Children's Liturgy Program

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD PROGRAM

The Children’s Liturgy of the Word Program, at the Sunday 10 am Mass, re-started today, for the 2024-2025 school year.

The children aged 7 to 11 (Grade 2 or higher) experience the Liturgy of the Word, adapted to their age level. The children hear the Sunday Gospel and have discussion, activities & prayers to reflect on the meaning of that gospel.

The younger group consists of children aged 3-6. Their program includes a Bible story, most often the Sunday Gospel, and a craft designed to support that gospel or Bible story.

All of the children return to the congregation in time for the Eucharistic Prayer.

Please pray that this ministry to children, which has been offered at Holy Name Parish since 1985. will continue to be able to serve the needs of the children of the Parish and their families.

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The Children’s Liturgy of the Word Program, at the Sunday 10 am Mass, will start again next Sunday, September 22, for the 2024-2025 school year.

A reminder to parents about the format & purpose of the program, which is divided into 2 age groups:

The children aged 7 to 11 (Grade 2 or higher) experience the Liturgy of the Word, adapted to their age level. The children hear the Sunday Gospel and have discussion, activities & prayers to reflect on the meaning of that gospel.

The younger group consists of children aged 3-6. Their program includes a Bible story, most often the Sunday Gospel, and a craft designed to support that story.

All of the children return to the congregation in time for the Eucharistic Prayer.

If parents prefer to keep their children upstairs for the Liturgy of the Word, that is perfectly fine.

NEW VOLUNTEERS ARE WELCOME:  We welcome any of the middle school and high-school aged youth of the parish to consider volunteering as a student helpers with the younger group. We also welcome parents or other adults to volunteer to become teachers or helpers in our program.

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This has been the first season of the Children’s Program since the pandemic where we were able to offer the program in 2 age groups (ages 3-6 and 7-11) for the full year. This allowed us to provide a better program for the younger children of the parish.

On behalf of the Parish, we sincerely thank all the volunteers who have served as teachers and helpers in our program since September :

Deirdre Fernandes, Erin Callery, Michele Mellow, Kimberly Martin, Amelié Brown, Ludovica Lacetera, Vanessa Nicholas Schmidt, Sheila Spencer, Anna & Earl Totten, Mary-Ellen Cascone, Valerie Kenny, Kristiana Bordokas, Tom Broadhurst.

We especially want to thank all the student volunteers who were recruited by Sheila Spencer, and who served the program very faithfully this year:

Elisa Fesseha, Janyse Anacta,

Abigail & Hannah Hart, Michael Perry

Sebastien, Gisele, and Samuel Patterson,

Kyle Ann & Prasad Shanmugasundanam

The Children’s Liturgy Program will resume near the end of September, 2024.