{"id":1514,"date":"2020-01-29T06:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T05:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2020-01-29T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:36:56","slug":"new-books-in-our-library-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating our Patron Saint Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

contributed by Ms. Denise Cassar, Class 4.3<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Wednesday, the 22nd of January 2020, the\nArchbishop\u2019s Seminary School celebrated Saint Paul, the school\u2019s patron saint.\nAll students, along with their teachers and LSEs, had the opportunity to participate\nin various activities that helped them reflect on what Saint Paul went through in\nhis life in his endeavour to preach the Gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary school started off their day with a\ncelebration in the Primary Hall, that took place in the presence of Archbishop\nCharles J. Scicluna. During the celebration, our Year 4 students took part in a\nmime that portrayed three episodes from the life of Saint Paul: the accusation\nand trial in Jerusalem, the journey that led him to our island and his stay in\nMalta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the celebration, all year groups were\ngiven a programme to follow. Year 4 students walked all the way to Saint Paul\u2019s\nparish church in Rabat. There they took part in three short activities. The\nboys saw a feature that illustrated key events from the life of Saint Paul and\ntogether recounted what they knew about the saint. Subsequently, they visited a\nsmall church dedicated to Saint Publius, which is adjacent to Rabat\u2019s parish\nchurch. Here they recalled and reflected on the kindness the Maltese people showed\nwith Paul and the rest of the people who were shipwrecked. A short discussion\nfollowed on how in our life we too can be generous and kind with the people\naround us. Later the students visited Saint Paul\u2019s Grotto, were the saint is\nsaid to have stayed while in Malta. The children were very interested as they\ngot to actually see where Saint Paul lived for three months. Here the focus was\non the sufferings Paul had to endure to remain faithful to his calling and to\nspread the Good News. The teachers led a short discussion with the boys that\nmade them think about how we too have to go against our will and impulses to do\nwhat is right and be good followers of Jesus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students were also given a long break on the\nchurch\u2019s parvis, where together they ate their lunch and had time to play. We\nfinally walked back to school. Both the students and the teachers loved this\nday and felt that it gave our community the opportunity to deepen our\nunderstanding of what it means to be followers of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

contributed by Ms. Denise Cassar, Class 4.3 On Wednesday, the 22nd of January 2020, the Archbishop\u2019s Seminary School celebrated Saint Paul, the school\u2019s patron saint. All students, along with their teachers and LSEs, had the opportunity to participate in various activities that helped Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}