Children’s Liturgy
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17th Sunday of Year A
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The Kingdom of God is a Treasure Beyond Price
Take time to examine your treasures in this life. Make a family treasure box. Have the members of your family place one of their prized treasures in the box. If their treasure cannot be placed in the box, have them write its name on a piece of paper and put that in the box. Talk about those treasures and why they are so meaningful to each person. Sit down around the treasure box. Talk about God’s love and the treasure of God’s kingdom. Have your family write down some spiritual treasures that they wish to cultivate. Place the notes in the treasure box.
Examine ways to simplify your lifestyle as a family. Together with your family make a list of what you value most in life. Post the list on your refrigerator as a reminder to invest your time and your resources toward what you treasure most.
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Read Alouds
17th Sunday of Year A
Build.
Plant.
Grow.
Santa Clara University
Sunday Index for children ages 5-13
Using each lesson plan, directors of religious education, school teachers, and parents can:
- Use the recommended key discussion points when reading weekly messages with your children.
- Read aloud a classic picture storybook linked to the moral virtue in the weekly readings.
- Manage creative activities including arts and crafts, games, and gardening projects.
- End with a reflection activity using a case study and a prayer.
THE WORD THIS WEEK
Wisdom
SUNDAY READ ALOUD
This retelling of Aesop’s fable of the Tortoise and the Hare is wonderful journey to help young people understand the virtue of wisdom.
The fable is set in the American Southwest in this instance and it plays out as expected with the author alternating the action between the tortoise’s diligence and the hare’s overconfidence. To mark the tortoise’s progress, the author unveils the moral of the story cumulatively, beginning with just the word slow and adding another word to the phrase at each milestone. At the contest’s end, the entire phrase slow and steady wins the race celebrates the tortoise’s victory. This is an ancient story that will captivate the children and allow them to understand that wisdom takes its time just like the slow old tortoise.
SUNDAY CORRELATIONS
SOURCE: Teaching Catholic Kids
Risks and Right Choices
Gospel: Matthew 13:44-46
Jake liked to take risks. He loved the rushing feeling of danger. Whether he did tricks on his skateboard or BMX bike, whether he climbed tall trees or walked too close to the edge of a cliff, Jake looked for ways to take a chance.
One day, Jake zoomed down the hill near his house on his skateboard. Faster and faster he traveled toward the corner of the busy intersection. He looked for the traffic light to change, so he could skate through. Waiting, hoping, calculating. Would it change? Could he stop if it didn’t? What would happen?
At the last minute, Jake couldn’t wait. He tilled backwards to brake, but he slid into the intersection. Out the corner of his eye, he saw the traffic light change from green to yellow to red. Relief. He was safe! He could skate through!
Sally saw Jake in the intersection. And Jake saw Sally, so he slowed and skated up to his friend. “Jake!” sally exclaimed. “You almost got hit by a car!” You were lucky the light changed. Why do you take such dangerous risks?”
“Because the feeling is great!,” Jake answered. “Isn’t everything is a risk?”
“What do you mean?” Sally asked.
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A Sick Day for Amos McGee
“A Sick Day for Amos McGee” by Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead Roaring Book Press, New York, 2010, 32 pages, Grades K-2.
Have you ever helped a sick person? Why is it so important to care for others? To find out, go to the library and check out this lovely book, “A Sick Day for Amos McGee,” by Philip C. Stead.
This is simply a beautiful little story. It will make an outstanding book to share with younger children. Questions of care and consideration will naturally flow from the text and pictures. Do yourself a favor and read this charming book with a child you love.
SOURCE: Southern Nebraska Register, Catholic Diocese of Lincoln (The image and link to the video embedded above are not part of Terrence Nollen’s review.)
Catechist Resources
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