{"id":8614,"date":"2025-03-07T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2025-03-09T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T10:42:28","slug":"primary-3-make-final-preparations-for-first-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/07\/primary-3-make-final-preparations-for-first-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 3 make final preparations for First Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8622\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/07\/primary-3-make-final-preparations-for-first-reconciliation\/img_6305\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/07114917\/IMG_6305.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1741347394&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_6305\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/07114917\/IMG_6305-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/07114917\/IMG_6305-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8622\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/07114917\/IMG_6305-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/07114917\/IMG_6305-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/07114917\/IMG_6305-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/07114917\/IMG_6305-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/07114917\/IMG_6305.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>Fr Lamb visited each Primary 3 class on Friday 7th March to help the children make final preparations for their First Reconciliation, which they will celebrate in the cathedral on Tuesday 11th March.<\/p>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The children completed a quiz about good and bad choices and Fr Lamb explored with the children if all bad choices are sins.\u00a0 The children reflected on how some bad choices are not necessarily sins, but maybe still aren\u2019t the best of choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The children went on to reflect on how the Sacrament of Reconciliation is a good thing as it is an opportunity to say sorry to God and make a commitment to being a better version of ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fr Lamb told the children that they are like saints immediately after receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation and that, although we may well sin again, it is important we try our very best to live lives inspired by the saints.\u00a0 He reminded the children of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a young person just like them who made good choices and touched the lives of so many people.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We keep Primary 3 in our prayers in these final days leading up to their First Reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8365 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/files\/2025\/02\/Pope-Francis-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"127\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\">Please continue to pray for Pope Francis, as he remains in hospital:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/02\/23\/please-pray-for-pope-francis\/\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/02\/23<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr Lamb visited each Primary 3 class on Friday 7th March to help the children make final preparations for their First Reconciliation, which they will celebrate in the cathedral on Tuesday 11th March. The children completed a quiz about good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/07\/primary-3-make-final-preparations-for-first-reconciliation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8658,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}