tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78446269734531728472024-03-05T04:29:20.552-05:00Children's Liturgythe easiest Children's Liturgy program! Designed to bring the Word of God to children using the same format as we use in Mass. In use worldwide since 2000!kvanattahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05317185475817453723noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844626973453172847.post-11511463221645564312024-02-11T09:01:00.001-05:002024-02-11T09:01:06.295-05:00Search Bar<p> Hi Friends! I do want to keep this resource accessible but I am no longer able to update it for you.</p><p>I just adjusted the display so that THREE versions will come up.</p><p>For example, if you search '6th Ordinary', the plan for all three cycles comes up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for your support. Please continue to let me know how I can help - short of keeping track weekly or providing an updated file.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to your reaching out - I figured out how to install a search bar</p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>I figured out how to adjust the display</p><p> However I can keep this within reach for you, I will try!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~~ Kay<br /></p><p> <br /></p>kvanattahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05317185475817453723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844626973453172847.post-54235427441909735662023-12-01T10:17:00.000-05:002023-12-01T11:22:57.492-05:003rd Sunday Advent B<!--[if !mso]>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s light the candle to show that we are ready to listen to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Isaiah. (Isa 61:1-2) Isaiah tells the people (and us!) that God sent him to tell others about God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Israelites who listened to Isaiah were not happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many were slaves and had to do what others told them to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They often did not have enough to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretend you are an Israelite and listen to the words of Isaiah. See how they make you feel.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of the Apostle John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(John 1:19-28).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When John the Baptist talked to the people and baptized them, many people followed him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There had been many prophets before John (like Isaiah).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Israelites had been waiting a long time for the Lord to come to save them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many people liked John that many of them thought he might be the one they were waiting for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this reading, some of them ask John if he is the Messiah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to what he tells them.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use this scallop shell graphic for all 3 symbols, small for the communal poster, medium for the banner symbol and large for the Offertory gift</td></tr>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does anyone remember what last Sunday was? <show the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">heart</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the 1</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><sup>st</sup></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Sunday of Advent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked about how to get ready for Jesus to come into our lives. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s symbol <hold up the symbol> is a </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">footprint</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you think the footprint might represent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><walking> </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Explain:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Today we are talking some more about getting ready for Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are using a different idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are going to hear about preparing the way for Jesus – like a path or a road. We are going to hear about a special prophet who told people that Jesus was coming.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We have two readings today.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s light the candle to show that we are ready to listen to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Isaiah. (Isa 40:3-5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many years before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah talked about preparing the way for the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to the words of Isaiah and try to think of what it might mean in your life.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask: </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does this scripture reading mean to you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><discuss with the children how they might “flatten mountains” or “level rough road” by doing good things for others> </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Lord, show us your mercy, and grant us your salvation.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Mark 1:1-8)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the time when Jesus was alive, most people were used to hearing the words of the prophet Isaiah. This reading in the New Testament begins with the words of Isaiah that you just heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we hear about the prophet John, known as the Baptist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John came to tell about someone who was coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to John’s words and see if you can understand who John is talking about.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Explain:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Color this symbol of the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">footprint </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">and bring it to the altar (don’t forget to put your name on the back!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to show what we have learned about being on the path to Jesus. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use this graphic for all 3 symbols.... small for the group project, medium for the banner symbol and large for the Offertory gift</td></tr>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><span dir="ltr"></span>2</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.9919pt; font-weight: bold;"><sup>nd</sup></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"> Sunday Advent Cycle B</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Explain:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> There are 4 Sundays in Advent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We use this time to think about God and try to be as good as we can to get ready for the birth of Jesus.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does anyone remember what last Sunday was? <show the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">heart</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the 1</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><sup>st</sup></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Sunday of Advent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked about how to get ready for Jesus to come into our lives. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Introduce symbol</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s symbol <hold up the symbol> is a </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">footprint</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you think the footprint might represent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><walking> </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Explain:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Today we are talking some more about getting ready for Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are using a different idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are going to hear about preparing the way for Jesus – like a path or a road. We are going to hear about a special prophet who told people that Jesus was coming.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s look at today’s poster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does it say? <</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Lord, show us your mercy and love, and grant us your salvation.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is our Responsorial Psalm for today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Introduce readings</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We have two readings today.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s light the candle to show that we are ready to listen to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Isaiah. (Isa 40:3-5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many years before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah talked about preparing the way for the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to the words of Isaiah and try to think of what it might mean in your life.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask: </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does this scripture reading mean to you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><discuss with the children how they might “flatten mountains” or “level rough road” by doing good things for others> </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Now it is time for the Responsorial Psalm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your part is to say:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Lord, show us your mercy, and grant us your salvation.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Mark 1:1-8)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the time when Jesus was alive, most people were used to hearing the words of the prophet Isaiah. This reading in the New Testament begins with the words of Isaiah that you just heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we hear about the prophet John, known as the Baptist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John came to tell about someone who was coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to John’s words and see if you can understand who John is talking about.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Let’s stand and get ready to hear the Gospel</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(hold up card)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Read:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read the Gospel</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Do you know who John was talking about?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><Jesus> Does anyone remember how John was described in the Gospel reading?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><clothes of camel’s hair, leather strap around his waist, ate grasshoppers><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you were a person in the crowd, do you think you would have figured out what he was talking about?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you even think you would have listened to such a man?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><maybe – maybe not></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Explain:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Color this symbol of the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">footprint </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">and bring it to the altar (don’t forget to put your name on the back!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to show what we have learned about being on the path to Jesus. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Ask the older children to write one thing that they will do this week to show that they are on the path to be with Jesus. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">If there is time, ask questions and go over the lessons one more time to help the children remember. </span></div>
