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5th Sunday of Lent (Ages 3-6): The Voice That Calls By Name
John 11.3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45 (full reading: John 11.1-45) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, the fifth...

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Mar 25, 20232 min read
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4th Sunday of Lent (Ages 3-6): Jesus Is.
John 9.1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38 (full reading: John 9.1-41) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know things about Jesus. We know that he...

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Mar 17, 20233 min read
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3rd Sunday of Lent (Ages 3-6): Living Water
John 4.5-15 (full reading: John 4.5-42) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We have had two Sundays of Lent; now we come to the third...

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Mar 11, 20233 min read
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2nd Sunday of Lent (Ages 3-6): Peek At The Risen Life
Matthew 17.1-9 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel this Sunday, we hear Jesus taking three of his best friends away by...

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Mar 3, 20232 min read
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1st Sunday of Lent (Ages 3-6): Listening Only To The Voice of God
Matthew 4.1-11 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We will notice at church this week that the colour has changed! Instead of green, the...

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Feb 25, 20232 min read
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7th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): How The Good Shepherd Loves
(Adults, the Gospel reading this week is again a moral exhortation: to love as God loves. For the 3-6 year old, for whom "loving "is...

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Feb 18, 20232 min read
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6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): The Voice of the Good Shepherd
(Adults, the Gospel reading this week speaks about how to live righteously. 3-6 year olds are at a stage of enjoying the gift of...

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Feb 9, 20232 min read
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5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): The Light of the World
(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle and reading the Word of God to your child. Alternatively, you could read the first...

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Feb 2, 20232 min read
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4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): Who Are The Poor In Spirit?
(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle and reading the Word of God to your child. Alternatively, you could read the first...

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Jan 27, 20232 min read
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3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): Why Do They Follow?
(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle and reading the Word of God to your child. Alternatively, you could read the first...

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Jan 20, 20232 min read
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2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): Knowing That Can Only Come From God
(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle and reading the Word of God to your child. Alternatively, you could read the first...

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Jan 13, 20233 min read
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Epiphany of the Lord (Ages 3-6): What do they know?
Matthew 2.1-12 Most people in our world think that Christmas is over. Not yet! Still we celebrate our joy! We know that when Jesus is...

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Jan 5, 20233 min read
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Mary, Mother of God (Ages 3-6): Treasure
(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle before reading the reflection to your child. The quotations you could read directly from...

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Dec 31, 20224 min read
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Christmas (Ages 3-6): In A Manger
(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle before reading the reflection to your child. The quotations you could read directly from...

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Dec 24, 20222 min read
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4th Sunday of Advent (Ages 3-6): From the Holy Spirit
(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle before reading the reflection to your child. The quotations you could read directly from...

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Dec 16, 20222 min read
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3rd Sunday of Advent (Ages 3-6): The Least in the Kingdom
(Adults, this reflection focuses on the last line of the Gospel.) Matthew 11.2-11 This Sunday we light the third candle of the Advent...

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Dec 9, 20222 min read
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2nd Sunday of Advent (Ages 3-6): The Hidden Kingdom
(Adults, the Gospel for this Sunday talks about repentance in the sense of turning from sin which our 3-6-year olds are not needing yet....

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Dec 2, 20222 min read
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1st Sunday of Advent (Ages 3-6): Come, Lord Jesus!
(Adults, the Gospel for this Sunday involves images that are incomprehensible for little people. This reflection focuses on only the last...

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Nov 25, 20222 min read
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Christ The King (Ages 3-6): Jesus Is King!
(Adults, with 3-6 year olds we never mention Jesus' death without in the same breath proclaiming the Resurrection. Young children are not...

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Nov 17, 20222 min read
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33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): Our Best Gift
(Adults, this Gospel speaks of end-times and the cost of discipleship-—two topics that are beyond the needs and questions of the 3-6 year...

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Nov 11, 20223 min read
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