St. Mbaaga Tuzinde Catholic Church Kiwatule
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 6th November, 2016
Colour: Green
Prepare: Crayons and Papers and ask Children to
draw their imagination of heaven on paper.
Theme: Faith/Heaven
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7:00 - 7:03 ====
Entrance Song:
1. Seek ye first the kingdom of God
And His righteousness;
And all these things shall be added unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah!
2. Ask, and it shall be given unto you;
Seek, and you shall find.
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah!
3. Man shall not live by bread alone,
But by every word
That proceeds out from the mouth of God.
Hallelu, Hallelujah!
Explain: Today is the 32nd
Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Ask: Does anyone remember the
symbol for last week? <Tree> < Zacchaeus’
faith became
tall like a tree.> We talked about how God shows us
that everyone is loved.
Welcome;
Today we hear how a group of religious leaders try to catch
Jesus out but he shows them and us a different way of thinking.
//V// In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit.
//R// Amen.
//V//
May The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
And
the love of God,
And
the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
be
with you all.
//R// And
with Your Spirit.
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7:03 - 7:08 ====
NEWS
TIME :-)
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7:08 - 7:11 ====
Penitential Rite
Dear
little children, let us acknowledge our sins,
and
so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.
Confession of our sins
I
confess to the Almighty God,
and to
you, my brothers and sisters,
that I
have greatly sinned
in my
thoughts and in my words
in
what I have done and In what I have failed to do
-strike
the breast 3 times as you say-
through
my fault
through
my fault
through
my most grievous fault
THEREFORE
I ask Blessed Mary Ever Virgin
all
the Angels and Saints
and
you, my brothers and sisters
to
pray for me to the Lord our God
Have Mercy on us oh Lord
For we
have sinned against you.
Show us, Oh Lord, your mercy
And
grant us your salvation.
You were sent to heal the contrite of heart.
Lord
have Mercy
Lord
have Mercy
You came to sinners
Christ
have mercy
Christ
have mercy
You are seated at the right hand of the father
to intercede for us.
Lord
have mercy.
Lord
have mercy.
May the almighty God have
mercy on us, forgive us our sins and bring us to life everlasting?
AMEN
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7:11 - 7:14 ====
GLORIA –Sing it or recite it. Glory to God in the highest….
Opening Prayer
God of heaven and earth, your kingdom has room for us all, may we
see each other through your eyes and try to be like Christ in all that we say
and do. Amen.
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7:14 - 7:19 ====
Liturgy
of the Word
First
Reading, Introduce the reading.
Say: Today’s
first reading is from the second book of Maccabees. (2 Macc 7:1-2, 9-14)
Explain: This is a story about some heroes who promised to believe in God
and follow his laws. They knew that they would go to heaven. They were willing to suffer because they
believed in God’s promise to them. Now listen soundly…
A prepared child/children come and take\ the first reading or
second reading.
The
first reading is from the old book of (2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14)
Martyrdom
of a Mother and Her Seven Sons.
1 It also happened that seven brothers with their
mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king to force
them to eat pork in violation of God’s law.a 2 One of the brothers, speaking
for the others, said: “What do you expect to learn by questioning us? We are
ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.” 9With his last breath he said: “You accursed fiend, you are
depriving us of this present life, but the King of the universe will raise us
up* to
live again forever, because we are dying for his laws.”c
10After him the third suffered
their cruel sport. He put forth his tongue at once when told to do so, and
bravely stretched out his hands,11as he spoke these noble words:
“It was from Heaven that I received these; for the sake of his laws I disregard
them; from him I hope to receive them again.”
12Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young man’s
spirit, because he regarded his sufferings as nothing.
13After he had died, they
tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way.14When he was near death, he said,
“It is my choice to die at the hands of mortals with the hope that God will
restore me to life; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life.”
“This is the word of the Lord”
All say “Thanks
be to God”.
Ask: What
do you think of the story? <discuss> **
note to facilitator: The most important feature here is the strength of the
faith of these martyrs** They
believed so strongly in eternal life that they were willing to die.
Let us focus on our
responsorial Psalm:
< Lord,
when your glory appears, my joy will be full....….>3x.
Introduce the Gospel
Today’s Gospel reading comes
from the book of Luke. (Lk 20:27-38)
When Jesus taught people, they had lots of questions. There was one group of Jews called Sadducees who did not believe in
eternal life. They believed that when a person died, that was the end. There
was nothing else. Let’s listen to
this story that St. Luke shares with us some of the questions that the
Sadducees asked Jesus.