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Dear parents,</div>
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Today is the Second Sunday in
Advent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The children listened to
simplified versions of two of the same readings you heard: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 40:3-5</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mark
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to Jesus’ coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked about John
the Baptist and how he told people about Jesus’ coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tied together the Old Testament reading in
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child, choose one or two drives that you would like to participate in together.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> Feast of Christ the King Cycle A</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask them to get their carpet squares and sit down in a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Introduce yourself and your helpers.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today is the Feast of Christ the King. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Last week’s symbol was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">talent</b>. We talked about ways that we can use the gifts God gave us to make the world a better place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Today’s symbol is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">crown</b>. Who wears a crown? <a royal person> Jesus is our King, so we remember that today by using a crown as our symbol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> God is our king. He is powerful over all heaven and earth. And God is often compared to a shepherd in the Scriptures. Does anyone remember why? <sheep were ver important in biblical times, a shepherd would do anything to keep his sheep safe></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s take a look at the poster. What does it say? <<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.></b> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today. The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s light the candle to show that we are ready to listen to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Ezekiel. (Ezekiel 34:11- 12, 14-16abce). In this reading, you will hear God comparing himself to a shepherd. A shepherd would do many things to care for his sheep. If God is the shepherd, can anyone tell me who they think the sheep might be? <US!> Listen closely to this reading for ways that a shepherd takes care of his sheep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Have the reader read the first reading. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What did you hear? <let the children discuss> A shepherd leads his sheep to good places, takes care of their injuries, helps the ones who are not strong. Who does those things for us? <God – but also many people like parents!> Sometimes God works through other people to take care of us. Sometimes God works through YOU to help other people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Matthew (Matthew 25:31-46) In the beginning of today’s reading, we hear that God will judge us at the end of the world. The reading compares us to sheep and goats. When God speaks to the sheep, God tells them that they were saved because of certain things that did. First of all, who do you think the sheep represent? <two possible answers are: us, the people who went to heaven> Second, let’s listen to the reading and hear what things God likes for us to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory and praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> “a reading from the holy gospel.....”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">All respond:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Glory to you, O Lord.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What are some of the good things that the “saved” people did? <fed the hungry, clothed the naked, gave comfort to the unhappy, etc.> Why does God like for people to do these things? <God says that whatever we do for each other, we do for him> These things that are listed out in this reading are called the Works of Mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Feast of Christ the King</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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The children listened today to two of the same readings you did: Ezekiel 34:11-12, 14-16abce and Matthew 25:31-46.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">To reinforce at home:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Jesus is God and leads us all! In the first reading we heard from Ezekiel. God uses the image of a shepherd to help the people understand how much he loves us. Sheep were the livelihood of the people who lived in biblical times. A family’s survival often rested on the safety and health of their sheep. Shepherds were to care for the sheep at al costs. God cares for us in the same way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> In Matthew, we heard about the judgment day when the good and the bad people will be separated from each other. The major point of the passage is to point out the things that the “saved” people had done: fed the hungry, clothed the naked, gave comfort to the sad. These are called Works of Mercy. The Works having to do with taking care of physical needs of people are called Corporal Works of Mercy. Those having to do with filling spiritual needs are called Spiritual Works of Mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask: </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Today is the 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial";">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Sunday of Advent. Did anyone notice anything different about the church today? <use of the color purple, advent wreath, etc.> We are starting a new season and a new year in our church. The season is called Advent. Can anyone tell me anything about Advent? <discuss> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Explain:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Advent is a time when we prepare our hearts and our lives for something very special. Does anyone know what the special thing is? <Jesus!> Which feast is at the end of Advent? <Christmas></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;"> Ask:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Does anyone remember what the symbol for last Sunday was? <a crown> And what did it represent? It represented Jesus, our King. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;"> Say:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s symbol <hold up the symbol> is a </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">heart.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What does a </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">heart</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> make you think of? <LOVE! > Our hearts are in the center of our bodies. We have to have hearts to live. We talk about our hearts like they hold important emotions (like love). We want the love of Jesus in our hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Explain:</span> Advent is a time when we wait to celebrate Jesus’ birthday. We also remember the next time that Jesus will come back to us – at the end of the world. We have to get our hearts ready to receive Jesus. We will talk about some ways to prepare for Jesus’ coming.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">: Let’s look at the poster we will make today. What does it say? <</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Give peace, O Lord, to those who wait for you.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today, a psalm of praise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What does it mean “to have peace while we wait for Jesus”? <to be calm, to be happy, not to get to upset that we have to wait></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthian people. (1 Cor 1:3-9) In this reading, St Paul talks about how grateful he is that Jesus came to earth to be with us. He talks about how God will take care of us until Jesus returns to earth. Pretend that you are a child who lived in the city of Corinth. Listen and think about how St Paul’s letter makes you feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s Gospel reading comes from the New Testament book of Mark. (Mark 13:33-37) In this reading, Jesus is talking to his disciples. He compares his coming back to earth with another situation. He compares it to a man leaving his house and putting his servants in charge who also doesn’t tell them when he is coming back. Listen to Jesus’ words as if you were one of his disciples. What do you think Jesus trying to tell the disciples?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say: </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">What was Jesus trying to tell his disciples? <discuss – to be ready for his return> What can we do to get ready for Jesus to be in our lives? <be good to people, obey parents, do homework, pray more etc.> These are things that we want to try to do during Advent. We want to try to be closer to God by being the best people we know how to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Explain:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Color this symbol of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">heart </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">and bring it to the altar (don’t forget to put your name on the back!) to show what we have learned about preparing for Jesus’ coming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Today’s emphasis was on Advent. We talked about the season of Advent, what is means and how it correlates to the time we spend in our lives waiting for Jesus’ return at the end of the world.