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 The early years:

  The senior club was started it 1996 by Simonetta as a virtue, craft and singing group for young Catholic girls that met each month.  The group was formed in order to allow young girls to have good Catholic peers and healthy fun while learning about the nine virtues from the Father Lasance book.

   When the club was started, the girls that were in the club were from ages eight to ten.  When the girls met each month, they would have virtue study time with their teacher, Simonetta, using “A Catholic Girl’s Guide” by: Father Lasance as a guide for learning the nine virtues and their flowers.  They then would do a craft or baking project and sing fun Catholic songs.

 The growing years:
 
As the years went on, in 1998, the little flowers club introduced a new and exciting aspect, “theatre”.  At that time, the oldest girl in the club was only twelve and the youngest seven, but still, all were exited for the “home” play that would be put on for the parents and family at the end of the school year (May 1999).  The play would be called “The three Oysters”.  It was about a young servant girl who felt that her simple task, collecting oysters for the queen each day, was not a great enough or honorable task.  She wanted to do something that was admirable.  Then one day, the queen showed her that inside every little oyster shell that she brought her was a beautiful pearl.  It taught that real beauty and admiration comes from within.

    In 1999 (May 2000)  The Little Flowers Girl's Club put on their second play, "Saint Joan of Arc". This play was quite impressive and actually move the small audience to tears.  The girls were able to, without much acting experience at all, portray realistically the holiness and beauty of the life of Joan de Arc.

   In 2000 (May 2001)  The Little Flowers Girl's Club brought their newest play, "St. Therese of the Little Flower" to St. Pat's auditorium for their first step into professional theater! The director, who earned her degree from "Chicago's Columbia College" in dance/choreography, also started teaching dance that year (modest, modern, ballet style, cotillion, graceful dancing) and performed their perenially, well-loved dance, "Wave Hello".  

   Picture this:  You are sitting in a dark auditorium, the curtains begin to open and there on the stage are sixteen young girls in white dresses with virtue-flower wreathes on their heads.  The lights on the stage make them look heavenly and after the music starts, the girls sing their club song, "Sweet Blessed St. Theresa" by, Anthony Giedraitis.  The curtains close momentarily and open up to the dance "Wave Hello".   The dance ends with all of the girls making their way to the front of the stage, and with beaming smiles on their faces, literally "wave hello" to you!  There is a short intermission and the director, Simonetta, gives a brief description of her club and what they are all about.  The play then begins.  (If I could describe the play to it's fullest, I would, but, since space will not permit, I will try to give you the closest and simplest description of that performance that I can.)  You first get to know St. Therese from when she was just a small child.  Young Therese is a small and cute girl with curly hair pulled back in a bow.  You see her spunky and spoiled behavior and also her devotion to God at a young age.  You see her grow and cope with the death of her mother and how she chose the Religious Life (the Carmelite order).  In the end, when Therese dies, you see her from above her dying bed with a heavenly light shining from behind her,  showering the stage with roses, fulfilling her famous quote:  "I will let fall a shower of roses from Heaven"...

         

2005 Annual Tea Party

"We thoroughly enjoy the tea parties.  It is so much fun to dress up old-fashioned, have tea, cakes and play games that would have been played in those days.  The September tea party is always looked forward to by all of the girls."

The Nine Virtues and their Flowers-

Faith-Sunflower

Hope-Ivy

Love of God- Peony

Love of Neighbor- Rose

Obedience- Carnation

Piety- Forget me nots-

Humility-Violet

Industry-Daffodil

Truthfulness-Narcissus

 

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