Before I entered the seminary, I used to teach origami classes quite often, to all age groups. I didn’t really have the chance to teach groups while I was living in the Legionaries of Christ, but today I taught origami to a group of homeschooling kids (and their moms), some of whom are my parishioners. It was great fun to do teach a group again, after twenty years!
After two simpler “warm-up” models, we folded traditional Japanese cranes. OshKosh B’gosh has a campaign right now, where they will send an article of clothing to a child in Japan for every origami crane sent to the company (or shown in a photograph). Details are on their Facebook page or on their website. Of course, some of the kids in my class were reluctant to part with their cranes, so we went on to fold the traditional origami bird that flaps its wings as consolation for sending their cranes to OshKosh B’gosh…
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About Fr Matthew Green
Currently parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish, on Cape Ann (serving the churches of St. Ann, St. Joachim, and St. Anthony). I moved to the area in early August '11, and am very happy to be in such a welcoming community and beautiful location!
One of my hobbies is photography. You can see my photos
on Flickr and buy prints of some of them
on Fine Art America.
I am a daily contributor to
GoodMorningGloucester (GMG for short), a blog by and about the community of Gloucester specifically and Cape Ann in general. The content is diverse, ranging from the beautiful and sublime to the earthy and occasionally offensive. I hope my contributions are of the former kind, not the latter. So, while I cannot endorse all the content that is posted there, I am grateful to Joey (the founder and admin of the blog) for giving me space to make my contribution.
I also have my own blog,
Perpetual Learner, which mostly includes my homilies and some re-posts from GMG, but also sometimes has other content, such as my personal reflections, videos I like, etc.
How fun. Good for you.