Let us Welcome the Gospel
..with
Alleluia!! – OR
Welcome
the Gospel through a song.
Chorus:
Halle,
halle, halle-lu-jah!
Halle,
halle, halle-lu-jah! Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
!!
Silently
say: ”Cleanse my heart and my lips, almighty God, that I may worthily
proclaim your Holy Gospel.
The Leader
starts: The
Lord be with You,
AND
with your Spirit.
A reading is from the Holy
Gospel according to St. Luke
Glory to
You, O Lord
Luke 20:27-38(GNT)
The Question about Rising from Death
27 Then some
Sadducees, who say that people will not rise from death, came to Jesus and
said, 28 “Teacher,
Moses wrote this law for us: ‘If a man dies and leaves a wife but no children,
that man's brother must marry the widow so that they can have children who will
be considered the dead man's children.’ 29 Once there
were seven brothers; the oldest got married and died without having children. 30 Then the
second one married the woman, 31 and then the
third. The same thing happened to all seven—they died without having children. 32 Last of all,
the woman died. 33 Now, on the
day when the dead rise to l ife, whose wife will she be? All seven of them had
married her.”
34 Jesus
answered them, “The men and women of this age marry, 35 but the men
and women who are worthy to rise from death and live in the age to come will
not then marry. 36 They will be
like angels and cannot die. They are the children of God, because they have
risen from death. 37 And Moses
clearly proves that the dead are raised to life. In the passage about the
burning bush he speaks of the Lord as ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob.’ 38 He is the God
of the living, not of the dead, for to him all are alive.”
The Gospel of the Lord”
“Praise to you Lord Jesus
Christ”
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7:19 - 7:24 ====
(*)Tell an
interesting story according to the Gospel and children’s level of understanding
like in the
Gospel
reflection:
In today's story a group
of religious leaders who were from rich families did
not believe in resurrection - that people would be raised from the dead to be
with God after they had died.
The religious leaders in today's story loved to obey rules. So they asked Jesus a question to trap him, to catch him out. They asked him about who a woman would be married to in heaven, if she had been married seven times in her life.
But Jesus says
that in heaven everything is different from on earth.
Lastly: Jesus is showing us that our rules
only go so far and that his kingdom is bigger than this world. If we believe in
Jesus we see things differently, we see people differently and we act
differently.
Memory
Verse:
“Luke
20:38 ( “He is the God of the living, not of the dead, for to Him all
are alive.”)
Let us stand up and we profess our faith.
Profession of our faith
I believe in God the
Father, Almighty,
creator of heaven and
earth:
And in Jesus Christ,
his only begotten Son, our Lord:
--bow
down--
Who was conceived by
the power of the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin
Mary:
Suffered under Pontius
Pilate;
was crucified, died
and was buried:
He descended into
hell:
The third day he rose
again from the dead:
He ascended into
heaven,
and sits at the right
hand of God the Father Almighty:
From there He will
come to judge the living and the
dead:
I believe in the Holy
Spirit:
the holy catholic
church:
the communion of
saints:
The forgiveness of
sins:
The resurrection of
the body:
And the life
everlasting.
Amen.
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7:24 - 7:26 ====
Prayers of the Faithful
Now is the
time to pray for our stuff :-)Intercessions.
You may want to ask the children to offer their own prayers
or you can use the suggestions below.
Today as we
learn about God’s different way of seeing the world we pray together:
Prayer 1. We pray for the Church: that it may work to reflect
God’s kingdom on earth in all that it does. We pray to the Lord...
Prayer 2. We pray for our parish, family and friends: that we may seek the kingdom
of God at all times and in all places and together bring peace upon this earth. We pray to the Lord...
Prayer 3. We pray for our brothers and sisters in every country: that we may treat
each other with dignity at all ages - as girls and boys, women and men.. We pray to
the Lord...
Prayer 4. Let us pray that in this
life and the next, God and His angels are with us. We thank our Lord for
protecting us and guiding us as we journey towards Him. We pray to the Lord...
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7:26 - 7:28 ====
Silently,
each one tells God your petition.
We
ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son,
who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
One
God, for ever and ever.
Amen
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7:28 - 7:30 ====
Song I
nterlude: Walk Walk in the light, walk walk in the light, .........
Sing as
we give in our offertory and we walk to the big church... NOTE--
after the song, is being sung, we pick the children that will perform next
Sunday....