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Making a Parish Banner
A few years ago the children in the Catechetical Formation Program of my parish started a project that "will be with us always." We started with a large piece of flannel cloth. Our aim was to make a patchwork quilt of the whole parish. At first we had each grade level designed a "patch" representing their group. Then we had patches for the First Communicant. How could we leave out those who had been confirmed?

That was followed by patches for the newly baptized and the newly married. Persons began to memorialize those who had died by bringing in a patch of their dearly departed. I did think we had gone a little far when I found a patch for Wiggles the Puppy who had died, but when I saw the look on the face of the child who had owned Wiggles I knew that even pets belong on Parish Patchwork Banners.

Try one! There really is no plan or method. You make it up as you go!

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