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.

First Sunday of Lent

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

Jesus spent a long time in the desert. Do you know what a desert is?

It is a place with very little rain, where there is no water to drink and plants cannot grow. After Jesus spent time in the desert, he was hungry. Have you ever been hungry? What did it feel like?

Then Jesus had to make some choices. First, he had the choice to either rely on God or turn stones to bread. Even though he was very hungry, Jesus chose to trust in God.

Jesus was also offered all the kingdoms of the world if he turned away from God. It must have been very tempting to choose all the riches of all the kingdoms and to have power over them. But Jesus chose not to turn away from God.

Why do you think Jesus said no when he was tempted?

Jesus is God’s son. He knows that riches and power can never be as important as God’s love.

We can make really good choices, like Jesus did. We can choose to do what is right even when it is hard. Like standing up for someone in the playground, or pointing out when others are being mean. Or sharing when we’d really like to keep things to ourselves.

Lent is a time when we try to turn back to God. We say sorry for the things that we have done wrong and we try to make a change to live like God wants us to.

This Lent, let’s think about how we can make good choices – just like Jesus did in the desert – even when we find it hard.

What good choices will you try to make 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