Children's Liturgy Sunday May 13th 2007

Sixth Sunday of Easter 2007

The Sixth Sunday of Easter

On Thursday this week, we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus, when he blessed his friends, before he went back to God. The followers could not see him any more, but they were not sad. They were joyful, because they knew he was alive and would still be able to help them.

The Ascension is the second Glorious Mystery of the Rosary. Last week, we looked at how we pray the Rosary. The groups of ten beads on a rosary remind us of a particular event in the life of Mary or Jesus. We say ten 'Hail Marys' as we think of what happened or pray for someone we want to help. Then we say an 'Our Father' and a 'Glory be'. We do all of this five times for each Mystery.
The five Glorious Mysteries are:
The Resurrection;
The Ascension;
The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles;
The Assumption of Mary;
The Crowning of Mary in Heaven.

Here is our pond.

It is full of little bugs. Every so often, one climbs a reed and the others cannot see where it has gone.

They agree it would be a good idea if the next one to go comes back to tell the others what has happened.

The next bug climbs a reed, but it finds it has become a beautiful, flying insect. When it tries to go back to tell the others, it hits the surface of the water and can't get in. But it doesn't mind, because it can still see its friends and carries on loving them.

Because it is so wonderful to be free in the air, it is happy.
It is in a wonderful place. It knows its friends will one day be there, too. All is well.

We talked about people or pets we love who have died and are in Heaven. We made dragon flies for each one of them, with their names on, after we put little bugs in the pond to stand for us. The dragon flies are in Heaven.