Lovely 27 Angels In My Class On A Sunday

This year, I was blessed with 27 angels plus 2 big angels.

What? Angels? Yes, my class have 27 children and to me they are angels ranging from 7-10 years old. The first day is always the best because they are quiet and observing me very much. Am I strict? Am I scary? Am I mean? Am I nice? I see those questions on their face the first day. They are quiet and behave too!

On our first meeting, I was early because I am excited! It’s always exciting on the first day, not knowing what to expect, I guess. The boys and girls in my class always turn out good.

Before the bell rings, there was a parent with two kids. One will be in my class who happens to be younger and the other one is a 7^th grade who would like to volunteer. Although, I ask her if she wants to volunteer and get some community service and she was just beaming with her big smile. Besides, it is also good for her little sister to see her big sister in the same room with her. I am blessed to have two volunteers. The other one who is my daughter because I dragged her into this for years, leaving her no option but to come. LOL!

I told my daughter to show the new volunteer where the office is and my daughter is now beaming because she gets to play big sister! That was fun to see that look on her face.

We started with a prayer as usual and showed them how to make the sign of the cross, if ever they forget. They are kids! Of course, they forget. I also forget! That means, I can be a kid sometimes.

Since, it is our first meeting, we introduce ourselves to each other. I prepared each a name and gave it to them to display on their desk like they are someone special or a business person who usually put their name tags on their desk. The truth is: I need the name tags to help me with their names. LOL! 

On their name tags, I put each a sticker and they all love that idea! Every kid loves stickers, who doesn’t?

First day is always chaotic but we did good this time. My two big angels pass the books to the little angels. We get to check the first few pages of the book which consists of prayers. Then we begin with the first chapter of the book – Welcome lovely angels!

We talk about our family and our parish like what family we belong and parish we belong. My two big angels really helped the 27 little angels write their first answer – their last name! Some are having trouble with spelling and the two big angels were quick to help them.

I read a short story from the book about Zacchaeus, or Zaccheus who was a chief tax-collector at Jericho. In the story, he arrived before the crowd who were going to meet with Jesus, who was passing through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem. He was short in stature. Knowing so,  he will be unable to see Jesus through the crowd (Luke 19:3) so he ran ahead and climbed a tree along Jesus' path. When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up into the branches, addressed Zacchaeus by name, and told him to come down. Zacchaeus quickly came down to meet Jesus and invited Jesus to his house. He even promised to pay back the money he collected from the people.  A repentance… And Jesus saw that as he intended to visit his house. The crowd was shocked that Jesus, a religious teacher/prophet, would sully himself by being a guest of a tax collector.

And to enhance our welcome lesson, I ask them to go around and shake hands with everyone. No words, just a smile and handshake and everyone glows because they love to socialize. Is this the social generation?

That God doesn’t look at your sins but by the repentance from your heart. Everyone did just that, shaking hands with no idea who they are shaking hands with. Does it matter? The angels were happy and that Is what matters on this one fine Sunday with 27 little angels and 2 big angels who came to share the love of Christ in many different way!

One miracle I see today. One girl was crying. She was shy, her mom said. I told her, that’s okay because I am shy too but with God, I forget my shyness. When it’s time to shake hands, she got up, shake hands with everyone and went home smiling!

Till next Sunday again…

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