Preparation

PLANNING A NON-EUCHARISTIC LITURGY

Date: Third Week of Lent

Feast:

Place: Classroom

Time: 20 minutes

Focus: Forgiveness and

following Gods
commandements.
Group: Year 5

Required Props (Cross, candles, symbol etc):

Cross, candles, violet cloths.
How will symbols be displayed/used? (What specific action?):
The colour violet will be displayed on the prayer space. The liturgy will revolve around the
reflection on the meaning behind the colour violet in Lent forgiveness, willingness to do
penance and to reflect on how we can be better.
Welcome:
Today we will reflect upon what it means to follow Gods
commandments and how we need to be willing to become
better people.

Listen (Liturgy of the

Word)

Gather (Introductory Rites)

Gathering Hymn:
Ashes to Easter Peter Kearney
Opening Prayer:
O God of generous mercy,
You lavish your love on our world.
You gave your Beloved Son into the darkness of death so that,
in his rising to new life, we might also be brought into the light
of life.
We rejoice in your abundant mercy, the gift of your grace
that lights our path.
May we always choose to walk in your light and emerge from
our shadowy exile into the radiance of true belonging the
delight of your gaze, and so come home to the light of faith.
We pray in the name of Jesus, the Light of the World, and in
the power of your Enlightening Spirit One God, for ever and
ever. Amen.

Reading/s:
Exodus 20: 1-17
1 Here are all of the words God spoke. He said,
2 I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt. That is
the land where you were slaves.
3 Do not put any other gods in place of me.
4 Do not make statues of gods that look like anything in the
sky or on the earth or in the waters. 5 Do not bow down to

Go & Tell (Concluding

Rites)

Share, Reflect,
Respond

them or worship them. I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I

punish the children for the sin of their parents. I punish the
grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who hate me. 6
But for all time to come I show love to all those who love me
and keep my commandments.
7 Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God. The Lord will
find guilty anyone who misuses his name.
8 Remember to keep the Sabbath day holy. 9 Do all of your
work in six days. 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath in honour
of the Lord your God. Do not do any work on that day. The
same command applies to your sons and daughters, your male
and female servants, and your animals. It also applies to any
outsiders who live in your cities. 11 In six days I made the
heavens and the earth. I made the oceans and everything in
them. But I rested on the seventh day. So I blessed the Sabbath
day and made it holy.
12 Honour your father and mother. Then you will live a long
time in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
13 Do not commit murder.
14 Do not commit adultery.
15 Do not steal.
16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
17 Do not long for anything that belongs to your neighbour.
Do not long for your neighbours house, wife, male or female
servant, ox or donkey.
Prayer/Reflection/Action:
To reflect upon the reading, we will close our eyes and think
about a time that we have done wrong and not obeyed one of
Gods commandments. We will go around the circle and ask
God for forgiveness.

Dismissal:
Today we reflected upon how God wanted us to make a
difference in the way we act by giving us the Ten
Commandments. Now we will go out and try to obey his
commandments better.
Concluding Hymn:
Go Make a Difference Steve Angrisano