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Director: P.Celerino Anciano o.p. Text and design : Sister Teresa Castaño m.a.r. Translated by: Ana María Diaz y Eleazar González
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4º Sunday of lent
Jesus is the light of the world.
Objective:
Observe Jesus who, not only have pity on physically blindness, but also opens the eyes to faith.
1) Setting:
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Put the following drawing on the notice board:
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2) Greeting:
Dear children: let us always remember that Jesus is the LIGHT OF THE WORLD. We should always be happy because He is with us.
3) Prayer:
Jesus, you are our only light and we want to follow you so that we never fall into darkness. We give you thanks because you have given us your friendship and you always help us. Amen
4) Review of the commitment:
- How have we prayed during this week?
- Where have we placed the well that we made?
- How many colors have I added to my cross?
5) Activity
- In our notebook we should copy the drawing that is on the notice board.
- Let’s talk a little about the drawing we copied:
-What do we see there?
-What does it mean to be a person who cannot see with his or her eyes and it seems that his or her heart cannot see either?
- To discover the meaning of this drawing we must be attentive to the word of the Lord.
JUAN 9, 1-9; 13-17; 34-38
6) THE WORD OF GOD
“As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this mind sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him”. We must work the works of God who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. As he said this, he spat on the ground and made clay with the spittle and anointed tye man’s eyes with the clay, saying to him “Go, wash in the pool of Silo’am” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. The neighbours and those who had seen him before as a beggar, said, “is not this the man who used to sit and beg? Some said, “It is he”; others said, “No, but he is like him”. He said, “I am the man”.
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. The Pharisses again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “he put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see. Some of the Pharisses said, “The man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was a division among them. So they again said to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet”.
They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” and they cast him out.Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”. He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him, and it is he who speaks to you”. He said, “Lord, I believe”; and he worshipped him.
7) Reflection
Jesus was passing by and he came across a blind. What did Jesus do?
-What did Jesus say about himself? What situation caused the healing of the blind man?
-What did Jesus do with the blind man, besides giving him back his sight?
8) Enlightenment:
At the time of Jesus people thought that if someone had an illness or a defect, it was because of a sin committed by the person’s parents or the person himself. Jesus explains that the man he has met is not blind because of a sin, but to show God’s work.
Jesus not only wants the blind to see with the eyes of the body, but also with the eyes of the heart. There are a lot of people: children, youth and adults who are not blind of the body but are blind of the heart, they don’t believe, and they haven´t encounted Jesus in their lives.
What makes us blind in the heart? When we pass by someone who is suffering and we fail to do something, our heart doesn’t want to see, when we are selfish and we don’t share, forgive or help each other.
Today Jesus asks us to keep our eyes open to the needs of others, and to have open hearts to do good to those who suffer.
9) Celebration:
We stand up, in a circle and holding hands we pray the Our Father.
Finally we all repeat: “don’t let us fall into the temptation of selfishness, of thinking only about ourselves, of closing our hearts to others”. AMEN
10) Commitment:
-Write in my notebook a list of needs of those who live at home with me, those in the street and those in my classroom.
-Continue painting the cross I have defeated.
-Pray every night for those who have their hearts closed, those who cause wars where so many children die, those who illtreat others, so that Jesus can cure them of their blindness.
