Children's Liturgy Sunday November 26th 2006

Children's Liturgy Sunday November 5th 2006
Christ the King. World Youth Day. Happy Birthday to Us!
Today is World Youth Day and it is also nearly a year since we started Saint Joseph's Children's Website. As you know, our mascot is Frankie the guide dog- a real dog in our parish who brings his owner, Paul, to mass nearly every day- so we say 'Happy Birthday Frankie'.
We had a party with crackers and we played 'Pass the Bone'.
 
Inside each layer of the parcel was a card the shape of a bone, with the word, hello, in a different language.
     
   
At the centre of the parcel was a present for the real Frankie, which we took to the altar. Thank you, Paul, for letting us use Frankie for our site.
     
 
     
On the children's web pages, we can talk to each other and to new friends across the world. Children as far away as New Zealand have looked at our pages.
     
 
     
It is world Youth Day and the feast of Christ the King.We heard in the Gospel that the Romans were worried when they heard Jesus talking about his kingdom, because they thought he would try to take away some of their power. They wanted to continue to rule all the places they had conquered. Jesus tried to tell people his kingdom was not of this world; he was talking about Heaven, but they did not understand.
We celebrate Jesus in glory in Heaven.
The nearest we can get to heaven on Earth is by creating Peace and Joy here. We need to listen to each other, in the hope that today's young people will work together in the future.

The children of Saint Joseph's greet the world. From the altar we said 'hello' in as many languages as we could.


JAMBO
PAVIAA
BOM DIA
GOD DAG
ALOHA
NAMASTE
KONICHIWA
SHALOM
BORE DA
SELMAT PAGI
BUNA ZIUA
SEKOH
NI HAO
BONJOUR
BUENOS DIAS
BUON GIORNO
DZIEN DOBRY
GUTEN MORGEN


Please let us know if we have missed anyone off, which we know we must have, but Fr. John needed some time left to finish saying mass!

     
   
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Submitted by St William on Sat, 2006-12-02 13:53.
The Italian for hello is Buon Giorno.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2006-12-03 20:03.

Well done, St. William! It means 'good morning', but this is what you would say to someone you didn't know very well. If it was a friend, you could say,'Ciao'.
Frankie.