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use this graphic in gold for the banner symbol and as the black & white full sheet coloring page Offertory gift</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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The children listened today to two of the same readings you did: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 and Matthew 25:14-15, 19-21.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Today is the last Sunday in Ordinary Time this year. Next week we celebrate the feast of Christ the King and the end of our liturgical year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">In St. Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians, he talks about being ready for the end of the world. We remembered last week’s readings about being ready! For us in our lives today, that means living the best life we can so that our hearts are ready to receive Jesus. If we always have love in our hearts, it won’t matter when the final judgment occurs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> In Matthew, we hear another parable describing the kingdom of heaven. We hear about the faithful servant who increased his master’s money. We compared the money left in the servant’s care to the talents and gifts that God gave each of us. We talked about our responsibility to use those gifts to make the world a better place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> *Make a list! What are the things your child likes to do? Take those talents and find concrete things your child can do to help make the world a better place. An artist might like to draw a picture to send to someone who is sick, a talker might like to visit that person. A child who likes to shop might like to help you find sale items of food and clothing to donate to those in need. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for sharing your children!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask them to get their carpet squares and sit down in a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Introduce yourself and your helpers.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Last week’s symbol was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bible</b>. The Bible is the word of God saved for us over many, many years to help teach us what God wants us to know about how to live. Listen to others and learn from them, but go back to the word of God to make your decisions about life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Can anyone tell me what today’s symbol is? <hold up symbol and let children respond> Today’s symbol is an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">oil lamp</b>, the kind used in biblical times. What is an oil lamp for? <to light the house at night></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s take a look at the poster. What does it say? <<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord, my God.></b> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today. The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord, my God.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thirty-second Sunday of Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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The children listened to simplified versions of two of the same readings you heard: Wisdom 6:12-16 and Matthew 25:1-13.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Wisdom is a big word that we talked about today. We hear in the book of Wisdom that if we look for wisdom, we will find it. We talked about the difference between being smart and being wise, most especially that being wise means always thinking!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> The parable in today’s Gospel by St. Matthew, showed young maids who were responsible for lighting the way for the bridegroom. Half of them forgot to bring extra oil so they had to go back to get some. These poor unprepared girls missed the party! Jesus tells us to always do our best to live a good life so that we will always be ready for heaven. </span></div>
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kvanattahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05317185475817453723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844626973453172847.post-65685710927544697832023-11-02T11:06:00.002-04:002023-11-02T11:06:32.052-04:00Changes!<p> Friends! </p><p>Thank you for all your support for the last 23 years! </p><p> </p><p>Can you believe that's how long this program has existed?</p><p>I will leave this site up and free.</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT</p><p><br /></p><p>I will no longer be updating it and compiling the quarterly program.</p><p> </p><p>Please do NOT send me $$$ I will not have a plan to send you and Paypal will charge me a fee to return your money. <br /></p><p> </p><p>I will clean up the site and make sure everything I have written for each cycle / feast day is available. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this doesn't inconvenience you too much.</p><p> </p><p>I appreciate all the support</p><p> </p><p>Kay Vanatta <br /></p>kvanattahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05317185475817453723noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844626973453172847.post-481596772549879242023-10-29T19:15:00.001-04:002023-10-29T19:15:00.154-04:0031st Sunday Ordinary Time A<!--[if !mso]>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today is the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Last week’s symbol was a </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;"><span dir="ltr"></span>10 Commandment tablet</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked about the 3 greatest commandments, which also included all 10 that God gave Moses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We learned that we must first of all love and honor God and then love and honor God’s children.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> Let’s light the candle to show that we are ready to listen to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of Malachi (Malachi 2:8-10).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last week, we heard a letter that St. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. Paul reminded them that the way they acted was an example to other people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever had an experience where someone copied something that you did?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe just saying the same thing, or dressing the same way, or drawing the same picture?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><let the children respond><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it is annoying – sometimes it feels good because you know the person liked what you did.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This shows you that you are an example to others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you do the right thing, sometimes you can help someone else do the right thing too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s reading from the book of Malachi tells about God talking to some of the priests of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen and see if you can understand God’s message.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did God say to the priests?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><he said that they set a bad example, he said that some people turned away from God because of the way they acted><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God wants us to remember that we are all God’s children, God wants us to help others to find him.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Now it is time for the Responsorial Psalm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your part will be to say:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Teach me your ways, O Lord.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say: </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Matthew (Matthew 23:1-12)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus tells the people that the priests are experts about scripture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells the people to listen to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then he says something surprising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to what Jesus said about some leaders.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Read:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">All respond:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glory to you, O Lord.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did Jesus say?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><he said to listen but NOT to do what they do><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes our leaders say one thing but do something different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reminds us that God is our number 1 teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen and learn from others, but always go back to God to help you decide what is right.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religious leaders and teachers are not more important than you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their job is to use their knowledge to help you find God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you are the one who has to pray and read Scripture to hear God’s message to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
children listened to simplified versions of two of the same readings you
did:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Malachi 2:8-10 and Matthew 23:1-12.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In today’s selection from Malachi, we
are reminded that we are an example to others, regardless of how we act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to remember every day that we are
influencing other people with our behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Matthew continues with stories about
Jesus telling about the religious leaders of his time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells us to listen to the experts but not
necessarily do what they do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reminds
us that God is our teacher and it is in God that we find our answers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One of the ways that we learn about
God is to come together each week to hear what God has to tell us and to learn
how to make those words fit into our lives.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*Together with your child, share your
favorite story from the Bible and tell why it is your favorite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*Read the readings again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find a time this week to reread the Sunday
Scriptures and see if you agree on how they apply to your lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*Who do you know that sets a
consistent good example?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think of people
you know who set a Godly example for you and your child to follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Together write a thank you note to that
