Pentecost

Understanding: Realizing how great God is.
– Insistent Friend: “He was persistent and kept asking.”
– Chalice and Paten: “The Holy Spirit helps us understand this is Jesus.”
– Crucifix: “When Jesus died on the cross it showed His greatness.”
– John Paul II: “He understood that people needed to know that God loved them.”
– Angel from the Tomb: “He helped the women understand that Jesus rose from the dead.”
– Angel from the Annunciation: “When the Holy Spirit came over her she understood why she was going to have a baby.”
– Temple and candle from City of Jerusalem: “When Jesus died there was three hours of darkness but he was greater than the darkness.”
– Tomb from City of Jerusalem: “This is because God rose from the dead. He died so I can live.”
– Crucifix: “It shows how great God is because He took away our sins by dying on the cross.”

Wisdom: Knowing what to do with our knowledge and understanding of God.
– St. Therese: “She had wisdom because she loved the other sister, the one who didn’t like her.”
– Angel: “The angel tells us what we should do to live with these gifts well.
– Crucifix: “When Jesus was on the cross God was with Him and when I look at the crucifix I know He is with me too.”
– Nothing: “I brought nothing because I nothing can help me know how to use my knowledge and understanding except God.”
– Bible: “God’s Word is filled with wisdom and when we read it we have wisdom too.”
– Bell: “When the bell rings at Church we use our understanding and know that the bread is Jesus.”
– Wise Bridesmaids: “The wise ones brought oil so they could light the way when the bridegroom came.”
– Sheep: “The sheep have wisdom because they only recognize the Good Shepherd’s voice.”
– Apostle: “The apostles used wisdom to spread the news about Jesus.”
– Good Shepherd: “He had wisdom to have the sheep follow Him. He didn’t force them. They just came so they knew and understood that He would take care of them.”
– Mary and the gifts from the Magi: “When the wise men saw the star they knew it would help them and they followed it and were surprised when they saw Jesus.”
– Cross: “We can know God any way and all ways.”
– Globe: “God made the earth and I’m glad we are real and living so we can know and understand Him.”
– Mary from the Flight into Egypt: “Mary had to go back and forth and listen to the angel and travel and listen to the angel and travel again and Mary went right away when the angel said she should go.”

Counsel: Knowing the right choice, the choice God would have us make.
​- Origin of the Eucharist panel: “The people who teach in the church know more about God than me but God knows a lot more because God is God but the Church wants to share that with us.”
– Maxim: “‘When you give alms do not blow a trumpet before you,’ is like making a decision; so, should I do the good thing or the bad thing.”
– Joseph: “When the angel appeared to him and said they had to travel somewhere else Joseph decided to just go right away and not wait for the morning.”
– Palm from the City of Jerusalem: “That’s when God was coming into other places. He can’t just be in one place. He can be in multiple at one time.”
– Maxim: “‘Be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect,’ reminds us to be like God as much as we can.”
– “Glory to God in the Highest:” “It helps you because if you say it you might feel better and then you might know what to do.”
– Signpost for Egypt/Israel: “It helped Joseph and Mary to know where to go to make it safe. This was like a sign of safety.”
– Insistent Friend: “When his friend needed bread, he made the choice to go and help him.”
– Baptismal oils: “Once you were baptized you started to make the choice to be good.”
– Tax collector: “He used counsel so he could make a good choice to look deep inside his heart.”
– Wise Bridesmaid: “She made the right choice to have extra oil.”
– Cross: “Jesus used counsel and all of the gifts perfectly.”
– Apostles: “When they gather for the Last Supper it was kind of like it was a council.”
 
Fortitude: Being strong for God; using God’s strength and power to do what is right and good.
– Apostle: “They could use God’s power to do everything, even move mountains or make money like double for themselves, but they used it to help the poor. They could do miracles, but they helped and did things for others, not for themselves.”
– Peter: “He was the second person to turn the bread and wine into Jesus’ Body and Blood.”
– Garden of Olives: “When Jesus was praying, He had to have a lot of power to pray because it was stressful and when the guards took Him, He had a lot of power to not fight back.”
– Sheep: “God was teaching them strength and they started learning how to follow Him.”
– Anne and Mary: “Anne and Mary are reading the Bible and when they read, they get stronger.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas: “He wrote about God and that took fortitude.”
– Sheep and Hired Hand: “The sheep and the man were kind of scared. The man ran away but the Good Shepherd had fortitude and protected the sheep.”
– Wheat seed (Mystery of Life and Death): “When God was very small, He was not so powerful at that time but when He died and was risen, He was very powerful.”
– Jesus holding the paten: “Jesus had strength in Him, and He put that strength into the bread when He made it His Body.”
 
Piety: Loving God more than anything or anyone else. Taking delight in loving God.
– Pope Francis: “He’s a priest and he loves God more than anything.”
– Mary from the Visitation: “Mary and Elizabeth were rejoicing because of Jesus.”
– Apostles: “They told everyone about Jesus and shared His Body and Blood.”
– Baptismal Oils: “Celebrating your Baptism and the joy that comes from Baptism.”
– Simeon and Jesus: “He loved Jesus so much that he asked God if he could live just so he could see Him.”
– Peter: “He loved Jesus more than anything and he cried a lot when he denied him.”
– Mary: “She loved Jesus and she loved God. Jesus is God and He is God’s gift.”
– Bible: “The Bible shows how we know God for like forever.”
– 3 Wise Men: “They knew that Jesus was born and so they started to go and see Him because they loved Him so much.”
– Priest: “He loved God more than anything else because at Mass He says that sometimes.”
 
Fear of the Lord: Realizing that God is so great and we are so small and He loves us very much.
– Shepherd: “The sheep was afraid but then he saw how good and great the Shepherd was.”
– Amen: “We say Amen because God is so good.”
– Angel from the Tomb: “When the angel came they were afraid but the angel said, ‘Do not be afraid,’ and they were kind of afraid but then they were like, ‘How can this be that he’s alive?’ and they were kind of in awe.”
– 3 Wise Men: “When they say baby Jesus they were in awe and they laid down in front of Him.”
– “When miracles happened like when Jesus turned five loaves and two fish into so much more, people were surprised and in awe.”
– Mary: “When the angel appeared to her and told her she was having a baby she was surprised, and she felt very good.”
– Thurible: “When they incense the monstrance, they put the smoke in front of the monstrance which is God. They put fire and smoke in front of it because God is so powerful.”
– Tomb: “I brought this tomb because when the three women saw that Jesus was gone, they were so amazed that He was risen and gone.”
– Angel: “The angel loved God and God loved the angel and the angel was sending messages from God
– Shepherds and angel: “When the angel appeared to them they were scared but they saw God had so much power and then they went and saw Jesus who was so little.”