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  • Kids Korner: The Holy Spirit (June 5th)

    Read Acts 2:1-21 with your family. Pentecost (meaning “50 days” in Greek), was a festival for the Hebrew people where they celebrated the harvest of wheat, read the whole story of Ruth, remembered King David, and recognized the anniversary of Moses getting the 10 Commandments from Mount Sinai. It was an important time and the…

  • Sunday Reflection, Ascension – May 29, 2022

      Jesus Returns To Heaven 44 Jesus said to them, “While I was still with you, I told you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Books of the Prophets, and in the Psalms had to happen.” 45 Then he helped them understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them: The Scriptures say that the Messiah must…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus Leaves (May 29th)

    Read Luke 24:44-53 with your family. Remember back to Good Friday, how sad everyone was that Jesus had died? Jesus came back Easter morning and everyone was shocked. Then they started getting used to Jesus appearing to his closest followers and they were happy again. This week we hear about Jesus leaving for good, but…

  • Sunday Reflection, Easter VI – May 22, 2022

      Promise of the Holy Spirit 23 Jesus replied: If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them. 24 But anyone who doesn’t love me, won’t obey me. What they have heard me say doesn’t really come from me, but from the Father…

  • Kids Korner: A New Kind of Peace (May 22nd)

    Read John 14:23-29 with your family. We experience God in three relationships: one with God as a parent or creator, one with God in human form as Jesus, and one with God as the Holy Spirit flowing around us and into our hearts. Jesus was trying to explain that to his followers that long ago…

  • Sunday Reflection, Easter V – May 15, 2022

      A New Commandment: Love Each Other John 1331 After Judas had gone, Jesus said: Now the Son of Man will be given glory, and he will bring glory to God. 32 Then, after God is given glory because of him, God will bring glory to him, and God will do it very soon. 33  My children, I will…

  • Kids Korner: Love one another (May 15th)

    Read John 13:31-35 with your family. Jesus told us we were supposed to love one another. The love Jesus was talking about wasn’t just a feeling, it was meant to be an action. Christianity is about love in action… that is our faith. We love and worship God, and we show that love by how…

  • Sunday Reflection, Easter IV – May 8, 2022

      My Sheep Know Me John 10 22  That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the festival of Dedication. 23 One day he was walking in the part of the temple known as Solomon’s Porch, 24 and the people gathered all around him. They said, “How long are you going to keep us guessing? If you are the Messiah,…

  • Kids Korner: My people know me (May 8th)

    Read John 10:22-30 with your family. This story took place while Jesus was celebrating Hanukkah (Festival of the Dedication) in Jerusalem. People were waiting for a Messiah, a saviour who would defeat the Romans, and they believed that saviour would be either a powerful king or a warrior who would rise up an army. The…

  • Sunday Reflection, Easter III – May 1, 2022

      Jesus Commissions Peter John 21 Jesus later appeared to his disciples along the shore of Lake Tiberias. 2 Simon Peter, Thomas the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, and the brothers James and John, were there, together with two other disciples. 3 Simon Peter said, “I’m going fishing!” The others said, “We will go with you.” They went out in…