Children’s Liturgy

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

The children of the parish are invited to celebrate the Liturgy of The Word with their own catechists at Sunday morning Mass. Offering the children a Liturgy of The Word, which is suited to their age and adapted to their stage of development, can become one of the key ways of helping them grow in faith.

The children gather in the church and begin the Mass with everyone else. After the Sign of the Cross and the Greeting, the Priest calls the children forward, presents them with a Bible and the adult leaders process with the children to the “upper room”. The children come back into church at the offertory, where they display what they have done and then some of them take part in the Offertory procession.
This is not a closed group – all primary school age children in the church are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Third Sunday of Easter

Gospel reflection: What do you remember from today’s reading?

Two followers of Jesus are walking along on their way to a place called Emmaus. Jesus was crucified two days before and the men are confused because the women have just come back from Jesus’ tomb saying that it is empty.

Why was Jesus’ tomb empty?

The two followers meet another man along the road and they walk with him. Who do you think this man was? Did they recognise him?

The man explains the Scriptures to them so that they can understand that Jesus is risen from the dead. Do the followers recognise him now?

Finally, they persuade the man to come and eat with them. What happens at the meal?

The man takes the bread, blesses it, breaks it and shares it with his friends. Suddenly they realise who it is. Why do you think they recognise Jesus now? Can you think of another time that Jesus broke, blessed and shared the bread?

We are all made in the image of God and Jesus is in each and every person, but often we forget this. We do not always take the time to recognise how special and important each person is.

But our eyes can be opened, just like the disciples in this story. If we take the time to get to know others, to share food with them, perhaps we will come to see Christ in these people, our brothers and sisters, who are part of God’s family around the world.

What will you do to show that you believe in Jesus this week?

Parents, grandparents and guardians, please feel free to share today’s Gospel with your children and grandchildren alongside the activities.

Look below for fun colouring pages and puzzles