St. Nicholas Day

We celebrate St. Nicholas day on December 6th. St. Nicholas is a patron saint of children, sailors, the poor, and the innocent.

As a school, we all put one shoe outside our classroom doors and waited for St. Nicholas to come by our rooms. We heard his bells jingle as we walked past our classroom. When we opened our door, we saw goody bags from St. Nicholas inside our shoes. Then, we said the prayer below.

                                    O God,

Help us to follow the example

of Nicholas, who loved the poor, the weak, and the young,

giving, what he had to those who had little.

May we, too, walk in the

way that leads to life:

loving you with all our heart,

  and our neighbors as ourselves,

 through Jesus Christ our Lord,

Amen