person for helping lead you to God.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Children’s Liturgy Instructions</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Introduce yourself and your helpers.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today is the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Last week’s symbol was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">number 1</b>. We talked about making sure that God is the Number 1 priority in our lives. Sometimes we get so busy that we forget – but God always remembers us!.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Can anyone tell me what today’s symbol is? <hold up symbol and let children guess> Today’s symbol is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">10 Commandment tablet with hearts on it</b>. What can anyone tell me about the 10 Commandments? <given to Moses by God, rules to live by, maybe mention a few of them, etc.> Why did God give us the 10 Commandments? <because God loves us!> God loves us so much that he wants to make it easy for us to live a good life. God tells us exactly what to do to follow him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say: </b> Today we are going to talk about how easy God makes it for us to be the kind of people he wants us to be.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s take a look at the poster. What does it say? <<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I love you, Lord, my strength.></b> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today. The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What does the word “strength” mean? <let the children respond> It comes from the word “strong”. Is anyone here strong? God helps us to be strong.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s light the candle to show that we are ready to listen to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the first New Testament letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonian people (1 Thessalonians 1:5-8a). Is it easy to be good? <sometimes> If you are good, if you behave the way you are supposed to, what happens to your friends around you? <they see you and sometimes it helps them to be good, too> When we set a good example, others follow. When we listen to God we can help others listen to God too. The reading today is a letter from St. Paul.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Do you remember that St. Paul traveled many places teaching people about Jesus? He would come to a town, teach people and help them get a new church started and then go to the next town. After that St. Paul kept in touch by writing letters. Pretend that you are one of the people who received this letter from St. Paul. Listen to what St. Paul has to say to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Have the reader read the first reading. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What did St. Paul tell you? <let the children respond> St. Paul talks about “telling you the good news”. What is the “good news”? The “good news” is information about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. When we say “good news” today, we are talking about the Gospels.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Now it is time for the Responsorial Psalm. Your part will be to say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I love you, Lord, my strength.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of St. Matthew (Matt 22:34-40) When Jesus was here on earth, he and his family belonged to a church just like you do. He belonged to the Jewish religion. The Jewish religion had a sacred Scripture, words from God – to help them know how to live. This Scripture is part of our Bible too. It is part of what we call the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, we hear that God has told us many things over the years, many ways to live a good life. Often, people misunderstood and did the wrong things anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> One of the things that Jesus came to do was to help us to understand exactly how God wanted us to behave. During Jesus’ lifetime, the important people in Jesus’ church didn’t appreciate what Jesus told everybody. Many times, they tried to trick him into making a big mistake. Today’s reading from St. Matthew tells us about one of those times. The priests tried to make Jesus pick the most important commandment. Let’s hear what Jesus had to say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory and praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">All respond:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Glory to you, O Lord.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Which commandment did Jesus pick? <LOVE> Is LOVE one of the Commandments? <not exactly> How many commandments did God give Moses? <10> Jesus explained all of the commandments by telling how they were all about LOVE. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Your parent letter will list all 10 of the commandments. Look at them carefully. The first 3 commandments are all about loving God. The next 7 commandments are all about loving other people. So Jesus answered the priests truly without saying anything that would get him into trouble with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask the older children to write something on their symbol that they can do this week to show Jesus’ great love for God and others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">If there is time for discussion, try to ask questions and reinforce what has already been discussed. This helps the children to remember what they learned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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The children listened to simplified versions of two of the same readings you did: 1 Thessalonians 1:5-8a and Matthew 22:34-40.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> St. Matthew’s Gospel continues with stories about times when the Jewish priests tried to trick Jesus into saying something that was different from the Jewish teachings. In today’s reading, they asked Jesus to pick the most important Commandment. Remember that God gave Moses 10 commandments – rules to live by. All the Commandments are important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> Jesus explained what the Commandments really meant: they are given in two groups, the first 3 tell us how to honor and love God, the last 7 tell us how to honor and love God’s children (which includes ourselves!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">*Learn the 10 Commandments!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">I am the Lord your God, put no other gods before me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Don’t use God’s name inappropriately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Give God your time one day a week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Don’t take away someone else’s life.</span></div>
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*Love others as you love yourself! Sometimes we forget the SELF part. We can give ourselves love without being selfish (and hurting others) Do something special this week to honor and love yourselves.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask them to get their carpet squares and sit down in a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Introduce yourself and your helpers.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Last week’s symbol was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cake. </b>We talked about the life that God wants for all of us. We discussed that he asks us all to join him but we don’t always say YES!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Today’s symbol is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">number 1</b>. What does it mean to win first place? <to get the highest score, to be first out of all the players> What does it mean “to be Number 1”? <to be the best> Today we are going to talk about who should be Number 1 in our lives.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s take a look at the poster. What does it say? <<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Give the Lord glory and honor.></b> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today. The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Why would we want to give glory and honor to the Lord? <because he made us and all the earth, because God is the strongest> God is AMAZING! We praise people who do important things. Sometimes we give them lots of money and we give them our time. God is that important, too.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 45:4-6). In the selection from the prophet Isaiah, God is talking to a man named Cyrus. God did some wonderful things for Cyrus. God is telling Cyrus (and us!) why we should praise God. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Did you hear any reason why Cyrus should praise God? <God helped him conquer other nations, God helped him remove other kings from power, God made Cyrus strong> Why should we praise God? <let the children respond – Because God helps us to be strong, God gives us people to love us and food to east, God made the world for us, God sent Jesus for us></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Give the Lord glory and honor.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Matthew (Matt 22:15-21) During Jesus’ lifetime, Jews were waiting for the Messiah, a king to make things perfect for them. Many Jews expected the Messiah to be a great warrior who would destroy all the Roman people who were mean to them. These Jews had a really hard time believing that Jesus could possibly be the Messiah. Why do you think that might be? <because Jesus taught about love, because Jesus was kind, because Jesus was born in a poor family, he was not a soldier> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Many times while Jesus was talking and teaching, important Jews would try to trick him and get him to say something that would hurt him or prove him to be a liar. In today’s reading from Matthew, some Jewish priests were trying to get Jesus to say something bad about the Roman ruler, who was called an Emperor. Listen and see what Jesus says to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">All respond:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Glory to you, O Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask the older children to write something on their symbol that they can do this week to put God first in their lives..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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Today is the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The children listened to simplified versions of two of the same readings you did: Isaiah 45:4-6 and Matthew 22:15-21.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">In Matthew, we hear the story of the priests who tried to trick Jesus into criticizing the Roman Emperor. Jesus tells the priests to give the Emperor what is the Emperor’s and to give to God what is God’s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">*Pray about it! Together with your child, make up a prayer to say each morning this week to help remind you who is Number 1 in your lives..