Dear Families,

Our annual parish oratorical festival is coming up in March! As we are growing in numbers each year with our youth, we have decided to split the festival into two days. All children 5th grade and below will participate on March 8th right after the service ends (around 11:30).

Any children 6th grade through 12th will participate on March 15th after church around 12:00.

We encourage all children to participate. If your child is in 2nd through 5th grade, they will be working on their speech in church. Kindergarten and 1st graders are also welcome to participate. If you would like them to, you can work on a two or three sentence speech with them. They can pick any topic that has to do with their Christian faith! We are encouraging kids to pick one of the 12 feasts. The younger children could pick Easter or Christmas or a saint they like/named after!

A good outline is:

My name is….
My saint or my favorite holiday is…
I like my saint or holiday because…

If you have any questions or concerns about this please let us know!

Karina and Lauren