{"id":233,"date":"2019-09-04T13:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/?page_id=233"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:41:20","slug":"pope-francis-faith-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/pope-francis-faith-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Faith Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"cs-page-title\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sces.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/page-banner2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"cs-page-title\">Pope Francis Faith Award<\/h1>\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"active\">Pope Francis Faith Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich_editor_text\">\n<blockquote><p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: Thread-00000934-Id-00000445\">How beautiful it would be if each of you, every evening, could say: \u201cToday at school, at home, at work, guided by God, I showed a sign of love towards one of my friends, my parents, an older person!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/em>(Pope Francis, addressing young people, April 2013)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <strong><span style=\"font-family: Thread-00000934-Id-00000446\">Pope Francis FAITH AWARD<\/span><\/strong> is an award of the Bishops\u2019 Conference of Scotland, designed to help children to show \u201csigns of love\u201d in their daily lives and to be active members of their local Church.\u00a0 It invites young people at the Primary 6 and 7 stages to use the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and to see how they can bear fruit in their homes, schools and parishes. It is directly connected to what young people are learning about the Sacrament of Confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The award was introduced with a small group of 48 Primary schools.\u00a0 This pilot scheme resulted in 950 children being presented with the FAITH AWARD in June 2015. Further introduced to 120 schools in 2015, the scheme is now open to all Catholic Primary schools and parishes, normally involving children accross the years of Primary 6 &amp; Primary 7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Primary 6 \u00a0children have began working towards the Pope Francis Faith Award.\u00a0 This is an award which promotes the children\u2019s faith in all aspects of their lives.\u00a0 Please have a look at the link to see how you can help the children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sces.org.uk\/faith-award\/\">Pope Francis Faith Award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis Faith Award Pope Francis Faith Award How beautiful it would be if each of you, every evening, could say: \u201cToday at school, at home, at work, guided by God, I showed a sign of love towards one of my friends, my parents, an older person!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 (Pope Francis, addressing young people, April 2013) The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/pope-francis-faith-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope Francis Faith Award<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18082,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stjohnsprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}