Children's Liturgy Sunday October 25th and Sunday November 1st 2009
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CHILDREN'S MASS
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Sunday October 25th 2009.
In today's Gospel- Mark 10:46-52- Jesus cures Bartimaeus, a blind
man.
In our liturgy today, we talked about God helping us to see and understand
the right choices to make as we journey through life. Also, to see
and understand new skills, talents and situations.
Today we have all had the pleasure of learning a new song in a different
language.
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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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