Children's Liturgy Sunday November 23rd 2008
CHRIST
the KING
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Today
is Christ the King Sunday, or the FEAST of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST the KING.
It is the last Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Sunday before Advent.
Pope Pius the Eleventh set up the Feast of Christ the King in 1925, because
he wanted world leaders to respect Jesus, and to remind everyone that
Jesus must be King of our hearts.
In between World War One and World War Two, many of the leaders of Europe
were trying to persuade people to turn away from the churches, or not
to believe in God at all. Some countries were ruled by dictators who tried
to influence beliefs about who really mattered, which human beings should
be seen as important and who should be used as slaves, or worse still,
not treated as human.
In today's Gospel (Matthew 25: 31-46) we are reminded the Jesus is sometimes
known as the Servant King, because he teaches that to love God is to look
after others- to feed them when they are hungry, to care for them when
they are sick, to visit them in prison and so on. If we do anything kind
for one other person, we are doing it to God.
We remember that Jesus's first crown was the Crown of Thorns, which the
Romans made him wear just before they crucified him. Jesus wore this crown
and died for us because he loved us.
We made a banner, which we decorated with triangles, which stand for thorns
and for crowns of love and serving others. We celebrate God's Kingdom
now, when we love others. |
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We
look forward to Advent, when we will welcome Jesus as the 'Newborn King'.
We talked about our Advent project. We have been collecting plastic
bottles and cardboard boxes for some weeks now. Also, people of the
parish have been giving us left-over material they no longer needed.
This is what we are going to do with it: |
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