"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you."
- John 14:27
For today's liturgy, [Caroline] thought to discuss how this line from the Gospel reading is part of the Mass (in the Rite of Peace).
I looked everywhere for an appropriate craft, but could find none, so I came up with my own - why not? - . I found the following dove illustration:http://www.chthulhu.com/Peace_in_Paper/models/anonymous/Dove.gif which I thought might be nice since you could hang it up and it would look like it is flying.
I looked everywhere for an appropriate craft, but could find none, so I came up with my own - why not? - . I found the following dove illustration:http://www.chthulhu.com/Peace_in_Paper/models/anonymous/Dove.gif which I thought might be nice since you could hang it up and it would look like it is flying.
I also made a table with “Peace I leave you” and “My peace I give you” in the two columns and cut them out. These would be glued on either side of the dove.
For some reason we don't have a hold punch in our box of stationary, so I had to bring one from home. A single hole punch will work much easier than a three-hole punch.
The crowd was very small that day - just my two kids! So things went fast. I read the passage to them, then we got to work. While we coloured and cut the dove out, I asked them if this the phrase “Peace I leave you, my peace I give you” sounded at all familiar. Neither of them knew, so I pointed out that it is in the Rite of Peace, just before everyone shakes hands.
This went reasonably well. I liked the dove in particular and could think of other times when it might be useful - lots of opportunities to use doves in Children’s Liturgy!
- Caroline
This went reasonably well. I liked the dove in particular and could think of other times when it might be useful - lots of opportunities to use doves in Children’s Liturgy!
- Caroline