• Objective:

THAT CHILDREN DISCOVER HOW JESUS ACCOMPANY  US, HOW HE TEACHES AND HELPS US.

• 1) Setting: 

Put  a little table with a table cloth in the middle of the room and on it a glass of water, a piece of bread, some fruit, an opened Bible.

• 2) Greeting:

Dear children: Jesus resurrected, walks at our side and when we believe he is far away, he makes us find him and we find our joy.

• 3) Review of the commitment:

How have you done your last week’s commitment?

• 4) PRAYER:

I will write what I would like to tell Jesus and I haven’t had the chance to tell him, and I will also write the words that he uses to answer me. The resurrected Jesus also walked with two of his disciples but they didn’t  recognize him at first.

 

• 5)  ACTIVITY

In our notebook let us draw a road and going along this road, draw Jesus with us. Let us talk to each other.

 

• 6) GOSPEL

Let us hear what the gospel  according to Saint Lucas tells us. Lc 24,13-35

That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaús, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and disscusing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleo’plas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem whoe does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Corcerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemnd to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this happened. More-over, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see.”

And he said to them, “O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was is not necesary that the Crist should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”

And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further, but they constrained him, saving, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them.

When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of they sight. They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?” And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them, who said, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.

 

• 7) REFLECTION

- Why didn’t the apostles who were going to Emaus recognize Jesus?

- How did the disciples feel while Jesus explained the scripture?

- How did the disciples recognize Jesus?

- What did they do when Jesus dissappeared?

• 8) Enlightenment:

The disciples were full of sadness, he who is sad doesn’t believe, doesn’t have faith, can not see the good thing we have in our side, and in the case of those who were walking with Jesus, sadness didn’t let them recognize Jesus. The Writings, the word of the Lord, started to take away what didn’t allow them to see clearly and when they got to the place they were going to, they felt so happy that they invited the person they walked with to have dinner with them. Their heart closed because of sadness was opened to another person and this person was Jesus. Jesus makes the same gestures of the Last Supper, he broke the bread and he gave them, and that was when the important thing happened, they recognized him and they understood the writings. This great joy that was in them, made them go running that night, without fear, to Jerusalem where the rest of the apostles were.

 

• 9) Celebration: 

We form a circle around the table that had been there since the beginning of the meeting. We look at the objects that were placed there. What do they remind us of what we have heard in the word of the Lord? (briefly comment)

We all pray :

Jesus today I have learned...

I want to ask you for...

Sing a song at the end. ( choose the song before hand)

Then we say “Jesus is, Jesus is the Lord

Glory to God, glory, glory to God

Alleluia, alleluia

•  10) Commitment:

-Every night remember “my conversation with Jesus, what I told him and what he answered me, when we were on the road.” (what I drew in my notebook)

-Would I like to change what I said or add something more?