U.S. kids in Rome help attach relics to Mother Teresa prayer cards

Published: 2003-10-15

ROME (CNS) -- When you're a Catholic kid living in Rome, religion class can take on a whole new significance. For instance, you don't just read about early Christians, you can take a field trip across town to the catacombs to see where they lived and died. So when Mother Teresa of Calcutta was about to be beatified, religion lessons led right into a pre-confirmation service project of attaching pieces of relics to prayer cards. Students from Marymount International School in Rome spent several days before Mother Teresa's Oct. 19 beatification using their lunch periods and after-school hours to lend a hand to the Missionaries of Charity. The order founded by Mother Teresa planned to hand out thousands of prayer cards in a variety of languages, each bearing a new image of Mother Teresa and carrying a tiny scrap of fabric, a third-class relic of a future saint.

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