Walk in the Light!

Beautiful Light

Come where the dewdrops of mercy shine bright.

Shine all around us by day and by night.

Jesus the Light of the World!

Creating the framework for our lighthouse.

The lighthouse keeper's house.

Making rocks

Starting on our Lighthouse bookmarks.

Beginning to paper mache' the Lighthouse.

Paper mache' will make the Lighthouse strong!

Beginning to make our rocks for the Light of Christ candleholders with plaster and sawdust from our evergreen trees that were cut down last fall.  A year later we are still using parts of the trees.

Creating rocks for the Light of Christ. . . truly the work of our hands!

Making candleholders for the Light of Christ from baby food jars and colored tissue paper.

Working on our Light of Christ bookmarks

Making the roof for our lighthouse

Another layer of paper mache' will make the Lighthouse strong.

Creating candleholders for the Light of Christ

What a good use for baby food jars!

They will become our candleholders.

Putting primer on our rocks. . . later they will be painted.

Learning how to shingle a roof!

Beginning to shingle the Lighthouse roof

Adding more shingles to the Lighthouse roof.

The primer is on the Lighthouse and the Lighthouse keeper's home.

The roofs are finished!

Painting the stones and rocks that will be on the shore.

So far. . . so good!

Adding the blue cover to the Bible.

Bricks and mortar make the chimney!

Adding the flashing so the roof doesn't leak.

The Lighthouse keeper's home is almost finished!

Putting the gold edges on the Bible.

Adding a red cross to the Lighthouse.

Adding the sand to our candleholders

Working SO carefully with the sand!

Making a candleholder

Around the cross we put a bit of black trim

The Bible with many quotes about Jesus the Light of the World

A preview. . .

Another step completed!!

Adding the windows and door

Finishing up the candleholders

The big day arrives!!   All is ready!!

The catechists glue the candles into the candleholders.

The big day arrives!

Our Advent Family Reconciliation for 2004.

The light of Christ is burning brightly

Waiting patiently with lighted candles for the procession

The Lighthouse Keeper comes through the crowd to "light" the Lighthouse!

He places his lantern in front of the altar and goes to the Lighthouse.

He lights the lights in the Lighthouse!

Our candles adorn the altar steps

The children's choir sing joyfully

Jesus IS the Light of the World!

The end of this story and the beginning of another.