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.

4th Sunday of Easter

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

In today’s reading Jesus tells us a parable in which he is the gate which takes us to God. But can you remember what Jesus says right at the end of today’s gospel? - Jesus says, “I have come so that you might have life – life in all its fullness.”

What do you think it means to have life in all its fullness? Living life to the full doesn’t mean having all the latest toys or the coolest clothes or the biggest house. And it doesn’t mean just having all the things we need in life, like enough food to eat and somewhere safe to live, although this is a really important part of living life to the full.

It also means being the best person we can be, living our lives well and having the chance to use our gifts and talents for the good of all. What gifts and talents do you have? What are you good at? Do you always make the most of the gifts that you have? Do you always try to be the best person you can be?

Let’s do all that we can this week to live our lives to the full – doing all that we can to be the best people we can be and using our gifts and talents for the good of others.

And let’s do all that we can to help others to live their lives to the full too – people here who we see every day and our brothers and sisters around the world.

What will you do this week to live life to the full and to help others to do the same?

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

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