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29º Ordinary Sunday - cycle A - |
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Theme:
Let's prepare WORLD MISSIONARY SUNDAY
- Objetive :
That the children understand that Jesus' mission of going out and preaching the Gospel to all people. He wants to continue doing it through us, with our collaboration. Jesus SENDS us.
- 1-Environment:
Have the notice board ready to work with the following text: THAT WE ALL CALL GOD OUR FATHER.
2- Greeting:
Dear children: today we are going to prepare ourselves for a very important day for the Childhood Missionary and for the whole Church. The penultimate Sunday of October, every year, the Church celebrates World Missionary Sunday. On this day, all christians of the world offer sacrifices and collaborate with money for the missions. We can't be left behind so we will give from what we have and we will encourage others to also collaborate: Dad, Mum, our grandparents, uncles and aunts, neighbors, school companions, teachers, etc.
3- Renewal of commitment.
-Have I prayed for many people to respond to Jesus' invitation to participate in His banquet?
-Have I saved more than usual, to collaborate with the missions?
4- Prayer.
Dear Jesus: You have invited us to be missionaries and we have answered your invitation. May there be many young people ready to leave everything behind to go to the farthest countries and the most difficult places to carry your message of love. May all of us in your Church feel responsible for the missions and always be generous to collaborate in every way. We ask for light, strength and courage to dedicate ourselves to this cause. Amen.
5- Activity
Use disposable materials such as cardboard, cups, sweet wrapping, drinking straws, pieces of cloth, etc. to prepare the notice board. Glue, scissors, paint are also needed. (whatever can be found.)
The children form small groups and they are given a blank page so that they may represent in a drawing the expression that is written on the notice board. The best drawing that encloses all the elements of the theme is chosen and then, with everyone partaking, the notice board is prepared with the disposable materials at hand.
The catechist, after the activity has ended, will invite the children to reflect on the task realized, the elements used, the work in group... He will tell them that in the Gospel of Mark 16, 15-20, we will discover the profound meaning of our missionary commitment.
6- Gospel
Mark 16, 15-20
Jesus said to them, 'Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation. .He who believes and is baptized will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover.' And so the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven: there at the right hand of God he took his place, while they, going out, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied it.
7- Reflexion
-What did Jesus tell the eleven?
-What did the disciples do after Jesus went up to Heaven?
-What relation will we find between the notice board that we worked on and the message from the Gospel we have just listened to?
8- Enlightenment
Jesus gave his disciples a task and they carried it out until they died. That task, however, has not been accomplished and we can see that the world has not been evangelized completely. As Jesus' disciples, now, we cannot sleep, two thousand years have passed since the coming of Jesus and we continue to be a minority and there are few true missionaries. Jesus is with us but the will of God the Father is that our brothers and sisters who don't know him, reach the Kingdom with our collaboration. The greatest thing can we offer to someone is the Kingdom of God. If we cannot do this directly, we can collaborate in many ways so that missionaries can go to every corner of the world with the message of Jesus. Our collaboration cannot be only one day but every day, but on this World Missionary Sunday we have to be generous in prayer, sacrifice, invitation for others to collaborate, gathering assistance for the needy, sharing our money and many other things that the Holy Spirit may suggest. The important thing is that we don't fall asleep. Our goal is that everyone of the world finally calls God: "OUR FATHER".
9- Celebration
The catechists invites the children to participate in this moment of prayer: The notice board that everyone worked on is placed in the middle and each one prays for the missions and the missionaries in so many places of the world.
We will give thanks to God the Father because we know Jesus, because there were intrepid and brave missionaries who brought us the Good News and because of this we believe in Him.
We end saying the Our Father.
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