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  • Kids Korner: Serving and helping Jesus (Feb. 4th)

    Read Mark 1:29-39 with your family. The Gospel of Mark moves fast. We aren’t even out of chapter 1 and already Jesus has been performing healings and teaching so much he has already become well known. This story starts with Peter’s mother-in-law who was very sick. Jesus asked her to ‘rise up’, the same word…

  • Sunday Reflection – January 28, 2024

    The Unclean Spirit Mark 1 21 Jesus and his disciples went to the town of Capernaum. Then on the next Sabbath he went into the synagogue and started teaching. 22  Everyone was amazed at his teaching. He taught with authority, and not like the teachers of the Law of Moses. 23 Suddenly a man with an unclean spirit in him entered…

  • Kids Korner: Be silent (Jan. 28th)

    Read Mark 1:21-28 with your family. This is the first story of healing in Mark’s Gospel. One of the curious things about this story is how the unclean spirit knew who Jesus really was, but none of the people around Jesus understood that he was the Messiah. Jesus didn’t want any of the people around…

  • Sunday Reflection – January 14, 2024

    Peter, Andrew, James and John Mark 1 14 After John was arrested, Jesus went to Galilee and told the good news that comes from God. 15  He said, “The time has come! God’s kingdom will soon be here. Turn back to God and believe the good news!” 16 As Jesus was walking along the shore of Lake Galilee, he saw…

  • Kids Korner: Follow me (Jan. 21st)

    Read Mark 1:14-20 with your family. Throughout Jesus’ ministry in Galilee and Judea, he asked many people to follow him. Women, men, children… everyone was invited to spend time with Jesus and learn about God’s love for them, and then share that love with their families, friends and neighbours. Jesus’ followers, known as ‘disciples’ went…

  • Sunday Reflection – January 14, 2024

    Jesus chooses Philip and Nathanael John 1 43-44 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. There he met Philip, who was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter. Jesus said to Philip, “Follow me.” 45 Philip then found Nathanael and said, “We have found the one that Moses and the Prophets wrote about. He is…

  • Kids Korner: Come and see (Jan. 14th)

    Read John 1:43-51 with your family. In the three Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, no one knows who Jesus is until almost the end. But in John, everyone knows Jesus is the Messiah from the beginning. The Hebrew people were waiting for the Messiah because they believed he would get rid of the Romans…

  • Sunday Reflection – Epiphany, January 7, 2024

    Mary has questions Matthew 2 When Jesus was born in the village of Bethlehem in Judea, Herod was king. During this time some wise men from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and said, “Where is the child born to be king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.” 3 When King…

  • Kids Korner: Following the star (Jan. 7th)

    Read Matthew 2:1-12 with your family. Epiphany, the celebration of the arrival of the wise ones, is the last part of the Advent-Christmas season. It is because the wise ones gave gifts to Jesus, that we give gifts as part of our Christmas celebrations. Those who followed the star were searching for something important, and…

  • Jesse Tree on Christmas Day, 2023

    The Jesse Tree is one of the oldest Christian traditions of the Advent/Christmas season. It dates back to the Middle Ages and tells our faith story from creation until the birth of Jesus.