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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 17, 20243 min read
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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 to oversee the building of the...
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May 17, 20244 min read
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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 17, 20243 min read
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Ascension (Ages 3-6): We Want To Know
Mark 16.15-20Â (for the youngest child, just verses 19-20) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is the seventh Sunday of the...
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May 10, 20242 min read
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Ascension (Ages 6-9): Signs of the Kingdom
Mark 16.15-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is the last Sunday of the Easter season. We know that for forty days...
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May 10, 20243 min read
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Ascension of the Lord (Ages 9-12): Signs of the Spirit
Mark 16.15-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Soon we will reach the end of the forty-nine days of the Easter season and will...
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May 10, 20243 min read
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6th Sunday of Easter (Ages 3-6): Living in Joy
John 15.9-17 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We keep thinking about what Jesus says about himself. Jesus says he is the Good Shepherd...
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May 3, 20242 min read
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6th Sunday of Easter (Ages 6-9): That Same Love
John 15.9-17 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus continues the parable of the True Vine. Last week,...
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May 3, 20242 min read
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6th Sunday of Easter (Ages 9-12): Fruit of the Kingdom
John 15.9-17 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday picks up where it ended last Sunday. Jesus continues the...
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May 3, 20243 min read
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5th Sunday of Easter (Ages 3-6): Jesus' Family
John 15.1-8 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus sounds like he plays a game with us. I am the vine,...
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Apr 26, 20242 min read
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5th Sunday of Easter (Ages 6-9): Meno in Me
John 15.1-8 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, we hear Jesus tell part of the parable of the True Vine....
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Apr 26, 20243 min read
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5th Sunday of Easter (Ages 9-12): Joy in the Vine
John 15.1-8 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last week, we heard part of the parable of the Good Shepherd. This week we hear part of...
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Apr 26, 20245 min read
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Good Shepherd Sunday (Ages 3-6): Knows and Loves
John 10.11-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection When we listen to the Bible, we hear about people following Jesus. Some of these people...
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Apr 19, 20242 min read
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Good Shepherd Sunday (Ages 6-9): The Gift That Gathers
John 10.11-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection For many of us, the parable of the Good Shepherd is one of our favourites. When the...
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Apr 19, 20243 min read
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Good Shepherd Sunday (Ages 9-12): Laying Down
John 10.11-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection For three weeks we have heard about the Risen Jesus appearing to his disciples. Over...
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Apr 19, 20243 min read
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3rd Sunday of Easter (Ages 3-6): Real Peace
Luke 24.35-48 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Jesus died on the cross, but now he is Risen to new life never to die again. This is...
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Apr 12, 20243 min read
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3rd Sunday of Easter (Ages 6-9): Heaven and Earth Meet
Luke 24.35-48 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that Easter is not just one day, but a whole season—seven Sundays long! We have...
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Apr 12, 20244 min read
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3rd Sunday of Easter (Ages 9-12): Our Redeemer Lives
Luke 24.35-48 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last week we heard St. John's account of the Risen Jesus appearing to the disciples who...
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Apr 12, 20244 min read
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2nd Sunday of Easter (Ages 3-6): Be Still and Know
John 20:19-22 (full reading John 20:19-31) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that early in the morning, after Jesus rises from...
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Apr 5, 20242 min read
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2nd Sunday of Easter (Ages 6-9): Contagious
John 20:19-23 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday actually begins on the evening of the day that Jesus rises...
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Apr 5, 20242 min read
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2nd Sunday of Easter (Ages 9-12): A New Creation of Community
John 20:19-31 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel reading for this second Sunday of Easter has two parts. It begins on the...
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Apr 5, 20244 min read
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Easter Sunday (Ages 3-6): The First One To Know
John 20:1-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that Jesus died on the cross and now he is Risen to new life, never to die...
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Mar 30, 20243 min read
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Easter Sunday (Ages 6-9): Truth and Understanding
John 20:1-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that when Jesus is born, a new moment begins in the History of the Kingdom of...
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Mar 30, 20243 min read
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Easter Sunday (Ages 9-12): Things Seen and Unseen
John 20:1-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection For many of us, this is a favourite Gospel passage. However, the closer we look at it,...
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Mar 30, 20245 min read
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