</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Last week’s symbol was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">grapes</b>. We talked about the man who owned the vineyard and the people who took advantage of him. They grew the grapes on his land but didn’t give him his fair share. Sometimes we do this too. When we take, we should give back too. God gives us many gifts. We need to repay God by being the best people we can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Today’s symbol is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cake</b>. When do we have cakes? <when there is a party> Can anyone tell me what we do when we want to have a party? <we are happy, we decorate, we ask people to come> When you invite people to a party, how does it make you feel when they say YES? <happy> When they say NO how does it feel? <sad></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s take a look at the poster. What does it say? <<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.></b> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today. The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 25:6-10a). This reading tells us something that God will do for us. Pretend that you are one of the people listening to Isaiah. See if you can hear one thing that the Lord will do for us. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What did you hear? <the Lord will prepare a feast on the mountain, destroy the power of death, wipe away every tear, save the people, protect the mountain> Here is the next question: what does that mean for us? Is the Lord going to come down to earth and make a party like we are thinking of? <probably not – thought with God all things are possible></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s reading is a story about a man who wanted to give a great party. Pretend that you are a Jewish child listening to Jesus tell this story. What do you think this story would mean to you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">All respond:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Glory to you, O Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask the older children to write something on their symbol that they can do this week to say YES! To God’s invitation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">If there is time for discussion, try to ask questions and reinforce what has already been discussed. This helps the children to remember what they learned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">While they are coloring, explain how we will go back into the church, up to the front with our gifts and rejoin our families.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use this graphic for the banner symbol and the large coloring page...... Use a small square for the communal poster</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today is the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The children listened to simplified versions of two of the same readings you did: Isaiah 9:9-16 and Matthew 22:1-10.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Today we talked about God’s love. We talked about different meanings of heaven. We remembered that heaven is a place where we go to be with God after we die. We also talked about heaven being a state of mind, a way to feel when we are very close to God. This kind of heaven is something we can achieve on earth when we say YES and act the way God asks us to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">God wants us all to be happy in his love. He invites us all to be with him. It is our job to remember that God is always close to us offering us a better way to live. </span></div>
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*<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Define heaven!</b> In heaven, all things are perfect. Make a fun list of all the things that will be in your heaven. What can you change in your life to make it more like heaven.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for sharing your children!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome the children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Ask them to get their carpet squares and sit down in a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Today is the 27<sup>th</sup> Sunday in Ordinary Time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ask:</b> Last week’s symbol was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">question mark</b>. We talked about how difficult it sometimes is to decide what is right and what is wrong. We talked about how God is fair and knows what is in our hearts. God wants us to show others love most of all.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s symbol is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">grapes</b>. Can anyone tell something about grapes? <let the children respond> Grapes grow on vines, sometimes in vineyards like we have been discussing for the past few weeks.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">In Biblical times, most people drank wine. Wine is made from grapes. So most people were familiar with the way grapes were grown in vineyards. Just like Jesus used sheep and shepherds in the parables, grapes and vineyards were another teaching tool that Jesus used.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s look at today’s poster. What does it say? <<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.></b> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today. The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We have two readings today.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s light the candle to show that we are ready to listen to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading today is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Isaiah. (Isaiah 5:1-7). In this reading, the prophet Isaiah tells a story like Jesus did. He tells about a friend of his and his vineyard. Pretend that you are hearing the prophet Isaiah for the first time. See if you can understand what he is trying to tell you.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Did you hear what happened? <let the children re-tell the story> What do you think it means? <that the Lord was not pleased with the behavior of the Jewish people> It sounds like he was thinking of a punishment for the people who were sinning against God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s Gospel reading comes from the New Testament book of Matthew. (Matt 21:33-43) In Matthew’s Gospel today, we hear Jesus tell another parable. This one is about a man who owned a vineyard. This man rented it out to some people. Can anyone tell me what the word “RENT” means? <that the people were to farm it and use it like it was their own BUT they had to pay the owner in order to use it> Listen to what happened to the vineyard and to the owner. Think about what you think you might have done if you had been the owner.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">: Now we will stand and get ready to hear the Gospel. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What happened? <let the children discuss> Can anyone tell me what they would have done if they were the owner? <discuss> Jesus tells us that the kingdom of heaven (or eternal life) belongs to those who do God’s will. If we want to be part of that kingdom, we need to behave the way God tells us to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hand out the large Offertory symbols (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">grapes</b>) for the children to color and the smaller symbols (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">circle</b>) for the children to put their names on for the poster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today is the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The children listened to simplified versions of two of the same readings you did: Isaiah 5:1-7 and Matthew 21:33-43.</span></div>
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*Jesus used parables to teach us about God’s love. His parables used things that his listeners were familiar with like sheep and vineyards. Together with your child, make a list of things you think Jesus might use to tell parables to us.</div>
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kvanattahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05317185475817453723noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844626973453172847.post-54113810671019920802023-09-24T08:00:00.001-04:002023-09-24T08:00:00.137-04:0026th Sunday Ordinary Time A<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask them to get their carpet squares and sit down in a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Introduce yourself and your helpers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ask:</b> Can anyone tell me what we talked about last week? <show the symbol of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">coin</b>> We talked about how generous God is to us. He gives us everything even when we don’t deserve it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Today’s symbol is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">question mark</b>. Sometimes things are confusing. Sometimes it is hard to tell right from wrong. Sometimes we don’t think God is fair to us. We’re going to hear some readings today that will help us figure things out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Let’s look at the poster. What does it say? <<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Remember your mercies, O Lord.</b>> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today. The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Ezekiel. (Ezekiel 18:25-28) In this reading, God is talking with Ezekiel. The people of Israel were complaining that God wasn’t fair to them. He answered back in this reading that he is fair. He talks about people living and dying. Listen to the reading and see if you think that God really meant actual life and death or if you think he might mean something else.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What did you hear that tells about life or death? <that if you do what God wants you to do, you will live and if you don’t you will die> We all sin sometimes. When we do wrong, how do we feel inside? Like when you look into your parent’s face after you do something wrong, what does that feel like? <BAD> And what about when you do something that makes your parents happy, how does that make you feel? <GOOD> When you feel good and happy, you feel ALIVE! When we do the right thing, we feel great! And when we hurt others, we feel like we have cut off our happiness. That feels kind of DEAD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Remember your mercies, O Lord.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s Gospel reading is taken from the book of Matthew (Matthew 21:28–32). In the reading today, St. Matthew tells us about another time that Jesus was talking with some of the important people in the Jewish church. He was trying to tell them about how to get to heaven. He told a parable about another vineyard owner. This man had two sons. He wanted both of them to work in the vineyard one day. One of the sons told his father NO and then later changed his mind and did it anyway. The other told his father YES and then decided not to go. Listen to the story and think about which son did what his father asked him to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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Today is the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The children listened to simplified versions of the same readings you did: Ezekiel 18:25-28 and Matthew 20:28-32.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> The readings today talk again about how God is fair to us. The question mark we used as a symbol represents the difficulty we sometimes have figuring out the right thing to do. The Gospel reading in Matthew showed us the difficulty sometimes in deciding what is right and what is wrong. Jesus was using this parable in talking to the high priests to show them that regular people who listened and believed in him would have an easier time getting into heaven than they would. Sometimes we are like the high priest and get so wrapped up in the details of our church that we forget the very simple message that Jesus brought us: LOVE.</span></div>
