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SONG: I am the Bread of life (join in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdRDgaOgJlA OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7y-NZocIwo

SIGN OF THE CROSS: In name of the Father… OR Ki te ingoa…. Haere mai! Welcome. Today is the Sunday of the Body and Blood of Christ. This is a wonderful day because we are reminded that we are the Body of Christ. Let’s Pray together the Prayer of St Teresa of Avila.Males Let nothing disturb you. Females Let nothing frighten you. Males All things pass. Females God does not change. Males Patience achieves everything. Females Whoever has God lacks nothing. Males God alone suffices. Females Christ has no body now on earth but yours; Males no hands but yours; Females No feet but yours. Males Yours are the eyes through which the compassion of Christ must look out on the world. Females Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good. ALL Yours are the hands with which He is to bless His people.

Discuss – What do you think the people in the photo are doing -and why do you think they are doing it? How does the photo relate to the prayer of St Teresa?

COLLECT - READER Let’s think about or talk about all the things we want to pray for. (Allow silence, 1 minute)

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Family FridayA Liturgy of the Word in preparation for Sunday: Body and Blood of Christ

June 14th

Prior activities for families: grind wheat into flour, make flour into bread – create different bread shapes, circles, buns, clover leaf. Collect or draw desert images. Find out about peoples who live in the desert. Visit a beach, make sand buildings, talk about how easily they blow or wash away, and why living in a desert might be hard. Preparation – allow some time to prepare

Read through the outline beforehand Arrange seating and set a prayer focus in the centre. Include 3 in 1 symbols – (e.g.

clover or other leaves) as part of your prayer focus, or anything children have prepared or made.

There are some links to open beforehand. A song at the beginning, and end, a psalm. Two links for the reflection after the Gospel.

Share the reader role, practice beforehand, pause for commas and full-stops, avoid correcting readers.

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Wonderful God, you make the wind blow and the desert move. Thank you for your great love for us. Help us learn to love others. We pray to you Father, through Jesus Christ your Son and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. All: Amen. First READING: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14-16 International Children’s BibleREADER 1 Remember how the Lord your God has led you in the desert for these 40 years.READER 2 He took away your pride. He tested you. READER 1 He wanted to know what was in your heart. READER 2 He wanted to know if you would obey his commands. READER 1 He took away your pride. He let you get hungry. READER 2 Then he fed you with manna. READER 1 Manna was something neither you nor your ancestors had ever seen. READER 2 This was to teach you that a person does not live only by eating bread. READER 1 But a person lives by everything the Lord says. READER 2 He brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you were slaves.  READER 1 He led you through the large and terrible desert. READER 2 It was dry and had no water. READER 1 It had poisonous snakes and stinging insects. READER 2 He gave you water from a solid rock. READER 1 He gave you manna to eat in the desert. READER 2 Manna was something your ancestors had never seen. READER 1 The Word of the LordALL Thanks be to GodDiscuss: What did we hear? After a time of talking, allow some time for silent reflection or meditation. PSALM:Let’s sing and think about the words in this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVbLQh-lT0

GOSPEL: John 6 :51-58 International Children’s BibleREADER 1 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. READER 2 If anyone eats this bread, they will live forever. READER 1 This bread is my flesh. I will give my flesh so that the people in the world may have life.”READER 2 Then the Jews began to argue among themselves. They said, READER 1 “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said, READER 2 “I tell you the truth. You must eat the flesh of the Son of Man. READER 1 And you must drink his blood. If you don’t do this, then you won’t have real life in you. READER 2 Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.READER 1 I will raise him up on the last day. READER 2 My flesh is true food. My blood is true drink. READER 1 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I live in him. READER 2 The Father sent me. The Father lives, and I live because of the Father. READER 1 So anyone who eats me will live because of me. READER 2 I am not like the bread our ancestors ate. READER 1 They ate that bread, but still they died. READER 2 I am the bread that came down from heaven. READER 1 They who eats this bread will live forever.” READER 2 The Gospel of the Lord.ALL Thanks be to God.Discuss: What do we think ‘living bread’ means? What might Jesus have meant by that. (Remember to welcome all answers that are given, no-one needs to feel they got something wrong.)

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Follow the discussion with silence. Let some words go over and over in your mind.

REFLECTION: Maybe you would like to sing and dance along with this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ8jc2psEd4

Prayer of the Faithful:READER - the response to the petitions is, ‘and renew the face of the earth.’ Lord send out your Spirit, All and renew ….For the Church – that, those who eat and drink the Body and Blood of Christ will overcome divisions and live in unity.

(Silence) Reader: Lord send out your Spirit All: And renew the face of the earth.For people who are starving – that we learn to share food and possessions more fairly. (Silence) Reader: Lord send out your Spirit All: And renew the face of the earth.For children are hungry– that they will have nourishing food and that they will be able to live healthy and meaningful lives.

(Silence) Reader: Lord send out your Spirit All: And renew the face of the earth.For voluntary workers – that by seeing them, other people will become more generous.

(Silence) Reader: Lord send out your Spirit All: And renew the face of the earth.For people who are always trying to make more money – that they will learn to seek spiritual riches.

(Silence) Reader: Lord send out your Spirit All: And renew the face of the earth.For people who have to find a new home in another country – that they will be welcomed.

(Silence) Reader: Lord send out your Spirit All: And renew the face of the earth.For refugee camps battling Covid 19 – that people will not be left to suffer and die alone, but that there will be medical support, healing and an end to this pandemic.

(Silence) Reader: Lord send out your Spirit All: And renew the face of the earth.

ALL We make these prayers through Jesus the Son. Amen.READER: And now let us pray together as Jesus taught us: Choose Māori or EnglishMāori at this link https://www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/liturgy/mass-readings-in-te-reo/

Our Father, who art 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,

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E to mātou Matua i te rangi,kia whakatapua tōu Ingoa,kia tae mai tōu rangatiratanga,…kia whakaritea tōu hiahiai te whenua, kia pērā anō i to te rangi.Hōmai ki a mātou āianeihe taro mā mātou mō tēnei rā.Whakakāhoretia ō mātou hara,me mātou e whakakore nei,i ngā hara o te hunga,e hara ana ki a mātou;kaua mātou e tukua, kia whakawaia,engari, whakaorangia, mātou i

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but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.

READER: Something that Christian people do is support people who need help. There are lots of people who need help. Let’s talk about who needs help and let’s find one way to help. Discuss

READER: We go now to love and be kind to everyone we meet. Kia tau te rangimārie ki a koutou – Peace be with you. May God bless us and all the people we meet each day. All: Thanks be to God.

DANCE: Let’s sing and dance again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ8jc2psEd4…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

ExtrasI am the Bread of Life, video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNWVEVGsiAOr watch this animated video – I am the Bread of Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZD6U21E6mQ

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E to mātou Matua i te rangi,kia whakatapua tōu Ingoa,kia tae mai tōu rangatiratanga,…kia whakaritea tōu hiahiai te whenua, kia pērā anō i to te rangi.Hōmai ki a mātou āianeihe taro mā mātou mō tēnei rā.Whakakāhoretia ō mātou hara,me mātou e whakakore nei,i ngā hara o te hunga,e hara ana ki a mātou;kaua mātou e tukua, kia whakawaia,engari, whakaorangia, mātou i