Christian students of the school go through regular sessions of faith reflection in their religion classes, and a conscious effort is made to link this reflection to life. The Faith Celebration Day organized in the deaneries of Mumbai adds to the deepening of this faith experience outside the classroom.

The preparation for this day for the students of Std. IX begins in the month of August with a Research Project. A participation in this project is a requisite for attendance on Faith Formation Day and a certificate. The topics taken up for the research project were:

1. Neighbourhood Communities
2. Street Children
3. Careers
4. Self-Esteem
5. Environment
6. Boy-Girl Relationship
7. Houseworkers

Six schools of the North Mumbai(East) deanery participated in the Faith Celebration Day for Std. IX on February 21, 2013 at Don Bosco Primary School Hall, Matunga. The day began with a prayer service conducted by our own students with the reflections on the Gospel of the day and intercessory prayers. Thereafter each school presented the project topics given to them either in the form skit, dance or power point presentation. We presented our project on the theme of boy-girl relationship through a skit. We highlighted the aspects of respect for girls, forgiveness, and prudence. The skit ended on a beautiful note, “for each one of us there is a special time, and when we meet that someone special, there will be meaning and great joy in our life!” Fr. Wilfred D’souza summed up the message of the skit in his wise words, commending the students of St. Joseph’s High School Wadala.

After all the participating schools completed their presentations, the students and the catechists accompanying them were served yummy snacks. An interactive and faith enriched quiz was conducted thereafter based on the school curriculum, the Bible and the history of the Church. In the concluding vote of thanks by Fr. Wilfred D’Souza, the contribution of every school towards making this Faith Celebration a success was highly appreciated.