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Holy Name School Students Visit the Mount April 19, 2016

Second-grade students from Holy Name School in Henderson, Ky., came to Maple Mount on April 19, 2016, to learn about nature and the spirit and history of the Ursuline Sisters Motherhouse. Ursuline Sister Laurita Spalding is a second-grade teacher at the school.

Sister Amelia Stenger led the children, who are preparing to make their First Communion, on tours of the grounds, including stops at the community’s oldest tree, the Our Lady of Prompt Succor statue and the farm, where they visited with the cows. She talked to them about being good stewards of the land.

Here are some pictures from the day.

 

Sister Amelia Stenger, left, gathers the children on the steps outside the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center and tells them how Mount Saint Joseph Academy came to exist.
Sister Amelia leads the children across campus on the pretty spring day. Behind her in the green shirt is Sister Laurita Spalding.
As the students sit on the floor of the Motherhouse Chapel, Sister Amelia points to one of the stained glass windows featuring Saint Angela Merici. She told the children that before books, people often told stories using windows.
Sister Amelia smiles as the children gather around the “grandfather” tree on campus. She told them the tree has been at Maple Mount since at least 1898, because it appears in a picture taken when the Guest House was being built that year.
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Gathered before the statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, Sister Amelia shows the students two different types of lavender.

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