Children's Liturgy Sunday October 25th and Sunday November 1st 2009
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CHILDREN'S MASS |
Sunday October 25th 2009. |
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| We have learnt a new song to be part of the
Children's Mass for next week. In children's liturgy we have been working
together to prepare prayers and music to be used in mass. We are looking
forward to celebrating a children's mass on the first Sunday of every
month. For our first Children's Mass, we have invited the Leicester Zimbabwean choir to join us. They wanted to come to share prayers for Father David Everitt, from our parish, who has been working with Mother of Peace Community in Zimbabwe. You can read all about this if you click on 'Mother of Peace' at the side of this page. Father David is ill with cancer at the moment, so we are all concerned about him, and want to pray for him. Some choir members came to our liturgy today to teach us a song in Shona, the language they would speak in Zimbabwe, so we can join in next Sunday. We learnt 'Hosanna Kudenga', which means 'Hosanna in heaven'. |
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| Jesus, thank you for all your gifts. Thank
you especially that we can see the world around us and that we can learn
new skills. Amen Jesus, sometimes when things get difficult, we cannot see what we should do. Help us to remember that you are with us at these times. Help us to see things clearly again. Amen On November the first, we celebrated our first Children's Mass. We were delighted that Fr. David was well enough to be able to join us, in spite of it's being a very wet and windy day! |
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| We were also delighted to welcome the Zimbabwean
choir, knowing that their music would be truly wonderful- as it proved
to be! Our children had written bidding prayers. Here are some of them: Dear God, please help the places in the world where there is fighting and where there is no food or water for people. Help us to share what we have with others and not to fight over little things when we have so much. Amen. Dear God, thank you for people we love, and love itself. Thank you for giving us trust in you. Thank you for life and for times when we have fun. Thank you for always being by our side and walking with us in hard times. Finally, thank you for our family and friends, who, though we might sometimes find them annoying, help and guide us through life, just like you. Amen. We prayed for Fr. David and ask anybody who reads this page to say a prayer for him. Fr. John told us about how they first met, when Fr. David had been working previously in Africa and longed to go back. Now he longs to return again to Zimbabwe. Angel, one of our children, who has been coming to our liturgy for quite a few years, organised a play based on today's Gospel- Matthew 5:1-12.Our children acted the play very dramatically, with Fr. John managing to keep up with them whilst holding the mocrophone- just. Thank you very much to the Zimbabwean choir for joining us and providing wonderful singing and music. |
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