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kvanattahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05317185475817453723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844626973453172847.post-15161827786787719032023-09-17T08:00:00.001-04:002023-10-27T11:26:16.328-04:00 25th Sunday Ordinary Time A<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today is the 25<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Ordinary Time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Let’s look at the poster. What does it say? <<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lord is near to all who call on him.></b> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today. The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ask:</b> The Lord is near to all who call on him. Does this mean that he is NOT near to everyone? <discuss> Sometimes when we get busy, we don’t think about God very much. When we don’t think about him, God can seem very far away. This psalm reminds us that God will always be close when we pray to him.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Did you hear anything that we have talked about? <forgiveness, that God always forgives us, that God is always near when we call on him></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use this graphic for all 3 applications... small ones of a light yellow color for the communal poster, a medium-sized one from construction paper & a full black & white sheet for the Offertory gift. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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The children listened today to simplified versions of two of the same readings you did: Isaiah 55:6-9 and Matthew 20:1-16a.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">God is always near us. Sometimes we get so busy that we forget about God. Then God seems very far away. Isaiah reminds us that God is waiting for us. All we have to do is call and God is right there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> The parable that we heard today was about a man who owned a vineyard. He needed help with the harvest and hired helpers at different times of the day. The tricky part of this parable comes in when the owner paid all the helpers the same amount of money. Most of us generally believe that this is unfair – and in human terms, it may be. But the owner did in fact pay each worker exactly what he agreed to pay them. God is like that with us. He promises all of us eternal life when we do what he asks whether we begin when we are very young or when we are very old. God is very generous with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> *Be generous! Buy an extra item this week when you buy groceries. Donate it to your local food pantry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> *Do something in your community! Is there something happening in your community that is unfair? Get involved. Write a letter to the appropriate government official or news media to encourage those responsible to fix the problem.</span></div>
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Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome the children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Ask them to get their carpet squares and sit down in a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Introduce yourself and your helpers.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s symbol is some numbers: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">seventy times seven</b>. Last week we talked about what to do when we knew of someone who sinned, who did something wrong. Today, we are going to talk about what comes next.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">What do you think comes next? After you talk to somebody else about something they did wrong, what happens next? <let the children give their answers - forgiveness> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What does forgiveness mean? <it means to let go of the mean feelings in your heart towards that person> Do you think it is easy to forgive someone who has hurt you? <NO – but that is what God asks us to do></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Now we are going to practice the Responsorial Psalm, that part between the readings where you get to help. The Responsorial Psalm comes from the Bible just like our readings do. Today’s psalm is: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lord is kind and merciful.</b> Can you say this with me? <Have the children repeat it.> Psalms were first written as songs, so make sure you say it loudly and clearly.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of Sirach. (Sirach 28:2-5, 6b-7). Has anyone here heard of the Golden Rule? <do to other people what you would want them to do to you> In today’s reading, we will hear how God will treat us. Listen and see if it is the same.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Did you hear how God will treat us? <God will do to us what we do to other people> If we forgive other people, then God will forgive us.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Now is the time for the Responsorial Psalm that we practiced. <have a volunteer hold up the poster> Repeat after me: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lord is kind and merciful.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s Gospel reading comes from the New Testament book of Matthew. (Matt 18:21-35) In the Gospel today, we hear Jesus talk about forgiveness. St. Peter asked Jesus how many times they had to forgive people who hurt them. He asked if 7 times was enough. Listen to the parable Jesus told Peter and see if you can hear how many times we need to forgive each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Have the reader begin: “a reading from the holy gospel….”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Did you hear how many times we are supposed to forgive each other? <70 times 7></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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Today is the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The children listened to simplified versions of two of the same readings you heard: Sirach 28:2-5 and Matthew 18:21-35.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> In Sirach, we hear that God will forgive our sins, if we forgive others. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells a teaching story, aparable, that says the same thing. God will treat us the way that we treat others. St. Peter asked Jesus how many times to forgive others. Jesus made it clear with his answer of 70 times 7, that forgiveness is limitless. We must continually forgive others so that God will continually forgive us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> *Show God’s mercy! Is there someone in your life that needs your forgiveness? Do you need to show forgiveness to someone?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> *Be forgiven! Take advantage of the sacrament of Reconciliation this week so that you will feel renewed by God’s grace.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s symbol <hold up symbol> is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">person and a heart</b>. What does the heart make you think of? <love> We are the people and what did Jesus ask us to do? <LOVE> Jesus gave us the two greatest commandments that have to do with love. Who are we supposed to love? <#1. Love God. #2. Love each other.></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Repeat after me: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Parents,</span></div>
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Today we celebrate the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. The children listened to simplified versions of two of the same readings you did: Ezekiel 33:7-9 and Matthew 18:15-17.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> Today’s we discovered how much Jesus wants us to help one anther to obey Him and do the right thing. We are ultimately only responsible for our own actions, but in the reading from Ezekiel, God asked Ezekiel (and, therefore, US) to be a watchman for each other. He says that it is our job to help each other follow God’s laws. Jesus tells us exactly how to handle a situation where we know that someone has sinned. He reminds us to go to that person in private first.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">*Think it through together! Together with your child, think of some things that you know have gone wrong between you, some examples of times when you may have sinned against one another. Talk about ways that the situations were handled and think up some better ways for next time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> *Pray about it! With your child, think of some people you know who have done things that have hurt you. Ask God to help these people learn more about him.</span></div>
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kvanattahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05317185475817453723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844626973453172847.post-80901872148472635852023-08-27T08:00:00.002-04:002023-08-27T08:00:00.142-04:00 22nd Sunday Ordinary Time A<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome the children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Ask them to get their carpet squares and sit down in a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Explain:</b> Today is the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. What can anyone tell me about Ordinary Time? <it is one of the church seasons, the color is always green> Does anyone know what the next season will be and what it is called? <The next season is Advent and usually begins in November></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Does anyone remember what the symbol for last Sunday was? <a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">church on a rock</b>> And what did it represent? <It represented Jesus’ church built on a strong foundation.> Peter was the strong person Jesus chose to lead the church and help build it. Our job is to carry on Peter’s work.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading today is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 20:7-9). In this reading Jeremiah is not happy about being God’s servant. He sounds pretty upset with God. Listen to what Jeremiah prays to God.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Now is the time for the Responsorial Psalm that we practiced. <have a volunteer hold up the poster> Repeat after me: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My soul is thirsting for you, my Lord and my God.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Now it’s time to read the Gospel. Today’s Gospel reading comes from the New Testament book of Matthew. (Matthew 16:21-25:) This reading tells us about a time that Jesus told his disciples how he was going to die. Do you remember how that happened? <met with Pilate, he was turned over to the Jews, he was crucified on the cross, etc.> Peter could not understand why Jesus would allow such a horrible thing to happen to him. Peter knew that Jesus was God and that he could stop the people from killing him. Listen closely and hear what Jesus told Peter.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What did Jesus say to Peter? <Satan, get away from me!> Jesus called Peter Satan! The man he would choose to lead his church, Jesus called him Satan. Why do you think he did that? <Peter was tempting Jesus not to follow God’s will. Peter was trying to get Jesus to save himself instead of listening to God> Did Jesus really think that Peter was Satan? <no> But sometimes even the best people get in the way of God’s will. People don’t think like God thinks. And that is Satan’s work.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use this graphic for all 3 symbols..... cut out in light colors for the community poster, create a mid-sized symbol for the banner out of stiff paper or cardboard, and copy full page-size copies in black & white to color and use for the Offertory gift.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time A</span></h1>
