12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): The Gift of Awe
Mark 4.35-41 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, it is almost night time. It has been a long day for...
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Jun 214 min read
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Who Then Is This?
Mark 4.35-41 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection We have a short Gospel this Sunday. After a long day of teaching people about the...
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Jun 214 min read
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 9-12): Fear of the LORD
Mark 4.35-41 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus performs a miracle. Usually, when Jesus...
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Jun 153 min read
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): Marvellous Growth
Mark 4.26-34 Â (focusing on verses 30-32) Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the gospel reading this Sunday, Jesus tells us a...
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Jun 153 min read
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Grace of God
Mark 4.26-34 Â (focusing on verses 30-32) Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Jesus spends a lot of time telling parables about the...
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Jun 155 min read
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 9-12): Blastano!
Mark 4.26-34 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel this week, Jesus tells two Kingdom of God parables, both about seeds....
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Jun 83 min read
10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 3-6): Jesus' Family
Mark 3.20-35 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus returns home after spending a long time with...
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Jun 83 min read
10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): The Opposite of Evil
Mark 3.20-35 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus returns home after spending a long time...
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Jun 84 min read
10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 9-12): Multiplication
Mark 3.20-35 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday is a sort of sandwich. St. Mark begins by talking about...
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Jun 13 min read
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Ages 3-6): Those Special Words
Mark 14.12-16, 22-26 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, we listen again to the account of the Last...
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Jun 14 min read
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Ages 6-9): The Gift of the Eucharist
Mark 14.12-16, 22-26 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Two Sundays after Pentecost, the Gospel reading returns to the moment of the...
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Jun 14 min read
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Ages 9-12): Celebrating the Covenant
Mark 14.12-16, 22-26 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel reading for this Sunday returns us to the account of the Last Supper...
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May 252 min read
Trinity Sunday (Ages 3-6): How Can We Remember?
Matthew 28.16-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Now, after so much celebrating, the great feast of Easter passes. For so long, we...
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May 253 min read
Trinity Sunday (Ages 6-9): Sure of Love
Matthew 28.16-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection For fifty days, we celebrated the great feast of Easter—Jesus rising from the dead...
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May 254 min read
Trinity Sunday (Ages 9-12): The Great Gathering-In
Matthew 28.16-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We spent fifty days celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus, his Ascension into...
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May 173 min read
Pentecost Sunday (Ages 3-6): Together
Acts 2.1-11 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is a new feast. We celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. We call this...
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May 174 min read
Pentecost Sunday (Ages 6-9): Tongues As of Fire
Acts 2.1-11 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last week, we heard about Jesus ascending into heaven to oversee the building of the...
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May 173 min read
Pentecost Sunday (Ages 9-12): Each of Us
Acts 2.1-11 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is Pentecost, when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit to the...
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May 102 min read
Ascension (Ages 3-6): We Want To Know
Mark 16.15-20Â (for the youngest child, just verses 19-20) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is the seventh Sunday of the...
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May 103 min read
Ascension (Ages 6-9): Signs of the Kingdom
Mark 16.15-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is the last Sunday of the Easter season. We know that for forty days...
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May 103 min read
Ascension of the Lord (Ages 9-12): Signs of the Spirit
Mark 16.15-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Soon we will reach the end of the forty-nine days of the Easter season and will...
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May 32 min read
6th Sunday of Easter (Ages 3-6): Living in Joy
John 15.9-17 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We keep thinking about what Jesus says about himself. Jesus says he is the Good Shepherd...
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May 32 min read
6th Sunday of Easter (Ages 6-9): That Same Love
John 15.9-17 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus continues the parable of the True Vine. Last week,...
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May 33 min read
6th Sunday of Easter (Ages 9-12): Fruit of the Kingdom
John 15.9-17 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday picks up where it ended last Sunday. Jesus continues the...
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