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.

Pentecost Sunday (Year B)

Gospel reflection: What do you remember from the reading you heard today? 

Suddenly the room that the disciples were sitting in is filled with the sound of a strong wind. Then the disciples are filled with the Holy Spirit. They go outside to tell people about Jesus and everyone can understand them – even people from far away who speak a different language! How do you think this happens?

Why do you think Jesus gave the Holy Spirit to the disciples? What difference do you think the Holy Spirit made to them?

We cannot see the Holy Spirit, like we can see each other. The Holy Spirit is like the wind. We cannot see the wind, but we can certainly feel it on a windy day. We can see the leaves moving in the trees because of the wind, or a kite flying high in the sky. The wind can be very strong and powerful. 

Can you think of any other ways that you can see the wind? Can you think of ways in which the wind is helpful? for example, windmills, sailing boats etc. 

Just like the wind, we can see the effects of the Holy Spirit. Can you think of how we might see the Holy Spirit moving in our world?

The Holy Spirit can work through us when we are kind to our family and friends, when we think about other people around the world, and when we work together with people who need our help. Can you think of the last time you did any of these things?

The Holy Spirit can also give us courage to speak out, just like the disciples in today’s readings. Can you think of a time when it might be difficult to say what you really think? We can see that the world is not a very fair place. Many children do not have enough food to eat or clean water to drink. What do you think you could do about that?

During Lent this year, hundreds of children in England, Wales and Scotland took part in something called the Big Lent Walk. This meant walking loads of steps to raise money to help people in poor parts of the world.  

These children love helping others and really did their best. This is an example of how the Holy Spirit can work through people like you and me, as we carry out Jesus’ teaching in all that we do. 

What will you do this week to show the effects of the Holy Spirit in your life?

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