Children's Liturgy Sunday January 4th 2009
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Feast of the EPIPHANY |
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The word, epiphany, means a showing forth.
Today, we think about the way the baby, Jesus, is shown to the world as
God's Son, our King and Saviour. Saint Matthew ( 2: 1-12) explains this
by telling us that three Wise Men came to visit Jesus after he was born
in Bethlehem. Matthew writes about the visit in a way which reminds us
of the words of the prophet, Isaiah, in the Old Testament (Isaiah 60:
1-6). Isaiah had a vision of all human beings at last being able to see
God's perfect light.Everyone would be filled with joy. He talks about
people coming from far away to bring gold and incense to Jerusalem. At
the time, Jerusalem was only recently being rebuilt from ruins. Gold is
a gift for a king and incense a gift for God, as it shows the way prayers
rise to God in Heaven.
Matthew tells us the gifts are brought to Bethlehem, where Jesus has just
been born. He adds a third gift, brought by the Wise Men- myrrh, a strange
gift for a baby, as it is an ointment, used on the bodies of those who
have died. It reminds us that one day, Jesus will die on the cross for
us.
When we returned into church, we carried gift boxes which stood for the
presents the Wise Men took. |
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We thought about what we
ourselves would like to take for Jesus. We made cards to explain this
and took the cards to the crib we created during Advent. |
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We also took our Christmas gift for the AIDS
orphans in Zimbabwe who are looked after at the Mother of Peace Community.
By sponsoring us to make crib figures from recycled materials, the people
of our parish and beyond have helped us to raise over £580- the
final figure is £586!
All the children present signed a giant cheque. |
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