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.

31º 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 TELLS WE ONLY HAVE ONE MASTER, FATHER AND TEACHER.

 

• Objetive :

That the children discover how Jesus advises us that there is only one whom we may call Father, Master and Teacher.

•  1-Environment:

Place the following in large letters on the notice board: ONE MASTER: THE HOLY SPIRIT, ONE FATHER; THE CELESTIAL FATHER, ONE TEACHER: JESUS.

• 2- Greeting:

Dear children: To live in a group, in community, in a family is difficult if we don't follow Jesus' advise. Today he will tell us something very important, so we will be attentive in every moment.

• 3- Renewal of commitment.

• -Who made a list of needy people and did something for one of them?

  -Did we remember to pray for those who don't feel loved by anyone?

  4- Prayer.

-Dear Jesus: We give you thanks for everything you teach us, because we know that you tell us the truth, you are not mistaken. We want to know you better and allow ourselves to be enlightened by the Spirit to overcome doubt and temptation. Amen.

• 5- Activity

The group is divided in three or four small groups, depending on the number of children. To each small group is handed over six words: HUMBLE-PROUD-GREET-FORCE-SERVE-BROTHERS, so that they can write a story and make a drawing. When finished there is communication between all the groups to display the task realized. The catechist asks how they have felt and whether they experienced any difficulty in the task; in agreeing about the subject of the story or the drawing. Stress, a bit, the difficulties of integration but without explaining anything.

• 6- Gospel

The catechist invites the children to listen to the message of Jesus and to discover how profound is this message.

The Gospel of Matthew 23, 1-12

Addressing the people and his disciples Jesus said, 'The Scribes and the Pharisees occupy the chair of Moses. You must therefore do what they tell you and listen to what they say; but do not be guided by what they do: since they do not practise what they preach. They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but will they lift a finger to move them? Not they! Everything they do is done to attract attention, like wearing broader phylacteries and longer tassels, like wanting to take the place of honour at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues, being greeted obsequiously in the market squares and having people call them Rabbi. You, however, must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi, since you have only one Master, and you are all brothers. You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor must you allow yourselves to be called teachers, for you have only one Teacher, the Christ.

The greatest among you must be your servant. Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

• 7- Reflexion

-Why does Jesus tell the people not to imitate the works of the Scribes and Pharisees?

-What was it that the Scribes and Pharisees like that Jesus reproaches them?

-To whom does Jesus say we should call Master, Father and Teacher?

-What does Jesus say that those who want to be the first among others should do? 

• 8- Enlightenment

Jesus strongly scolded the scribes and pharisees because the deceived and manipulated the people. The forced the people to observe laws that they didn't observe, they dis things to be seen and called Master, Father, Teacher, they lived from appearances. Jesus' message is clear: We should only call Father, the Father Celestial; Master to only one: the Spirit who leads us and Teacher, Jesus. The greatest among us should be the one who serves the most. This will be the road to the Kingdom, serve and not to be served. Now we can discover why it is difficult agreeing on how to do the task. We believe that we know more than others, or we are more capable. Jesus teaches us that the road of humility and what we should do because our life is having contact with others, we are not alone.

• 9- Celebration

Today we recognize that only the Lord helps, teaches and guides us, reciting Psalm 23, which is one of the many prayers of the Old Testament and that Jesus and the Virgin Mary also learned and prayed:

Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

In meadows of green grass he lets me lie.

To the waters of repose he leads me;

there he revives my soul.

He guides me by paths of virtue for the sake of his name.

Though I pass through a gloomy valley, I fear no harm;

beside me your rod and your staff are there, to hearten me.

You prepare a table before me under the eyes of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil, my cup brims over.

Ah, how goodness and kindness pursue me, every day of my life;

my home, the house of Yahweh, as long as I live!