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Today is the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. The children listened to simplified versions of two of the same readings you did: Jeremiah 20:7-9 and Matthew 16:21-25.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Introduce yourself and your helpers.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Last week’s symbol was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">globe</b>. We talked about God existing for everyone in the world – not just us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> (Hold up the symbol) Can anyone tell me what today’s symbol is? <a church> What do you think that this church is sitting on? <rock> That’s right – our symbol for today is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">church on top of a rock</b>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the letter of St. Paul to the Romans. (Romans 11:33-36). St. Paul reminds us today that all knowledge comes from God. We are simply human and make lots of human mistakes. When we are trying hard to do what God asks, we are supported by all God’s wisdom. God makes us stronger than we think we are. Let’s hear what St. Paul wrote to the Romans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord, your love is eternal.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Matthew (Matt 16:13-20) In today’s reading, Jesus is walking along with his disciples. Jesus asked them what the people were saying about him. Then Jesus pushed a little further and asked the disciples what they thought about him. One mans answered. Let’s listen to their conversation and see who answered and what happened next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory and praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">21<sup>st</sup> Sunday of Ordinary Time A</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Today is the 21<sup>st</sup> Sunday of Ordinary Time. Your children listened to two of the same readings you did: Romans 11:33-36 and Matthew 16:13-20.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> In St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, we are reminded that all of our knowledge and our faith comes from God. We do not believe all by ourselves. We need God’s help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Matthew recounts a story of a time when Jesus was walking along with his disciples. Jesus questioned them about who they thought he really was. Peter spoke up telling Jesus that he believed that Jesus was the Messiah. Jesus was pleased and told Peter that he had been blessed. Jesus told Peter that God had revealed this information to Peter. Jesus then placed the responsibility of leading his church upon Peter. It was Peter’s faith that gave the Church its initial foundation. It is the faith of all of us and our church leaders that provide its foundation today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> *How strong is your faith? Together with your child, talk about the things that you do to keep your faith strong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask them to get their carpet squares and sit down in a circle.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Last week’s symbol was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water</b>. We talked about recognizing God in the world and how much easier it is to recognize God if your faith is strong!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Isaiah. (Isa 56:1, 6-7). Does anyone remember hearing stories about how the Jews are the ‘chosen people of God’? Many of the readings we hear in both the Old Testament and the New Testament mention this. Traditionally the Jewish people felt that what this meant was that God would ignore the prayers and problems of people who were not Jewish. The reading from Isaiah gives us a different thought. Let’s hear what the prophet Isaiah proclaimed.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Matthew (Matt 15:21-28) Today’s reading tells us about a woman who wanted Jesus to help her daughter. Think back to a time when Jesus walked on earth. Remember all the things we have heard about the coming of Jesus – how he was of the line of David, how he was the messiah, and how the messiah came to save the Jewish people. Remember that Jesus himself was a member of the Jewish faith. Now imagine that you are part of the crowd following Jesus. You are a Jew and you are feeling pretty special about this wonderful new teacher named Jesus. A woman from Cana comes up to him asking him to help her sick daughter. This woman is a stranger, not Jewish. Let'’ listen now and find out what happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory and praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Today is the 20<sup>th</sup> Sunday in Ordinary Time. The children listened to two of the same readings you did: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 and Matthew 15:21-28.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The readings today tell us that God is available to all nations. God relies on our faith to bring us to him. It doesn’t matter where you live or who you are, if you believe in God, then God is there for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> *</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Check it out! Get a globe or a map and choose a country to learn more about. Draw the flag, eat a dish from that country, learn a few words of the language. Emphasize to your child that the people in this country are also children of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> *Watch the news! There are many events, both good and bad, happening all over the world. Together with your child, choose a country to say a prayer for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Today’s symbol is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water</b>. Last week we talked about God taking care of us. We talked about following Jesus’ example of putting others’ needs before our own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Today we are going to talk about a very important idea, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">believing</b> that God will take care of us. It is one thing to say that God will take care of our needs. It is a whole other idea to actually believe that it will happen.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Why do you think the disciples were afraid when they saw Jesus walking on the water? <because they knew that no one can walk on water – maybe they thought they were seeing a ghost> Peter recognized Jesus. What happened next? <Peter walked on water> Peter was the leader and tried to determine if what they saw was really Jesus. Why do you think that Peter was able to walk on water? <Because he believed that Jesus would take care of him> Why do you think that Peter sank? <because he started thinking that he couldn’t walk on water></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Peter started thinking that what he was doing was impossible. While he simply believed, he could walk on water. When he started thinking about it, he stopped believing in the power of Jesus. Sometime the things that we must do to follow Jesus are much harder than what we think we can do. We must truly believe that God will take care of us. Then we have the strength and the ability to do whatever God wants us to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask the older children to write something on their symbol that they can do this week that is hard but that they know is right.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use this graphic to create the mid-sized banner symbol. Blue construction paper covered with plastic wrap makes an impressive symbol.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use this graphic full-size on a page so that the children can color it to bring to the Offertory.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Parent Letter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">19th Sunday of Ordinary Time A</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Parents,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Today is the 19<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Ordinary Time. The children listened to two of the same readings you did: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a and Matthew 14:22-33.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">To reinforce at home:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The readings today remind us that we need to pay attention to recognize God in our lives. Elijah expected God to appear in the great wind and then looked for him in the mighty earthquake – yet God used the quiet stillness to come forward. Elijah needed to believe strongly that God was coming and that he needed to pay attention to recognize God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> In the Gospel account today, we can imagine the tired disciples on the boat in the middle of a huge lake. Near dawn they see (or think they see) Jesus walking across the water toward them. They struggled to believe hat it was really Jesus and not a figment of their imaginations. Peter showed that he believed and with Jesus’ help was able to do the impossible. His only problem came in when he stopped believing that Jesus was with him. We can do anything that God asks of us IF we believe God will be with us to make it possible.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Activities to do at home:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> *</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Believe in the impossible! Together with your child, think of one thing you know you should do but just don’t believe that you can. Pray for strength and guidance, step out in faith and begin!