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8º Ordinary Sunday - cycle B - |
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Theme:
To be with Jesus, is to be in festivity.
- Objetive :
To try to understand that to have Jesus in one's heart, is like participating in a wedding in which He is the bridegroom.
- 1-Environment:
Place on the notice board phrases, words o drawings that express a festive environment. For example musical instruments, a well decorated cake, etc.
2- Greeting:
Dear Children, Jesus wants us to be humble sincere persons, “one of a kind”. We cannot hide our reality, he knows how each one of us really is. Jesus is not interested in appearances.
3- Renewal of commitment.
-Have you recited the Creed every day?
-Have you spoken to a friend about Jesus?
4- Prayer.
Dear Jesus: Every week you invite us to unite ourselves around you. We know that now, you are here with us and you are listening to us with affection. You want us to be happy and always maintain joy which is a sign that we are your friends. Never allow us to separate ourselves from you. Amen.
5- Activity
The catechist prepares two cards for each child one with a happy face and one with a sad face. He divides the group in two teams. At a certain distance the children are placed to throw their cards towards a previously prepared cardboard box. The teams will try to get the most amount of cards into the cardboard box. The team that manages to get the most cards with “happy” faces into the box will impose a penalty on the team that gets the most cards with “sad” faces in the box. The game may be repeated to make it more amusing or to settle a “tie”.
6- Gospel
Mark 2, 18-22.
One day when John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, some people came and said to him, ‘Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely the bridegroom’s attendants would never think of fasting while the bridegroom is still with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they could not think of fasting. But the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away from them, and then, on that day, they will fast. No one sews a piece of new cloth on an old cloak; if he does, the patch will pull away from it, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse. And nobody puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine will be lost and the skins too. No! New wine, fresh skins!’
7- Reflexion
-What did some Pharisees and John's disciples ask Jesus?
-What was Jesus' reply to those who asked why his disciples did not fast?
-Would any of you know how to explain: what did Jesus mean with his reply?
8- Enlightenment
To Jesus, to fast just for fasting sake is useless. If we don't have a sincere and clean heart, fasting is like sewing a patch made of new cloth on an old clothing which would cause the patch to pull on the old cloth and the tear gets worse, losing the complete cloth, or like pouring new wine into old wineskins or leather bags. When the wine ferments the wineskins burst and the wine is spilled, thereby losing everything. To be with Jesus there is no need for appearances, we have to be with him the way we are, with our weaknesses and defects without trying to hide them. When we fast, we will do it so as to do a good deed for someone, to share with someone who has nothing and this fasting has meaning to Jesus, because it comes from the heart.
9- Celebration
The children are asked to choose one of the words used by Jesus in the Gospel and with it make a petition. Each child, upon receiving the signal from the catechist, will express what he wants to pray for. In the end they will hold hands and sing or pray the Our Father.
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