Children's Liturgy, Sunday, 29th June 2008
The
Feast day of SAINT PETER and SAINT PAUL
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The Feast day of SAINT PETER and SAINT PAUL.
Today is the feast day of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
Peter did not start off with the name Peter- he was Simon Barjona, a fisherman,
until Jesus asked him to become a disciple. In Saint Matthew's gospel
(16: 13-19), we heard how Simon was the first person to realise that Jesus
was the Son of God, the promised Messiah. (A messiah is someone sent to
save the people.) Because of this, Jesus changed Simon's name to Peter,
which means 'Rock', saying that he would build his church upon that rock.
Rock is hard, strong and firm- can only be moved with difficulty.
Because it is Saint Peter's day, we decided to make rock pets.
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talked of how, even though he was a very strong supporter of Jesus, Peter
let Jesus down at times. After Jesus was arrested, Peter was challenged
by someone who had seen him with Jesus. Peter replied that he did not
know Jesus and had never been with him. Yet he was forgiven and went on
to become the first leader of the Church-the first Pope- after Jesus'
death and resurrection. We realised that we often let God down, but we
are sorry and we are forgiven.
It is amazing that Peter knew that Jesus was the 'Son of the living God'-
in fact, most of us thought that he could only have realised this because
God put the idea into his head. It was God who chose Peter, just as God
chooses us before ever we think of God. |
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of this, we added ribbons to our pets, on which we wrote 'God chose me'.
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ask God to bless all the people in Zimbabwe who have stood firm when bullies
have tried to make them do things they did not want to do. We pray for
all people who are being strong in standing up for what they believe in,
when it is very difficult. |
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in church, four children performed our rap in honour of Saint Peter. |
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