Hi
everyone,
I wanted
to give some details on next Sunday, since we will be doing things a little
differently with the CGS program.
Father
Gabriel has asked us to participate in the 9:30 a.m. Palm Sunday Mass
processional up to church. Because the rest
of the congregation will also be meeting in the PAR for prayers before the
processional, there may be a large group in the PAR. So I’m asking parents to follow these
procedures:
Processional
procedures
1) Bring
their children into one of our regular rooms;
Ms. Elise, catechists and junior helpers will direct you to the correct
room.
2) Please
check in your child using the check-in sheet, but your child does not need
his/her name tag. Each child will be
given a name tag with the name of one of Jesus’ disciples. (This is something we will be using when we
return to our rooms after the processional.)
3) Those
children who were at last Sunday’s session will have a palm (made out of their handprint, which we traced
last Sunday) to carry.
IF YOUR CHILD WAS NOT AT LAST SUNDAY’S
SESSION, PLEASE WORK WITH YOUR CHILD TO MAKE A ‘HANDPRINT PALM’ FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS HERE:
http://tillerytimes.blogspot.com/2012/04/palm-sunday-2012.html
(Please take a few moments to do this; I want to make sure no child feels left out because s/he doesn't have a palm to carry.)
3) We’ll
wait in the room and then move into the larger section of the PAR when the
prayers begin. I would like all the CGS
families to stay together at the end of the processional line.
This will make it easier for the catechists and junior helpers to
collect your children when we reach the narthex. We will process to the far side of the
narthex near the entrance to the cry room.
At this point, you can enter the
church and we’ll take the group of children downstairs back to the PAR. If you think your child might suffer a bit of
separation anxiety, please feel free to walk back with us.
This
week’s CGS session
I
originally planned to do a small “Liturgy of the Light” celebration with the
children, but this would be a bit difficult with the processional starting the
PAR. Instead, we are going to do the
Last Supper Paraliturgy, which is basically a re-enacting of the Last
Supper. Last Sunday in the atrium I used
a small diorama and wood peg people to tell the story of Jesus’ Last Supper, so this will reinforce the message of that
lesson. .
We will
sit around a long low table that has been placed on the floor and the junior
helpers will act out the Last Supper for us.
We pass around matzo (unleavened bread) on a paten to share (each person
is invited to break off a piece) and grape juice in a chalice (sipping the
juice is optional). After singing some
songs, we then enjoy a snack of matzo bread and grape juice (juice in individual
cups).
IF THERE ARE ANY ALLERGIES TO
MATZO BREAD OR GRAPE JUICE PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
We will
wait for you to pick us up in our atrium
room using the usual pick-up procedure.
(The poster board with the index cards and name tags will be back in the
larger PAR room when you return.)
This is
such a wonderful, memorable celebration for the children! At the other CGS atria where I’ve been a
catechist, the children love this paraliturgy because it makes this important
moment more real for them. Every year
as we would draw close to Palm Sunday, they would ask “are we going to act out
the Last Supper again this year?”
If you
have any questions, please drop me an email.
Blessings,
Cheryl
Cheryl
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