Days of religious orientation

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On the road with the Catholic secondary school...

16.08 - 18.03.22

The Marl Catholic Secondary School and school chaplain Laura Kapellner were once again able to attend the Religious Orientation Days for the 10th grade. With great anticipation, the students traditionally went to Maria Veen to the Mariannhill youth center, where they moved into their rooms from Wednesday to Friday.

The students dealt with the following topics:

On the way to me

On the way to God

On the way to the future

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Creatively, in conversations and in individual work, we talked about our personal life path and examined which obstacles we had encountered on our own path.


They tried out what it is like as a father or mother to answer difficult questions from their own child or which values and norms they consider particularly important in their lives. And finally, an imaginary suitcase was packed with all the good things that make up who they are and with which they can go into the future feeling stronger. Text

With the help of the “Talk Box”, the students were able to ask themselves questions that they had never asked themselves before and thus give the others a little of their view of life and start a conversation about it.


Father Thomas kindly showed the students the church and a little of the monastery of the Marannhill missionaries and explained where the expression “Shut up!” comes from.


In addition to the intensive work on the content, there were of course also enough free time in which you could play basketball, football or Monopoly, or simply spend time together in the room.

Satisfied and with fond memories, we can all now say: “It’s great that the Days of Religious Orientation could take place again this year.”

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