Lent 2008

Easter 2007
 
   

Children's Liturgy, Sunday 10th February 2008.

1st july 2007
First Sunday of Lent
Our Lenten journey this year is going to take us through the creation of the world. During the next six weeks, we will be making a collage, adding God's creation each week.
On the first day, God made the light, so we could have daytime and the dark, so we had night-time.
Some children made pictures of daytime activities, whilst some made pictures of the night.
Dear Lord,
In the day, please help us to always do good;
in the night, help us sleep in your love.
Amen.
 

Children's Liturgy, Sunday February 17th 2008

1st july 2007
The SECOND SUNDAY of LENT.
CLOUDS and TRANSFIGURATION.

In the Bible, in a poetic way, the writer imagines that on the second day of Creation, God made the sky and clouds.
Today we add the sky and clouds to our collage.

In today's Gospel, St. Matthew (Chapter 17: 1-9) tells us how Jesus went to the top of a mountain with Peter, James and John, who saw him transfigured. They saw him in a new way, shining in white robes. Moses and Elijah, Old Testament prophets, saw God's glory when they were high on a mountain. Now the disciples see the glory of Jesus. Briefly, they see Moses and Elijah with him. They would understand by this that all that Jesus did and meant, was a continuation of God's entire plan for his people.

God often appears in a cloud in the Bible. This tells us about the wonderful mystery of God, who today tells the disciples to listen to Jesus' teaching. Jesus was saying new things and they sometimes still had doubts.
Stuart gave us lots of Blue Tack, so we make figures of ourselves on a mountain, as we listen to Jesus' teaching. We realise we can transform our lives with God's help. Jesus fills everything in everyone. We are transfigured in Blue Tack!
 

Children's Liturgy Sunday, February 24th 2008.

1st july 2007
The THIRD SUNDAY of LENT.
We continue our Creation journey today by finding out what the writer of the Book of Genesis, in the Bible, imagines God created on the third day.
The writer imagines that on the third day, God made the dry land and called it earth and the water and called it sea.
On the earth, he put all kinds of plants with seeds and fruits.
Here is someone showing the tree they made for the collage. They care about what they have made. They made it as well as they could.
 

Children's Liturgy Sunday March 2nd 2008.

1st july 2007

The FOURTH SUNDAY of LENT.

MOTHERS' DAY
Today is Mothers' Day, a day when we think about and thank God for the wonderful gift of our Mums. We made the figure of Our Lady and added decorated flowers. Each flower bears the name of one of our Mums.
 
The writer of the book of Genesis imagines that on the fourth day, God made the sun, moon and stars. We have added these to our collage.

The Blu-Tack picture we made for the transfiguration of Jesus ,a couple of weeks ago, can now be seen on the Blu-tack website!

View it at www.blu-tack.co.uk page/art/item 33
 

Children's Liturgy Sunday March 9th 2008

The FIFTH SUNDAY of LENT
 
In the Book of Genesis, the writer imagines that on the fifth day of Creation, God made the fish and birds.
Today we added the fish and birds to our collage of the world.
 
We heard the story of how a little fish once asked a big fish how to find the ocean. The older fish said it was the thing they were already in. The little fish was disappointed. "But it's only water," he said and went to look elsewhere.
We can be forever looking for bigger, better things and missing what is under our noses!
Miracles can seem big and far-off too. today we also heard the Gospel story- John 11: 1-45- of how Jesus brought Lazarus back to life. But we don't have to die to be brought back to life by a miracle; all we have to do is to be open to God. In a single moment, we can choose to live as Jesus asked us. In a flash everything changes.(In the time of Lazarus, dead people would be wrapped in bindings, when they were placed in the tomb. As Lazarus rose, Jesus told people to untie him. This was also a way of showing how somebody could be untied from their old life, so they could act as Jesus had taught. When we told the congregation about this back in church, one child gave a demonstration by bursting out of wrappings!)
When Jesus heard that his friend, Lazarus, had died, he cried. Jesus understood friendship.
One of the liturgy children said that the best thing about coming to our liturgy on Sundays was seeing their friends.
This is a miracle we can easily miss. Friendship is wonderful.

Dear God,
During Lent, help us to see you in all our friends and to find you in all the people we meet, day by day.
Amen.

Here is a picture of a sculpture by Jacob Epstein of Lazarus rising from the tomb. You can see the bindings. The sculpture was finished in 1948.
 

Children's Liturgy Sunday March 16th 2008

The SIXTH SUNDAY of LENT

Palm Sunday

In our liturgy today, we heard that the writer of the book of Genesis imagines how, on the sixth day, God made all of the animals, wild and tame, small and large.
He also makes human beings, a man and a woman. In the book of Genesis, he puts them in charge of the fish, wild birds and animals and tells them to look after them.
God created our wonderful world and we need to take care of it.
All things bright and beautiful;
All creatures great and small;
All things wise and wonderful;
The Lord God made them all.

Now we prepare for Easter, when God sends Jesus to make a new beginning for us, by dying on the Cross, to show how much God loves us, and by rising again, on the third day.
Jesus is our Second Creation.