Please keep our 2nd year children in your prayers as they begin to take time away through meditations and retreat, continuing to listen even more closely to the Good Shepherd and pondering the great gift of allowing His sap to flow through their branch on the True Vine. (One child was absent on Ash Wednesday when the 2nd year children received their crosses and a special blessing at Mass, but her cross was carried up for a blessing on that day as well, so she is with them in spirit in this picture!!)