Celebrating the Centenary of
Gianna Gobbi
with 100 Days of Joy!
Count Down - Day 8
Today, Sunday, December 8, 2019 day 8 in our countdown of 100 days leading to the celebration of Gianna Gobbi's Centenary. 

Each Sunday during this countdown, we are introducing the theme for the week. This week's theme is "Helping the Child to Pray"

Today we share from Gianna Gobbi's book Listening to God with Children, page 120-122:
"There are three important elements which indirectly aid prayer: silence, controlled movement, language. Each of these elements needs to be attended to separately with the children. . . . Stillness and silence foster reflection and the capacity to listen to the Other, to receive God's presence in our whole being. According to God's teachings, an emptying of self is what God desires, an emptying of self that will allow God to fill us with the gift of God's own self..”

Gianna Gobbi
We are pleased to celebrate the Centenary of Gianna Gobbi's birth, a milestone in the history of
the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd by sharing this
 "Pearl of Joy" with you!
Read more about Gianna in this new Commemorative Journal
This special Commemorative Journal allows Gianna Gobbi’s voice and spirit to remind us of the beauty, value, and gift of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and how we as adults must behold, must “see” the child before us, allowing for their contemplation of and enjoyment in the presence of God. 

several of the pearls in the pearl shell
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