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14º Ordinary Sunday - cycle B - |
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Theme:
To believe we need a clean heart.
- Objetive :
That children realize that authentic faith is born from a sincere heart without crookedness.
- 1-Environment:
With newspaper or magazine clippings, make a few houses, if possible like those in the land of Palestine. On the clippings write the following sign: Jesus taught in his town but they did not believe in him.
2- Greeting:
Dear children: The message today is again about faith. Jesus once said that we should all be like children, in other words, simple persons without double intentions. We give thanks because for him, all children are important.
3- Renewal of commitment.
4- Prayer.
Dear Jesus: We children of the Childhood Missionary would like your message of love to reach more people every day. Enlighten us so that we may be creative, generous, to be able to speak about you in the places that we may be: at school, on the street, at home and with friends. Amen.
5- Activity
The group is given the following labyrinth.
6- Gospel
Mark 6, 1-6
Going from that district, he went to his home town and his disciples accompanied him. With the coming of the Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue and most of them were astonished when they heard him. They said, ‘Where did the man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been granted him, and these miracles that are worked through him? This is the carpenter, surely, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joset and Jude and Simon? His sisters, too, are they not here with us?’ And they would not accept him. And Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is only despised in his own country, among his own relations and in his own house’; and he could work no miracle there, though he cured a few sick people by laying his hands on them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. He made a tour round the villages, teaching.
7- Reflexion
-What was Jesus’ home town?
-Why did Jesus’ own people doubt and not believe in him?
-Why couldn’t Jesus perform many miracles in his home town, among his own people?
8- Enlightenment
Jesus grew up in Nazareth, in the region of Galilee. The people of his home town and his neighbors had seen him grow up but they didn’t have sufficient vision to discover in him, the one sent by God. The people worried about the secondary things: who were his cousins, relatives and close family, in the work that Jesus used to do, and “where did that wisdom come from?” The people of Nazareth did not believe in Jesus and that is why he could not work many miracles. Jesus was amazed at their lack of faith, he expected something else. Something similar can happen to us: we believe we know Jesus well enough and then we don’t really believe in him nor that he is really present in the poor, in the needy. There are people who believe themselves as good people but signal others as sinners and unjust. That is not believing in Jesus nor knowing each other. Jesus is admirable, he allows himself to be found in simple things and especially by the simple of heart. We have to always try to live in the truth, never try to bend things to benefit ourselves because we won’t find Jesus nor will Jesus find us.
9- Celebration
The catechist invites the children to form in groups of two. Each group of companions will then say one to the other, how one perceives the other, with what does one compare the other and why: a flower, a bird, an object, etc. After ending the exercise, everyone in a circle gives thanks to God for what his companion said to him. They then pray the Our Father and the Hail Mary.
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