27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Healing From God
Mark 10.2-16 Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus leaves Galilee and moves into Judea, much...
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Reflections for 6-9 year olds
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- Sep 27
- 4 min
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): It Is Better
Mark 9.38-43, 45, 47-48 Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, one of Jesus' followers, John, is...
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- Sep 21
- 3 min
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Focus
Mark 9.30-37 Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, the disciples have a hard time. They cannot...
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- Sep 13
- 4 min
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): On Divine Things
Mark 8:27-35 Â Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel last Sunday, we heard about Jesus healing the man who was deaf....
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- Sep 7
- 4 min
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Aside, In Private, Away From
Mark 7.31-37 Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n We often notice how people are fascinated by Jesus. They like to listen to him;...
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- Aug 30
- 3 min
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Sanctifying
Mark 7.1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n People feel curious about Jesus. Wherever he goes, people gather...
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- Aug 23
- 4 min
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Spirit and Life
John 6.53 Â and 60-69 Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n For weeks now, we have listened to Jesus speak about himself as the...
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- Aug 16
- 3 min
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Family Time
John 6. 51-58 Â Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n Last week, we heard Jesus tell us again that he is the Bread of Life. Living...
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- Aug 9
- 4 min
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Bread Like No Other
John 6.48-51 Â (abbreviated) [ John 6.41-51 Â (full)] Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n For the last few weeks, we listened to the...
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- Aug 2
- 3 min
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Life For The World
John 6.24-35 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Last week, we heard about a few loaves of barley bread placed in Jesus’ hands to...
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- Jul 26
- 4 min
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Encounter With God
John 6.1-15 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel reading last week ended with Jesus beginning to teach a great crowd of...
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- Jul 19
- 4 min
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): The Word That Shepherds
Mark 6.30-34 Click here to listen to the Podcast Last week, we listened to Jesus call twelve of his friends to be apostles—people who get...
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- Jul 12
- 2 min
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Called To Be Sent
Mark 6.7-13 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection We are used to hearing about all the marvellous things that Jesus says and does. We...
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- Jul 5
- 4 min
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Take Delight in God
Mark 6.1-6 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection For several Sundays, we listened while Jesus and his friends travelled about the land...
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- Jun 28
- 4 min
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Sleep-Training
Mark 5.21-24, 35-43 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, when Jesus and his friends return from their...
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- Jun 21
- 4 min
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 15
- 3 min
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 8
- 3 min
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 1
- 4 min
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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- May 25
- 3 min
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 17
- 4 min
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 10
- 3 min
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 3
- 2 min
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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- Apr 26
- 3 min
5th Sunday of Easter (Ages 6-9): Meno in Me
John 15.1-8 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, we hear Jesus tell part of the parable of the True Vine....
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- Apr 19
- 3 min
Good Shepherd Sunday (Ages 6-9): The Gift That Gathers
John 10.11-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection For many of us, the parable of the Good Shepherd is one of our favourites. When the...
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- Apr 12
- 4 min
3rd Sunday of Easter (Ages 6-9): Heaven and Earth Meet
Luke 24.35-48 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that Easter is not just one day, but a whole season—seven Sundays long! We have...
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- Apr 5
- 2 min
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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- Mar 30
- 3 min
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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- Mar 23
- 3 min
Passion (Palm) Sunday (Ages 6-9): Come Down!
Mark 15.25-39 (full reading: Mark 14.1 - 15.47) Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week...
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- Mar 15
- 3 min
5th Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): Possibility of More
John 12.20-33 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection For many weeks of Lent, we prepare for the feast of Easter. When Easter arrives,...
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- Mar 9
- 3 min
4th Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): Filling Us With Eternal Life
John 3.14-21 (for the 6-9 yr old, just verses 14-16) Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus speaks...
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- Mar 1
- 4 min
3rd Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): A Home For God
John 2.13-25 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus arrives in Jerusalem, the most holy city in...
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- Feb 23
- 3 min
2nd Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): Holy Time
Mark 9.2-10 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus chooses three of his closest friends to go for...
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- Feb 17
- 3 min
1st Sunday of Lent (Ages 6-9): What Will We See?
Mark 1.12-15 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection We have entered a new season in the church called Lent, a time of preparation for...
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- Feb 9
- 2 min
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Jesus Chooses
Mark 1.40-45 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus meets a person who has leprosy. This means he...
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- Feb 3
- 4 min
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Hunting or Seeking?
Mark 1.29-39 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Last week, we heard about Jesus at the synagogue in Capernaum on the Sabbath day....
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- Jan 26
- 3 min
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): The Power To Act
Mark 1.21-28 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Last week we heard about Jesus collecting disciples to travel with him. In the...
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- Jan 20
- 3 min
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Meeting Us
Mark 1.14-20 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Last week we heard St. John's account of how Andrew and Simon Peter become...
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- Jan 13
- 3 min
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Where Are You Staying?
John 1.35-42 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Last week, the Gospel took place in Bethlehem when Jesus is just a little baby....
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- Jan 5
- 4 min
Feast of the Epiphany (Ages 6-9): Is This Epiphany?
Matthew 2.1-12 Click here to listen here to the Gospel and Reflection We call the second Sunday of the Christmas season the Feast of the...
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- Dec 29, 2023
- 4 min
Feast of the Holy Family (Ages 6-9): Ordinary and Extraordinary
Luke 2.22-40 Click here to listen here to the Gospel and Reflection After a long Advent, the feast of Christmas has finally arrived! We...
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- Dec 22, 2023
- 3 min
4th Sunday of Advent (Ages 6-9): Wait No Longer
Luke 1.26-38 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection On the fourth Sunday of Advent, so close to the feast we wait to celebrate, we...
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- Dec 15, 2023
- 3 min
3rd Sunday of Advent (Ages 6-9): Testament For Joy
John 1.6-8, 19-28 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday we get to light the pink candle on the Advent wreath. The pink...
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- Dec 9, 2023
- 3 min
2nd Sunday of Advent (Ages 6-9): Straight to Us
Mark 1.1-8 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection The reading for this Sunday comes from the very beginning of the Gospel of St. Mark....
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- Dec 1, 2023
- 3 min
1st Sunday of Advent (Ages 6-9): In The Master's Home
Mark 13.33-37 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. In Advent we prepare for the feast of...
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- Nov 24, 2023
- 3 min
Feast of Christ the King (Ages 6-9): Helping the Least. Serving the King.
Matthew 25.31-46 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel this Sunday, Jesus tells a rather unusual parable about the...
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- Nov 18, 2023
- 4 min
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Entrusted to Create
Matthew 24.36; 25.14-30 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus tells us another parable. He knows...
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- Nov 10, 2023
- 3 min
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Light For The Banquet
Matthew 25.1-13 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection (Adults, we can think of the 6-9 year old as in a time of KNOWING—KNOWING who...
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- Nov 4, 2023
- 3 min
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Exalted
Matthew 23.1-12 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection For a few weeks now, we have heard about the Pharisees. Some of the Pharisees...
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- Oct 27, 2023
- 3 min
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ages 6-9): Heart, Mind, and Soul
Matthew 22.34-40 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, the Pharisees come to Jesus and ask, “Teacher,...
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