Children's Liturgy Sunday January 7th 2007

Children's Liturgy Sunday November 5th 2006

The FEAST of the EPIPHANY

The word, epiphany, means a showing forth. Today, we think about the way the baby Jesus is showed to the world as God's Son, our King and Saviour. Saint Matthew explains this by telling us that three Wise Men came to visit Jesus after he was born in Bethlehem. The Wise Men brought gifts, we are told- gold, frankincense and myrrh; gold for a king, frankincense which is used to show the way prayers rise to God in Heaven, and myrrh, a strange gift for a baby, as it is an ointment (like a cream), used on the bodies of those who have died.

In our liturgy, we talked about special gifts that we would give to the baby Jesus; gifts that you cannot see, like love, patience and kindness. We wrote our gifts on star-shaped cards and wrapped them up to take to the figure of baby Jesus in the crib back in the main church. Three children dressed as the three Wise Men.











Did you guess what Frankie was thinking in last week's drawing? Do you think he was looking at the bottle of myrrh as it went past the window in the hands of the third Wise Man...and is it possible he thought the bottle was a CAT? So did Frankie think the gifts were gold, frankincense and PURR?

He knows now what the real gifts were.