Lectionary Links: Sunday, March 11, 2012

Third Sunday in Lent Year B: March 11, 2012 First Reading: Exodus 20:1-17 Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten? by Audrey Vernick (Written for ages 3 and up) Comment: In today’s first text we read the Ten Commandments. They are a way of telling us how to live our lives and what rules we need to follow to [...]

Lectionary Links: Sunday, October 16, 2011

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A:  October 16th, 2011 First Reading:  Exodus 33: 12-23 Because You are My Baby by Jennifer Ward (Written for ages  4-8) God’s presence is intimately with Moses and the people of Israel in their journey to the promised land.  God says “My presence will go with you, and I [...]

Lectionary Links: Sunday, October 9, 2011

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A:  October 9, 2011 First Reading:  Exodus 32: 1-14 The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (Written for ages  4-8) Comment:  God tells Moses that the people of Israel whom Moses has left at the foot of mountain have “been quick to turn aside from the way that [...]

Lectionary Links: Sunday, October 2, 2011

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A:  October 2nd, 2011 (World Communion Sunday) First Reading:  Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 If Everybody Did by Jo Ann Stover (Written for ages 3-5) Comment:  This passage outlines the ten commandments given to the people of Israel by God.  These commandments were intended to protect people and to keep [...]

Lectionary Links: Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A:  September 25th, 2011 First Reading:  Exodus 17: 1-7 I Will Surprise My Friend!  by Mo Willems (Written for ages 4-8 ) Comment:  This story from Exodus contains an awesome surprise.  Just when the Israelites are most thirsty, just when they’re complained to Moses and God and still seen [...]

Lectionary Links: Sunday, September 18, 2011

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A:  September 18th, 2011 First Reading:  Exodus 16:2-15 Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban (Written for ages 4-8 ) Comment:  The Israelites complain that what they ate in Egypt would be better than where they are now, with no food in sight!  Moses tells them to cry [...]

Lectionary Links: Sunday, Sept. 4 and Sept. 11, 2011

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A:  September 4, 2011 First Reading:  Exodus 12:1-14 Passover:  Celebrating Now, Remembering Then by Harriet Ziefert (Written for ages 4-8) Comment:  In this passage, God institutes the celebration of Passover, saying, “This day shall be a day of remembrance for you”.  Each of the rituals described will keep the [...]

Lectionary Links: Sunday, Aug. 21 and Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A: August 21, 2011 First Reading: Exodus 1:8-2:10 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Written for ages 12+) Comment: “The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They [...]

Lectionary Links: Sunday, March 27, 2011

3rd Sunday in Lent Year A: March 27, 2011 Old Testament Reading: Exodus 17: 1-7 The Water Hole by Graeme Base (Written for Ages 5-8) Comment: “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” The Israelites fear of death was a valid anxiety; people, animals, [...]

Lectionary Links: Sunday, March 6, 2011

Transfiguration of the Lord Year A:  March 6, 2011 Old Testament Reading:  Exodus 24:12-18 Come On, Rain by Karen Hesse (written for ages 5-7) Comment: In this reading Moses is called by God to ascend a mountain and wait.  Moses has another ‘holy encounter’.  After this period of waiting there is fire and a cloud [...]