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part 1: The church is your home!
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The church is your home! When you come to church, we want you to know that you and your family are welcome here. This is your parish home! You are not a guest or a visitor, you are a part of our family!
Please watch this video with your child as we take a tour with Fr. Patrick of Good Shepherd Parish.
This video is available on our Good Shepherd Parish Lakeshore YouTube channel in the playlist "First Communion"
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Can you remember what Fr. Patrick showed us in the tour of the church? Do you remember what these iteams are? Do you remember what they are used for?
Hint: Make this review fun and see who can remember first, your child vs you (or an older sibling).
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Tabernacle
Host
Ambo
Monstrance
Altar
Book of the Gospels
Chalice
Sanctuary Lamp
Ciborium
Crucifix
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There is a Children's Missal booklet that is in your First Communion Material Package.
If you want, you can re-watch the video and follow along as Fr Patrick does the church tour. If you get stuck identifying any of these items, your book might have some clues!
Lost the book or want a digital copy?
Click here.
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Part 2: We follow IN JESUS' FOOTSTEPS
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Following Jesus
Remember the story of the boy with the loaves of bread and fishes? (We watched this video at the beginning). God used that boy to show what it means to share the gifts you have.
Jesus teaches people what it means to be a true follower, how to walk in his footsteps. Watch these two videos and then read the questions below.
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Video 1
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Video 2
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What would you do?
What would you do in these situations to follow in Jesus' footsteps? Parents: There are multiple appropriate answers
- Your parent makes your lunch for you, but when you open it up you find a vegetable you don’t really like. When you get home from school would you say thank you for the lunch or would you tell your parent what you didn’t like about your lunch? Or both?
- Sara is new at your school. When it is lunchtime she is not sure of what to do. You want to help Sara, but a few of the kids in your class tell you not be friends with her. What would you do?
- Your friends make fun of you for being friends with Sara, the new girl at your school. What would you do? Would you stop being friends with Sara? Would you tell your friend that you can be friends with both them and Sara? Would you tell your friends it is not nice to make fun of other people?
- In all of these situations, what would Jesus want you to do?
Following Jesus and doing what he wants us to do isn’t always easy. Following Jesus means we listen and follow Jesus with our heart and our actions. How we treat others is showing others how much we love Jesus and how we treat him.
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part 3: Help us grow our "good deed" Tree!
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Jesus can work miracles, even with you! He does this every day. Jesus said, let your light shine before others. When people know we believe and follow Jesus they see the good deeds we do, because Jesus wants us to let our light shine by doing good deeds for others. Jesus wants us to love and care for other people.
We have seen how Jesus shows his wonderful love to us in so many ways. As the children prepare to receive Jesus in their first Holy Communion, we encourage them to try to live and love like Jesus did. Jesus gave a gift of Himself. We can give the gift of ourselves to others too!
Over the next few weeks we encourage you and your child to think of some good deeds they can do at home. For example, helping a family member, sharing a new toy, being kind a sibling, working together to do chores. There are lots of ideas of good deeds!
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PRAYERS TO TRY & TO LEARN
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LORD'S PRAYER
Our Father, who are in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
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HAIL MARY
Hail Mary, full of grace
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed are you
among women,
And blessed is the fruit
of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God
Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
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PRAYER OF PRAISE
Glory be to the Father
and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit;
As it was in the beginning,
is now and will be forever.
Amen.
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YOU ARE ALL DONE! Great Job!The rest is just for parents
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