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.

Feast of All Saints (Year C)

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

What do you remember from today’s reading?

Today we hear Jesus telling us exactly what kind of person he wants us to be, and the kind of person that he has special love and care for. Can you remember what he says?

Here they are again. Listen carefully and see if you can think of anyone who these remind you of.

Happy are the poor in spirit.
Happy are those who are sad.
Happy are the humble and gentle.
Happy are those who want to do what God asks of them.
Happy are those who show mercy to others.
Happy are the pure and good.
Happy are those who work for peace.
Happy are those who are laughed at, picked on or hurt because of what they believe.

We all know people who live like this – who really follow Jesus in their lives. It might be someone well known, who lots of people have heard of. Or it might be a friend or family member. Let’s just think quietly about them for a moment.

We know there have been lots of saints in our world too. These are people who have lived their lives as God has asked them to. How many saints can you think of? Can you tell me some of their names?

Saint Oscar Romero was the Archbishop of San Salvador, in a country in Latin America called El Salvador. He worked for peace and stood up for what was right in a time of great violence in his country. He was on the side of people who were poor and tried to change things to make his country a more peaceful and fairer place.

Saint Romero made the people in power in his country very angry by pointing out what they were doing wrong. So, he was killed while he was saying Mass. How do you think Saint Romero followed what Jesus asked of him?

Perhaps this week we can try particularly hard to remember what it is that Jesus asks of us. Perhaps you could choose to try and be one of the types of people that Jesus says will be happy this week: gentle and humble, merciful, pure and good, peaceful, doing what is right. Or perhaps you could show special care to those who are sad, laughed at, hurt or poor.

Will you try to be gentle? Will you try to be merciful? Will you try to bring peace? How will you do these things in the coming 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