Children's Liturgy Sunday April 18th 2010.
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We began today by thinking about the person
we would most like to meet- in the whole world, alive or dead.
Someone said Lionel Messi; someone else Scooby; Raggs; Ben 10; Ruby; Alice;
lots of people said Miley Cyrus; Lady Gaga; Justin Bieber; Jason; Lizzy;
Lee Evans; Westlife; Selena Gomez; Evie-Mae( a baby sister, who died before
this child was born ); Alexandra Burke; Black-Eyed Peas; Father David;
Barak Obama; Upsy Daisy....
Then we thought about the food we most like in all the world:
chocolate fountain; jacket potato with melted cheese;chees and tomato
pizza; chocolate; chicken wings; pizza and chipsgiant doughnut; ice cream;
MacDonald's; chicken; profiteroles; chocolate cake....
We played "Rice Pudding", jumping up and cheering our favourites
and getting excited.
Then we listened to the Gospel for today- John 21: 1-19. We thought about
how excited the disciples would have been when they realised Jesus had
returned to them after he rose from the dead. How very happy they would
have been....how we would long to see someone we loved who had died- a
baby sister, our parents (in the case of the Mother of Peace orphans),
Father David.
The disciples recognised Jesus when he sat with them and offered them
food. They knew they had been given his body and blood at the Last Supper.
He had told them he would die for them- because he loved them.
Now he was telling them to feed his "sheep"- or all the peoples
of the world, just as they had caught all the known fish in the world,
when he had helped them. 153 was a perfect number to the Jewish people-
it was a universal number. Some scholars think this number might have
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We thought about what really happens at the
heart of our Mass- the words
"THIS IS MY BODY"
"THIS
IS MY BLOOD".
At mass, Jesus comes for us, now, here, on the altar, at St. Joseph's.
We are given to eat, so that we can receive God's love. WOW!
WOW! It's more than Miley Cyrus, Westlife, Justin Bieber..all those people
put together; more than anything we could possibly imagine. How can we
be ready?
We practised welcoming Jesus. We practised saying to ourselves our own
greeting to him. Imagine being as excited as the disciples on that empty
shore, crying, "It's HIM!"
We talked about being quiet and reverent at that time in the mass. Sometimes
it's hard to concentrate.
May we feel in our hearts, "Come, Lord Jesus, Come!"
Amen |
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