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.

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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

Jesus’ friends are afraid and don’t know what to do. They feel that they aren’t very important and that God may not look after them.

Jesus looks at the world around him and sees God watching over everything, even tiny birds like sparrows. Have you ever seen sparrows? What do they look like?

When you look at the world, what else can you see that might remind you of God’s love for us all?

Jesus tells his friends that they are worth more than many sparrows. If we ever feel afraid, we can remember those sparrows in the gospel, or some of the other things we have mentioned, and be reminded that God loves us even more.

Jesus says that, because God is looking after them, his friends need not be afraid to speak up and tell everybody about Jesus and the things he said.

Can you remember some the things Jesus said, that it would be good for us tell other people? He said that we should try to love our neighbours as we love ourselves. Anything else?

We all need help sometimes. We cannot do everything on our own.

God loves us all and so we are called to take care of one another, to love one another, no matter where in the world we are.

Can you try to remember that God loves you this week? Can you be brave and try to share that love with others just like the disciples?

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