Children's Rosary and Advent Celebration in Hamburg, Germany

On December 14, the children of the Children's Rosary and their families celebrated Advent. The group leader shared the following:

We prayed the Joyful mysteries and part of the Christmas Novena from the Colombian tradition. 

In each mystery the little ones carried a symbol at the foot of the Crib, explaining the mystery, and the older ones led the Holy Rosary. 

In the third mystery, one of our children carried a beautiful ceramic Baby Jesus. Jesus was born more than 2000 years ago and the children were not indifferent to this.

Then Ana, our catechist, explained the meaning of the 7-pointed piñata; the children rushed to break the piñata. Each point represents the 7 deadly sins, just as in our lives, we have to break with sin to receive all the graces that God wants to give us, all those graces are the sweets that spurt out of the piñata. 

At the end, Isabella, our craft leader, led the children to make wooden Christmas tree hangers; each child painted the hangers with many colors and scenes from the Nativity. They also had golden stars. 

It was a day full of Christmas meaning and joyful anticipation for the arrival of the Christ Child. From the bottom of our hearts we say:

Sweet Jesus, my sweet Jesus, my adored child,

come into our souls,

come, don't be so long!