Day 25
Lenten Procession
Every year the high school does a Lenten procession of the Stations of the Cross around town. One of the new volunteers asked me the day before what to expect and I replied that it's pretty much hell! It's 100+ degrees, the sun is beating down on you, it's disorganized, there are 400 high schoolers not allowed to wear sunglasses or carry umbrellas for shade and they're all telling you "It's hot, Miss" as if you didn't know.
This year we started with Mass in the church and it was one of the best school Masses of the year. The students were attentive and well behaved then we started with the procession having 8 students carrying the large float on their shoulders. After two hours processing around town we ended at the school campus. I realized about halfway through how differently this year's procession was. Everything was so organized and the word "chaos" didn't cross my mind once! I hadn't seen a single water bag on the ground, which is pretty impressive for 400 students not to have a single piece of trash left behind. I only heard "It's hot, Miss" about 100 times which is much lower than the usual! And, lastly, so many of the students were actually participating in the prayers. It was a great procession. I'm so proud of my students!
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