In
today's Gospel, Matthew 9: 9-13, Jesus chooses Matthew to follow him.
The Pharisees are shocked, because Matthew is a tax collector. They
are even more shocked when Jesus goes to eat with Mattew at his home,
where they sit with other people whom the Pharisees think are great
sinners.
Jesus replies that he has not come to call people who think they have
done no wrong, but to call sinners. He points out that you do not want
a doctor if you feel that you are well.
We acted out a play about this way of looking at things.
We
thought about the things we can do to feel close to God and put them on
to a 'Nearer to God' Temperature chart.
GOD stays near to US -ALL the time. Thank you,
Loving God.
Today,
our reporters were Anna and Alex. They interviewed the other children
about our work:
'Today in our liturgy we drew some charts of when we feel close to God.
Eve says that she loves this activity and she would like to do it again.
Fandra says that it's fun. Alfie enjoyed watching the play. Grace's favourite
part was when the adults did the play.' (The leaders acted out the play
the first time around.)
