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3rd Sunday of Easter (Ages 6-9): Abundance, Mercy, Matter
John 21.1-19 Â Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday we celebrate the third Sunday of Easter. We are not even halfway through...

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3 days ago5 min read
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2nd Sunday of Easter (Ages 6-9): Contagious
John 20:19- 23 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday actually begins on the evening of the day that Jesus rises...

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Apr 242 min read
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Easter Sunday (Ages 6-9): Truth and Understanding
John 20:1-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that when Jesus is born, a new moment begins in the History of the Kingdom of...

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Apr 193 min read
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Passion (Palm) Sunday (Ages 6-9): Remember Me
Luke 22:14-20 , Luke 23:32-43 Â (full reading: Luke 22.14 - 23.56 ) Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday marks...

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Apr 124 min read
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5th Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): The Face of Mercy
John 8.1-11 Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection (Adults, this is a difficult passage from the Gospels—for adults as well as...

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Apr 24 min read
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4th Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): No Matter What
Luke 15.1-3, 11-32 Â Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection Jesus often speaks about the love of God. It seems important to...

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Mar 296 min read
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3rd Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): Poor Fig Tree
Luke 13:1-9 Â Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday mentions two tragic events in which people...

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Mar 193 min read
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2nd Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): Encounter
Luke 9.28b-36 Â Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection Many times in St. Luke's Gospel, we hear about Jesus praying. In the...

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Mar 114 min read
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1st Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): God's Time
Luke 4.1-13 Â Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection We enter a new season in the church called Lent , a time of preparation...

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Feb 284 min read
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8th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Specks and Logs
Luke 6:39-45 Â Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus tells us some parables about...

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Feb 284 min read
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7th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): More Than Level Is The Kingdom
Luke 6:27-38 Â Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last week we thought about the Kingdom of God as level ground. We...

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Feb 224 min read
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6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Level Is The Kingdom
Luke 6:17, 20-26 Â Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday begins with Jesus coming down from a...

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Feb 144 min read
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5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Noticed
Luke 5.1-11 Â Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection So often when we listen to the Gospel, we hear about Jesus and his...

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Feb 84 min read
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Presentation of the Lord (Ages 6-9): Salvation and Light
Luke 2.22-40 Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflectio n Today, it seems we move back in time! We thought we left the Christmas...

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Jan 314 min read
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3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Serving The Word
Luke 1.1-4; 4.14-21 Â Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflectio n Each Sunday we listen to the Word of God. This Sunday, though,...

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Jan 254 min read
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2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): The Mother of Jesus Knows
John 2.1-12 Â Click here to listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n The reading for this Sunday comes from the Gospel of St. John. We...

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Jan 173 min read
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Baptism of the Lord (Ages 6-9): The Power of Prayer
Luke 3.15-16, 21-22 Â Click here to listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n Soon we will come to the end of the Christmas season, but...

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Jan 114 min read
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Feast of the Epiphany (Ages 6-9): Is This Epiphany?
Matthew 2.1-12 Click here to listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n We call the second Sunday of the Christmas season the Feast of the...

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Jan 34 min read
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Feast of the Holy Family (Ages 6-9): Feeding a Need
Luke 2.41-52 Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n The feast arrived! We waited for so long and now we celebrate! For three...

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Dec 27, 20244 min read
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4th Sunday of Advent (Ages 6-9): She Says Yes
Luke 1.39-45 Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n This Sunday we light all four candles on the Advent wreath. The feast arrives...

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Dec 19, 20243 min read
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