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Matthew 4.12-23 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A 9-12 year olds The Gospel this week begins with disturbing news. John the Baptist...

Matthew 4.12-23 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A 6-9 year olds This week in the Gospel, we hear Jesus calling four people to come...

Matthew 4.12-23 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A 3-6 year olds This week in the Gospel, we hear Jesus calling to four people. There...

John 1.29-34 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A 9-12 year olds John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the...

John 1.29-34 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A 6-9 year olds This Sunday we hear John the Baptist talking about Jesus' baptism. I saw...

John 1.29-34 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A 3-6 year olds This Sunday, once again we hear about John the Baptist. Some of you may...

Matthew 3.13-17 BAPTISM OF THE LORD – YEAR A 9-12 year olds At the close of the Christmas season, we leave the secret years of Jesus'...

Matthew 3.13-17 BAPTISM OF THE LORD – YEAR A 6-9 year olds We are coming to the end of the Christmas season. Most people think Christmas...

Matthew 3.13-17 BAPTISM OF THE LORD – YEAR A 3-6 year olds This Sunday is the last of the three Sundays celebrating the feast of...

Matthew 2.1-12 EPIPHANY OF THE LORD – YEAR A 9-12 year olds In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise...

Matthew 2.1-12 EPIPHANY OF THE LORD – YEAR A 6-9 year olds “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his...

Matthew 2.1-12 EPIPHANY OF THE LORD – YEAR A 3-6 year olds We know that when Jesus was born, people came to visit him. God wanted people...

Matthew 2.13-15, 19-23 FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY SUNDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS – YEAR 9-12 year olds Last week, we thought about...

Matthew 2.13-15, 19-23 FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY SUNDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS – YEAR A 6-9 year olds In the Gospel reading this...

Matthew 2.13-15, 19-23 FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY SUNDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS – YEAR A 3-6 year olds In the Gospel reading this...

Matthew 1:18-24 4th Sunday of Advent, Year A 9-12 year olds In Advent, we usually spend a lot of time thinking about the Annunciation to...

Matthew 1:18-24 4th Sunday of Advent, Year A 6-9 year olds She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his...

Matthew 1:18-24 4th Sunday of Advent, Year A 3-6 year olds "the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit" In this Sunday's Gospel,...

Matthew 11.2-11 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year A 9-12 year olds When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his...

Matthew 11.2-11 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year A 6-9 year olds In the Gospel this Sunday, Jesus talks about his cousin, John the Baptist....

Matthew 11.2-11 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year A 3-6 year olds The very last thing Jesus says in the Gospel for this Sunday seems a little...

Matthew 3.1-12 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year A 9-12 year olds "Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that...

Matthew 3.1-12 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year A 6-9 year olds In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea,...

Matthew 3.1-12 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year A 3-6 year olds In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea,...