Children's Liturgy Sunday March 9th 2008
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In
the Book of Genesis, the writer imagines that on the fifth day of Creation,
God made the fish and birds.
Today we added the fish and birds to our collage of the world. |
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We
heard the story of how a little fish once asked a big fish how to find
the ocean. The older fish said it was the thing they were already in.
The little fish was disappointed. "But it's only water," he
said and went to look elsewhere.
We can be forever looking for bigger, better things and missing what is
under our noses! |
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can seem big and far-off too. today we also heard the Gospel story- John
11: 1-45- of how Jesus brought Lazarus back to life. But we don't have
to die to be brought back to life by a miracle; all we have to do is to
be open to God. In a single moment, we can choose to live as Jesus asked
us. In a flash everything changes.(In the time of Lazarus, dead people
would be wrapped in bindings, when they were placed in the tomb. As Lazarus
rose, Jesus told people to untie him. This was also a way of showing how
somebody could be untied from their old life, so they could act as Jesus
had taught. When we told the congregation about this back in church, one
child gave a demonstration by bursting out of wrappings!) |
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When
Jesus heard that his friend, Lazarus, had died, he cried. Jesus understood
friendship.
One of the liturgy children said that the best thing about coming to our
liturgy on Sundays was seeing their friends.
This is a miracle we can easily miss. Friendship is wonderful.
Dear God,
During Lent, help us to see you in all our friends and to find you in
all the people we meet, day by day.
Amen.
Here is a picture of a sculpture by Jacob Epstein of Lazarus rising from
the tomb. You can see the bindings. The sculpture was finished in 1948. |
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