According to the liturgical time
	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.

28º Ordinary Sunday		En ESPAÑOL
ARCHIVO - cycle A		En  PORTUGUES
You can also find:		En INGLES

-Catequesis de los Mandamientos -Catequesis de los Sacramentos -Catequesis del Credo -Catequesis AD-GENTES -Catequesis en cómic -Catequesis con afiches   - Catequesis ROSARIO de la Virgen María

 

Theme:

Jesus compares the Kingdom of God to a wedding banquet.

• Objetive :

That the children understand Jesus insistence on speaking to us about the Kingdom, so that we go along the road to attain it.

•  1-Environment:

Place a world map on the notice board and on it the expression: COME ALL TO THE BANQUET OF THE KINGDOM.

• 2- Greeting:

Dear children: Jesus has given us many examples so that we understand what is the Kingdom to which He invites us. If we are attentive, we would surely understand a lot better.

• 3- Renewal of commitment.

-I prayed for more Children Missionary groups?

-What sacrifices have I decided to make for the missions this month?

• 4- Prayer.

Dear Jesus: We want to be your real missionaries. Strengthen and encourage the hearts of the missionaries all over the world carrying your message of love, your invitation to participate in the banquet of your Kingdom, so that there may be many replies to your invitation. Help us always to say to you "yes" as your mother, the Virgin Mary did. Amen.

• 5- Activity

Each child is handed a sheet of paper with the drawing of a labyrinth.  Four  people are seen but only one can enter the banquet. What characteristics are needed to be able to enter the banquet? Talk about it a bit.

• 6- Gospel

After having done our activity let us listen to Jesus' message in the Gospel of Matthew 22, 1-14

Jesus began to speak to them in parables once again, 'The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a feast for his son's wedding.

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited, but they would not come.

Next he sent some more servants. “Tell those who have been invited” he said “that I have my banquet all prepared, my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, everything is ready. Come to the wedding.” But they were not interested: one went off to his farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his servants, maltreated them and killed them. The king was furious. He sent out his troops who destroyed those murderers and burnt their town. Then he said to his servants, "The wedding is ready; but as those who were invited proved to be unworthy, go to the crossroads in the town and invite everyone you can find to the wedding". So these servants went out on to the roads and collected together everyone they could find, bad and good alike; and the wedding hall was filled with guests. When the king came in to look at the guests he noticed one man who was not wearing a wedding garment, and said to him, "How did you get in here, my friend, without a wedding garment?" And the man was silent. Then the king said to the attendants, “Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth”. 'For many are called, but few are chosen.'

• 7- Reflexion

-What does Jesus compare to the kingdom of heaven, in the Gospel we heard?

-Who are those wedding guests who didn't want to attend?

-What is the meaning of the wedding garments to attend the banquet of the kingdom?

• 8- Enlightenment

Jesus looks for every means and with every possible example so that people discover the Kingdom of God and spend all their time trying to achieve it. In Matthew's passage, which we have heard, Jesus compares the kingdom to the wedding banquet of a king's son. The servants go out to invite many guests but they make excuses, apologize and don't go. The king insists on inviting all kind of persons so that the banquet hall may be filled. He discovers that someone is without the wedding garment and that person is thrown out, into the darkness. The people of Israel were the first guests to be invited to the wedding of the king's son, but many of the people didn't want to attend. They refused to accept the invitation made to them by Jesus. So, his invitation is extended to all people and we are among them . We must attend with the wedding garment: that is, with our hearts filled with faith, hope and good deeds. Jesus doesn't mind if we are poor, sick, white, black, poor or less poor, he looks at the wedding garment, he looks at our hearts.

• 9- Celebration

The catechists invites the children to examine themselves for a moment and take a look on the inside to see how is the "wedding garment" of everyone.

Then the catechist leads the prayer: Jesus, you invite us to the banquet of the kingdom of God. Help us to prepare the wedding garment, made from humility and good deeds. Help us not to work in vain and stay with us always. Amen.