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13º Ordinary Sunday - cycle B - |
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Theme:
Faith has cured many.
- Objetive :
That children realize how people who have approached Jesus with faith have been cured.
- 1-Environment:
Place the following drawing on the notice board
DAUGHTER, YOUR FAITH HAS HEALED YOU.
2- Greeting:
Dear children: In the Gospel we discover that great love of Jesus and his desire to listen to and respond to the people who with faith ask something of him. We also have many things to ask him: that he might heal us in the depths of our hearts so that we may be converted and be able to help others.
3- Renewal of commitment.
Did I write a prayer to Jesus for all those who don’t believe and did I recite it every night?
What items, among my things have I brought to share with some needy child?
4- Prayer.
Dear Jesus: We give you thanks for the opportunity to get together in this Childhood Missionary group and in every meeting to get to know you better and so to discover that marvelous love you have for us.
We ask you to make us meek and humble, so that our confidence in you grows day by day.
We pray for our parents and brothers and sisters. Increase in them the faith and joy for believing in you. Amen.
5- Activity
The group is divided in two teams. The members of each team are numbered and placed in two lines, one before the other at a certain distance so that a ball may be placed in the middle. The first of each line is blindfolded and at the given signal, the two blindfolded players will go to the end of their respective lines to pass through the tunnel, formed by the legs of their companions, and try to grasp the ball. Points are awarded to each team every time one of its members manages to grasp the ball. The team with more points wins.
6- Gospel
Mark 5, 21-43
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lakeside. Then one of the synagogue officials came up, Jairus by name, and seeing him, fell at his feet and pleaded with him earnestly, saying, ‘My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her to make her better and save her life.’ Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed him; they were pressing all round him. Now there was a woman who had suffered from a haemorrhage for twelve years; after long and painful treatment under various doctors, she had spent all she had without being any the better for it, in fact, she was getting worse. She had heard about Jesus, and she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his cloak. ‘If I can touch even his clothes,’ she had told herself, ‘I shall be well again.’ And the source of the bleeding dried up instantly, and she felt in herself that she was cured of her complaint. Immediately aware that, power had gone out from him, Jesus turned round in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?’ His disciples said to him, ‘You see how the crowd is pressing round you and yet you say, “Who touched me?”’ But he continued to look all round to see who had done it. Then the woman came forward, frightened and trembling because she knew what had happened to her, and she fell at his feet and told him the whole truth. ‘My daughter,’ he said ‘your faith, has restored you to health; go in peace and be free from your complaint.’
While he was still speaking some people arrived from the house of the synagogue official to say, ‘Your daughter is dead: why put the Master to any further trouble?’ But Jesus had overheard this remark of theirs and he said to the official, ‘Do not be afraid; only have faith’. And he allowed no one to go with him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. So they came, to the official's house and Jesus noticed all the commotion, with people weeping and wailing unrestrainedly. He went in and said to them, ‘Why all this, commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep.’ But they laughed at him. So he turned them all out and taking with him the child's father and mother and his own companions, he went into the place where the child lay. And taking the child by the hand he said to her: ‘Talitha, kum!’ which means, ‘Little girl, I tell you to get up’. The little girl got up at once -and began to walk about, for she was twelve years old. At this they were overcome with astonishment, and he ordered them strictly not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.
7- Reflexion
-Who was Jairus and why did he approach Jesus?
-What happened while Jesus was walking and the crowd was pressing all round him?-
-What did Jesus say to the woman who touched his cloak?
-What happened when Jesus got to Jairus’ house?
8- Enlightenment
Today we have heard about two miracles that Jesus did. The miracles are accomplished by the faith of the persons. Jairus fell at his feet and very respectfully pleaded with him to cure his daughter. Jesus is on his way to Jairus’ house when that woman who was sick for twelve years, believing that if she only touched Jesus’ clothes she would be healed, makes Jesus, in the presence of everyone, tell her that she is cured because of her faith. Jesus has a very soft heart for those who believe and trust in him. We have to learn to trust and believe as those persons that the Gospel tells us about. They were simple people, who with sincerity approached Jesus believing in his saving power. Jairus’ daughter was a girl about the same age as anyone here. Because of the faith that Jairus had in Jesus, the girl is restored to life and those who didn’t believe and made fun of Jesus when he said the she hadn’t died but was asleep, were left speechless, covered in shame, on seeing the child cured, walking and eating.
What does the word of God teach us today? Faith can do all and the best way to please Jesus is to believe in him and believe in his words.
9- Celebration
(The catechist after making the following commentary, invites the children to dialogue).
Today we have played a game in which everyone has participated. What did you feel when you had your eyes blindfolded, going through the tunnel to grasp the ball? If you were alone or with strangers would you have felt like you did today?
After the dialogue is ended everyone gets ready to give thanks to God the Father for the companions, because there is confidence between one and another, etc. The end with a hymn or reciting the Our Father.
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