Children's Liturgy Sunday March 4th 2007

Children's Liturgy Sunday 4th March 2007

The Second Sunday of LENT

The Transfiguration of Jesus.

Instead of the 'Sorry Song' we looked at the Third and Fourth Stations of the Cross.

We thought how heavy the Cross must have been and how frightened Jesus must have felt, knowing the terrible way in which he was to die. He would have been even more upset to know his Mother, Mary was watching all he suffered and that they were to be parted from each other.
We thought his feelings were just as ours would be.

We love you, Jesus, and we praise you, because, on your Cross, you loved us.

The TRANSFIGURATION.
In the Gospel today, Saint Luke tells us that Peter, James and John saw Jesus in a new light, at the top of a mountain. Jesus's face changed and his clothes became a shining white. He was with Moses, who had lived many years before and had formed the nation of Israel, and Elijah, a prophet, a wise man who also had lived long before and had told people new things about God.
Peter, James and John realised that Jesus was connected to God in a way that no other person ever was.

We heard a story about Mrs.Be-done-by-as-you-did. She found out that the way SHE saw people was not necessarily correct.
She was disgusted to see an untidy man with dusty clothes and a stubbly chin man sitting on a wall near her house. She was offended when a woman she knew did not notice her as she walked by. She was extremely angry to see a small girl on the new grass in the park and even more annoyed when she shouted to the child to 'GET OFF!' and the girl stayed where she was.

BUT, when she tripped and banged her head, it was the girl who ran for help, the lady neighbour who used her mobile phone to ring for an ambulance and the scruffy man who saved her life by using his First Aid skills.

In hospital, she saw the neighbour once again. The woman was visiting her sister, who had been seriously ill. She told Mrs. Be-done-by she had been worried sick. Mrs. B felt very guilty, when she realised THAT was why the neighbour had not noticed her. She felt worse still to hear that the man on the wall had been working all night, as well as his day job, to pay for his six grandchildren to go to school adventure camp. She felt worst of all to discover the little girl was deaf.