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> *Make a game! Practice listening with your child for God in your life. Discuss with each other each time this week that you experience God. Some examples would be when you know in your heart the right thing to do, when you see the smile of a child, or when a song on the radio hits you and gives you a message you need to hear.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> *Try something new! Think up a new activity to try this week and do it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for sharing your children!</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;">Introduce</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial;"></span></h3>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Today’s symbol <hold up the symbol> is a </span><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">white cloud with bright sun rays behind it</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">. It represents the wonderful new life that God has promised to us.</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Say:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s light the candle to show that we are ready to listen to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">The Lord is king, the most high over all the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask them to get their carpet squares and sit down in a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Introduce yourself and your helpers.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today is the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Last week’s symbol was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">scale</b>. We talked about judging others. Can anyone tell me who is the final judge of others’ behavior? <God> Whose behavior should we ourselves judge? <our own></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Today’s symbol is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">treasure</b>. What is treasure? <gold, silver, anything we really value> Who wants treasure? <we all do!> What we are going to find out about today is treasure!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s take a look at the poster. What does it say? <<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord, you are good and forgiving.></b> This is our Responsorial Psalm for today. The Responsorial Psalms also come from Scripture, from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of First Kings (1 Kings 3:5, 7-12). Today’s reading is about a king named Solomon. Has anyone ever heard of him? What can you tell me about Solomon? <let the children discuss> Solomon was known as a very wise king. He was very smart and very kind to people. In this reading, we hear about a time when God offered Solomon anything that he wanted. Listen closely and see if you can hear what Solomon asked for.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Now it is time for the Responsorial Psalm. Your part will be to say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord, you are good and forgiving.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Matthew (Matt 13:44-46) What would you do if you found a treasure in someone else’s yard? What might you do to make sure that the treasure would be yours? <discuss> This is what today’s reading is about. Jesus is teaching something with a story. Does anyone remember what the word is for a teaching story? <PARABLE> Let’s pretend that we are some of the people who are listening to Jesus. Let’s see if we can figure out what the treasure is that he is talking about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory and praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">All respond:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Glory to you, O Lord.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> What is the treasure that Jesus is talking about? <heaven> What should we do to gain the treasure of heaven? <anything that we have to do!> Does this mean that we can make a one-time decision and know that we will get into heaven? <discuss></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Today is the 5<sup>th</sup> Sunday in the Easter season. The children listened to two of the same readings you did: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Kings 3:5, 7-12 and Matthew 13:44-46.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome children to their worship space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say:</b> Today’s symbol is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">scale</b>. What is a scale for? <it is for measuring or weighing> Where do you find scales? <at a doctor’s office, in a grocery store> Why would we weigh something? <to find out how heavy it is> Why do we care how heavy objects are? <discuss></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say: </b> We are gathering information about something to make a decision. A doctor would decide about the health of a person. In a grocery store, you decide about buying food. Our readings today follow the readings of last week. We will be talking about crops and harvest, but our message is about a word called JUDGMENT. Can anyone tell me what JUDGMENT is? <deciding whether people are good or bad> Whose job is it to JUDGE people? <God’s job!></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of Wisdom (Wis 12:13, 16-19). We know that God is all powerful. We trust in God’s justice and mercy. We trust that God will judge us fairly. In this reading, we also hear something about how we, God’s people, should act if we want to do good. Listen closely to the reading and see if you can hear what it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord, you are good and forgiving.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Say: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Matthew (Matt 13:24-30) Matthew brings us another parable to go along with the one from last week. Last week we talked about seed being scattered in different places and what happened to them. Today we hear about some seeds which grow very well, both good crops and weeds. The question is: what do we do when it is time to harvest the crop? Pretend that you are a child listening to Jesus tell the story. Remember that a PARABLE is a teaching story. See if you can find out who the plants are and who the farmer is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> Today is the 16<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Ordinary Time. The children listened to two of the same readings you did: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jeremiah 20:10-12a, 13 and Matthew 13:24-30.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> Matthew’s Gospel reading tells the parable of the farmer who planted good seed and had an enemy come in and plant weeds. Once the plants were growing, the farmer could do nothing without hurting the good crops. The solution is that the farmer waits until harvest time to separate the plants. God will do that with us too. He will allow us to exercise free will on this earth – for good and bad – and God will make the final judgment about us at the end of our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s symbol is a </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">seed</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">. What do you know about seeds? <they grow into plants></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Let’s light the candle to show that we are ready to listen to the Word of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Today’s first reading is from the Old Testament book of the prophet Isaiah (Isa 55:10-11). In the selection from Isaiah, we hear about rain and snow falling to the earth. Do rain and snow have anything to do with the seeds we are talking about today? <they provide the necessary water to help the seeds germinate> Does anyone know what a comparison is, what it means to compare things? <to see how two things are alike> Listen closely to what Isaiah says and see if you can hear what he compares the rain and snow to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Ask:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Isaiah compared rain and snow to something completely different. Did anyone hear what it was> <his words> How are Isaiah’s words to the people he spoke with like rain and snow to the seeds? <rain and snow fall to the earth and help the seeds grow. People listen to Isaiah’s words and grow in knowledge of God></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say: </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Now it is time for the Responsorial Psalm. Your part will be to say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">The seeds that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say: </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Today’s Gospel reading comes from the book of Matthew (Matt 13:1-9) Today we hear Matthew telling us about one of the PARABLES that Jesus told. Can anyone tell me what a PARABLE is? <a teaching story> Jesus taught many things using PARABLES. Today’s PARABLE is about a farmer. I’ll bet you can guess what the farmer was doing! <planting seeds> He was planting using a method called SOWING. (Swing your arm in a wide circle like the farmer would scatter seed.) The seeds fell in different places and grew in differing ways. Keep in mind Isaiah’s comparison about the rain and the snow and listen to this PARABLE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say: </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Now we will get ready to hear the Gospel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Alleluia! Alleluia!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">All respond:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Glory to you, O Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> When the farmer scattered the seed, where did it fall and what happened? <along road – eaten by birds, rocky ground, sprouted but didn’t have strong roots, thornbushes – grew but got choked out, good soil – produced a lot of food> Did anyone hear what the seed was compared to? <to what Jesus said, Jesus’ words></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Say:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Jesus used the same comparison as Isaiah did. If Jesus was talking about his words falling in the places where the seeds fell, what might that mean? <along the road – people who don’t listen at all, rocky ground – people who hear but can’t (or won’t) apply it, thornbushes – those whose lives are so crowded (by necessity or by choice) that they can’t apply Jesus’ message, and those who listen and take the message to heart and grow> We all have to choose what kind of soil we want to be and work hard to be there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ask the older children to write something on their symbol that they can do this week to be good soil. Write down ONE behavior that they can change this week to apply Jesus’ message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Today is the 15</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> Sunday in Ordinary Time. The children listened to two of the same readings you did: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Isaiah 55:10-11 and Matthew 13:1-9.</span></div>
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