Children’s Liturgy Sunday May 17th 2009

The SIXTH SUNDAY of EASTER

Praying the Rosary. During May, we are learning to pray the Rosary. The rosary prayers were revealed to St. Dominic by Mary and begun as regular prayers by one of his followers in the Fifteenth Century. Pope John Paul the Second said that to pray the Rosary is to be with Mary, looking into the face of Jesus. On October 16th 2002, Pope John Paul published a letter, asking us to “enter the school of Mary”, who knew Jesus so well. He introduced the Mysteries of Light. We are making our own Rosary, which we will show you before the end of May. Today we thought about the Mysteries of Light. Pope John Paul said he hoped they would help rosary prayers grow out of Jesus’ life.



This fits with today’s Gospel (St. John 15: 9-17), because Jesus tells his disciples they are his friends; he has shared with them all that God shared with him. His life was made up of ways to show them God’s love and all that remained for them was to love each other and all people. He said that there was no greater love than to give your life for your friends. Jesus was baptised by John. May we be open to God’s love and our lives spread that love.



Jesus turned water into wine. May we perform little miracles in our friends’ lives by being kinder than they expect.



Jesus said we could know God’s Kingdom now. May we help others know that Kingdom by looking after them when they are poor, sad or hurting.



Jesus was transfigured in front of his friends. May our friends see something different about us because of what we believe.



Jesus gave us himself in the Eucharist. May we give our lives to serving others; may we count everyone as our friend and may we love them.



Hail Mary, full of grace. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.