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Jul 7, 20233 min read
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): What Do Children Know?
Matthew 11.25-30 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last Sunday, we listened to Jesus tell his disciples how important children are, how...
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Jul 7, 20233 min read
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Invitation and Promise
Matthew 11.25-30 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, we hear an invitation and a promise. Jesus speaks to...
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Jul 7, 20232 min read
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 9-12): Ploughing Together
Matthew 11.25-30 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus speaks of carrying burdens. He knows people...
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Jul 1, 20232 min read
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): Comfortable in Our Home
Matthew 10.37-42 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last Sunday we heard Jesus tell the disciples that they are more special than...
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Jul 1, 20233 min read
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): The Right Order of Loving
Matthew 10.37-42 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last Sunday, when we heard Jesus preparing his disciples to go out to teach about...
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thebetterpart
Jul 1, 20232 min read
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 9-12): Welcoming and Being Welcomed
Matthew 10.37-42 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last Sunday, when we heard Jesus preparing his disciples to go out to teach, we...
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Jun 24, 20232 min read
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): More Special Than Sparrows
Matthew 10.26-33 (for the youngest children, simply verses 29-31) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that Jesus has many...
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Jun 24, 20232 min read
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): To Reveal the Hidden
Matthew 10.26-33 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the reading for this Sunday, Jesus prepares his disciples to go out into the...
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Jun 24, 20233 min read
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 9-12): Acknowledged
Matthew 10.26-33 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday, we hear Jesus preparing his disciples to go out into the world to...
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thebetterpart
Jun 17, 20232 min read
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): Jesus Knows and Understands
Matthew 9.36 - 10.8 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Wherever Jesus goes, people follow–crowds of people, so many people! They want so...
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thebetterpart
Jun 17, 20233 min read
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Friendship with Jesus
Matthew 9.36 - 10.8 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that Jesus has a group of twelve people close to him. Sometimes the...
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Jun 17, 20233 min read
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 9-12): Gifts for Kingdom Work
Matthew 9.36 - 10.8 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection During Jesus' time on earth, he speaks often about the Kingdom of God. He shows...
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Jun 10, 20232 min read
The Body and Blood of Christ (Ages 3-6): I AM the Living Bread
John 6.51-59 (full reading). For the youngest child, we read only verse 51. Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that Jesus says...
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Jun 10, 20233 min read
The Body and Blood of Christ (Ages 6-9): Bread For Abiding
John 6.51-59 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday has a great long name: The SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF...
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thebetterpart
Jun 10, 20234 min read
The Body and Blood of Christ (Ages 9-12): God Feeds
John 6.51-59 and the first reading: Deuteronomy 8.2-3, 14-16 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is the SOLEMNITY OF THE...
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Jun 3, 20232 min read
Trinity Sunday (Ages 3-6): Who Are You, God?
John 3.16-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, we hear Jesus speaking to a man named Nicodemus. ...
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Jun 3, 20232 min read
Trinity Sunday (Ages 6-9): What God Did, God Does
John 3.16-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is called Trinity Sunday. We say that God is Trinity—One God, three Persons....
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Jun 3, 20234 min read
Trinity Sunday (Ages 9-12): The Syrup of God
John 3.16-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is Trinity Sunday and our Church asks us to stop and think for a while about...
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May 27, 20233 min read
Pentecost Sunday (Ages 3-6): Together
Acts 2.1-11 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is a new feast. We celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. We call this...
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May 27, 20233 min read
Pentecost Sunday (Ages 6-9): Tongues As of Fire
Acts 2.1-11 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last week, we heard about Jesus ascending into heaven and telling the disciples to...
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May 27, 20233 min read
Pentecost Sunday (Ages 9-12): Each of Us
Acts 2.1-11 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is Pentecost, when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit to the...
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May 20, 20232 min read
Ascension Sunday (Ages 3-6): Disciples
Matthew 28.16-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that after Jesus dies and rises to new life, never to die again, he spends...
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May 20, 20233 min read
Ascension Sunday (Ages 6-9): Not Another Death
Matthew 28.16-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection On Ascension Sunday, or the Feast of the Ascension, we celebrate the moment in...
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thebetterpart
May 20, 20233 min read
Ascension Sunday (Ages 9-12): I-With You-Am
Matthew 28.16-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection On Ascension Sunday, or the Feast of the Ascension, we celebrate the moment in...
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