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Ordinary Time - cycle A - Director: P.Celerino Anciano o.p. Text and design : Sister Teresa Castaño m.a.r. Translated by: Ana María Diaz,  Eleazar González and Family

11º Ordinary Time		En ESPAÑOL
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11º Ordinary Time - cycle A -

Theme:

Jesus invites us to give freely what we have received

• Objetive :

Interiorize that we have received many gifts without earning them and that is why we who follow Jesus should give what we have without expecting any reward.

•  Environment:

Place on the wall, so that all can see, the names of the members of the missionary childhood . On the notice board place the names of the 12 Apostles with Jesus in the center.

• 1- Greeting

Dear children: Jesus, today, unites us again so that we might be gathered as a group of friends. While we grow to know him, we will also understand his message and our capability to collaborate with Him.

• 2- Revision of commitment.

-Last week we learned the 6th commandment of the childhood missionary.

-Who has put it into practice? Did we remember to pray for the children and young people to reply to the invitation of Jesus?

• 3- Prayer.

Dear Jesus: We have seen our names on  the walls of the room and the names of the Apostols around your name. You counted on them for the mission of going to the towns of Israel; you count on us so that we can be messengers of your love with the people with whom we live and encounter every day. We give you thanks because to you we are capable of doing something great, because you love and help us in every moment. Thank you. Amen.

• 4- Activity.

Carry some newspapers or magazines in which there are photos of groups or a multitude of people. The children should choose one or more cutouts and affix them in their exercise books. Then a sheet of cardboard is handed out on which Jesus will be drawn, a cutout will be made and affixed on the cutouts of the newspapers and/or magazines.

• 5- Gospel

Our task of today has a lot to do with the message of the word of God, that is why let us listen attentively to Matthew 9, 36-10,8

And when he saw the crowds he felt sorry for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples,  'The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest'. He summoned his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to cast them out and to cure all kinds of diseases and sickness. These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, the one who was to betray him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them as follows: 'Do not turn your steps to pagan territory, and do not enter any Samaritan town; go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. And as you go, proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is close at hand. Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils. You received without charge, give without charge.

6- Reflexion

-Why did Jesus feel compassion towards the multitude?

-What did Jesus tell us to do?

-Where did Jesus send his disciples?

-What power did Jesus give to his disciples?

7- Enlightenment

Jesus realized the mission that the Father had entrusted Him, and also showed his disciples they should continue that mission. We as Jesus' friends and disciples, know that we must continue the mission of Jesus. Jesus compares the people who goes throughout the world without knowing Him to sheep without shepherd: confused, dispersed, afraid, sad, without a goal in life and the world is like an immense field where the harvest has given fruit but there are too few labourers to gather the harvest. So that these fruits are not lost, Jesus tells us to pray to the owner of the harvest so that he might send workers to harvest. There are many who say that they follow Jesus but do not work and there are others who are willing to work but don't know how to orientate their lives to help in the mission of Jesus. Our prayers together with our work is very important because God the Father listens to us and sees that our desire is that his Kingdom spreads to every corner of the world. Jesus also tells us that what we have is not because we have acquired it by our efforts but is a gift that we have been freely given and therefore we should work freely: be generous missionaries always and everywhere.

• 8- Celebration

Each child is handed a piece of payer so that he may write his name and the qualities that he sees in himself or that someone has told him that he has. After writing, a circle is formed and a prayer of thanksgiving is made for the gifts received.

9- Commitment. -Invite a person from your home to pray with you, pray every night to God the Father to invite and send many workers to collect the harvest of the Kingdom and to carry Jesus to so many sheep without shepherd. -I will write in large letters the 7th commandment of the childhood missionary: "A CHILD MISSIONARY KNOWS THAT HIS PERSON IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HIS MONEY"