“Blessed bare the merciful. For they will receive mercy” – Mt. 5:7 The year 2016 in the International year of mercy as designated by the Holy Father Pope Francis. The students of ACS Barasat, rose to the occasion wonderfully, with each class putting their heart and soul into living by this virtue of mercy in ourselves. The classes presented a short and relevant programme every day in the morning assembly at 8:00 A.M. The weeks commenced with the senior most class, XII, portraying how we can be merciful towards our natural environment, on 24^th October. The high school students put all of their creativity, innovation and hard work into composing their own tunes on the power of love and mercy. They performed ski8ts that depicted how kindness can work miracles in life and how cruelty can force a person to shun all goodness and turn to their evil sides for comfort. The middle school dexterously showed various examples of corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The students pledged to make the world a better place by their acts of mercy. The value Education weeks came to an end with class VI A. It is an event that made us appreciated the warmth of human values in this harsh world and made us more sensitive and merciful to the people around us.

Bipasha Bhowmick

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