Welcome children!
When we listen to the readings at Mass, Jesus speaks to us in a special way! A wonderful thing to do each week is to spend time reflecting on the Sunday readings together. It can really help you understand what you hear at Mass and can create an occasion for some special family time 🙂
The readings can help us to think about our lives or can give us a challenge or encouragement through the messages we hear, as well as giving us hope for the future.
Jesus comes close to us when we really take time to experience him as the Living Word! So let’s dive in….
The Gospel Reading This Week
The Mark 10 Mission
The Mark 10 Mission is a great quality, home-grown British offering, supported by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. The episodes offer a reflection on the Sunday Gospel, as well as a song. This resource has been used by KS2 at St Joseph’s school, so some of our young parishioners may already be familiar with it – but these are wonderful episodes to view as a family and to watch again and again! As well as watching the latest episode above, you might also like to re-visit older episodes here. Mark 10 mission have also now added special “little liturgies” especially for EYFS & KS1 children. You’ll find both below….
Habemus Papam!
The college of Cardinals has elected a new Pope – Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who will be known as Pope leo XIV
Let us pray for our new Pope
Greg and Gabriel, from the Mark 10 Mission team, presented a special episode from the Vatican City during the conclave, in preparation for welcoming a new Pope.
You can watch it here 🙂
A reflection especially aimed at EYFS and KS1 children (age 4-8)
A reflection especially aimed at KS2 and KS3 children (aged 9-13 ish)
Catholic Kids Media
Catholic Kids Media provides quality Catholic programming for children, to help with the work of evangelisation by explaining the Catholic faith. Do enjoy these videos, which use animation to outline the theme around the Sunday’s Gospel. More content is available on the Catholic Kids Media youtube channel.
Family Faith Time
Family Faith Time is a youtube channel dedicated to building the faith of families together. It is led by Jackie de Almeida, who is a catechist from Poona, in India, with over two decades of experience in sharing the Catholic faith. Each 15 minutes video includes a re-telling of the Gospel story, as well as quiz questions to help those watching understand the Gospel’s message. Previous Gospel reflections can be found on the Family Faith Time Youtube Channel.
