Sunday Liturgy Planning Guide

Features:

• Provides everything you need to plan the Sunday liturgy with children.
• Includes suggested resources.
• Complete outline with space for you to plan your celebration.
• Engages children in Listen/Reflect/Respond meditation process. (Recommended by Los Angeles Cardinal Mahoney in his Pastoral Letter.)
• Suggestions for music and gestures
  
• Background notes on the liturgical season and scriptures.
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Features of Reflection Activities:

• Reproduce these sheets for the use during catechetical session or at home.
• Respects child's religious potential.
  Avoids activities (such as follow-the-dot designs and mazes) that distracts children from deeper reflection.

Guiding Liturgical Principles:

• Maintains integrity of liturgy as ritual celebration of God's presence in the word.
• Respects spiritual life of children and the formative influence of liturgical experience
• Involves children in the creative activity of ritual-making and avoids distracting arts and crafts activities.
• Engages the child's imagination whereby children have access to the mystery of God's presence in their lives.
• Trust the power of liturgical symbol and biblical imagery to capture the child's natural sense of wonder and awe.
• Prayer & praise--the celebration of God's relationship with us and our relationship with each other in Christ

Catechetical Supplement:

• For use in parish religion programs, parochial schools, catechumenal gatherings, intergenerational family catechesis.
• Follows reflection process that engages the children's imagination in listening to God's word, reflecting upon life in light of God's word, and responding to God's word within one's heart and with one's hands.
• Provides ideas on how to engage children in ritual prayer.
• Builds on experience of God's presence in Liturgy of the Word.