Children's Liturgy Sunday August 19th 2007
19th August 2007
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Our
liturgy was again led by Sister Maura, who is over from Australia. We
are enjoying her visit and her teaching very much!
The new children were welcomed.
We talked about August's being a month to remember Mary the Mother of
Jesus. She is known by several names, such as the Blessed Virgin Mary
and Our Lady. On Wednesday 15th this week we celebrated the Assumption
of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Catholic Church teaches that when she
died, she was immediately taken up to God, body and soul.
Mary is seen in many different ways in different cultures. Sister Maura
told us of a native Australian woman called Winnie, who lived in Warmun.
Winnie had never heard about Mary, but when she was told about her, she
said she had already seen her in her dreams. Here is a picture which shows
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Sister
Maura told us about the faith that people have in the power of prayers
for Mary's help. She described the way the Benedictine monks held up
a picture of Mary in front of a terrible bush fire in New Norcia. Now,
you can see the blackened picture still in its frame in the church there.
Sister then showed us a picture of Our lady which hangs in her own parish
church in Fermoy, in Ireland.
The second reading today- Saint Paul's Letter to the Hebrews, chapter
12, verses 1-4- speaks of being surrounded "By a cloud of Witnesses".
We talked about what it means to be a witness.
Who are the witnesses helping us on as we try to live as a Christian?
Family or friends?People from the Bible? People with us today?
We looked at special patterns, called mandalas, which help us to think
or meditate. We each coloured in a mandala, as we remembered those who
help us to live as a good Christian. We tried to be quiet as we did
this and if we wanted, we told the adults present about our witnesses.
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sang a song about Mary. |
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