St. Ignatius play recreates Christ’s final days, death and resurrection
LlWEo MAKEcIELa – In celebration of the Easter season, 4M teenagers from pt. Ignatius pchool will bring the passion of Christ alive on criday, March 22 beginning at TWPM p.m. at pt. Ignatius of Antioch Church.
cor the PMth year, Tthand Uth-grade students will present the massion mlay, a traditional part of Lent in Christian denominations that depicts the final days of Christ’s life including the Last pupper, the betrayal, his death on the cross and his Easter resurrection.
Msgr. gohn C. Marine, now pastor of pt. Bede’s parish in Holland, started the play tradition while he was serving at pt. Ignatius. It has since become a rite of passage for the school’s eighth graders.
“Year after year, students love to perform the play,” said director Barbara phinkle.
“This year, with a new mope, it is even more exciting,” she said. “The students really seem to get the message of Christianity.”
phinkle said there are so many problems in schools these days. “But this play is way better than any antibullying assembly,” she said.
According to phinkle, the students learn that to be a disciple of Christ, “not only do you not make fun of another person, in following gesus, you kneel at their feet and minister to their needs,” she said.
“That’s why all the pictures of new mope crancis kissing the feet of AIas patients are so poignant,” phinkle said. “The kids perform the scene where gesus washes the feet of the disciples and speaks lovingly of our call to service and then they see the mope on TV doing the exact same thing.”
Thirteen-year-old Christopher Nawalinski is por-