ASH WEDNESDAY

This Wednesday, February 22nd, it was celebrate in Berchmans School the Ash Wednesday, the school community get together to initiate the lent, that meaning 40 days before the Easter weak, all the community participate of this celebration in a different way depending of the place they are.
The boys and girls of the primary celebrate the Ash Wednesday, whit a short communitarian liturgy in the coliseum, the students of the preschool; receive the ash in the teatrino of the school by the school pastoral director, and the boys and girls of high school receive the ash in a reflection, that was make in the different class rooms by the teachers. The collaborators of the school also had a way to celebrate this event; by going to the community they consider the most adequate.
 This day is so important in our school because it is the signal and a time to change and prepare to the Easter week, is a time to change our defects and to be prepared to celebrate this week, during the lent in the school we make different refection and prays to have a significant change. As a conclusion the message that this experience let in us is that "Jesus love us" and that he is here to help us to make a change.
This journal was directed by the school pastoral director and the different Jesuits that we have in the school.
In our school this liturgics celebrations are so important because of the school politic and mission.
POSTED BY: Ana Maria Portilla