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Hey Kids! Bulletin Article – April 13, 2025
Hey, Kids! – The Passion of Christ can be a very difficult part of history to read about. There are so many parts of the story that can sadden anyone’s heart. Jesus is betrayed by his friend Judas. Peter denied knowing him. Then, Jesus was tortured and hung on a cross. If you are lucky enough to belong to a parish that performs the Passion of Christ, it truly is a great gift to really help us understand what Jesus went through on his final days. It gives us the ability to see and hear, and it can be very powerful.
You may wonder why it is so important to see this happen every year. It’s hard to watch. I think about how Jesus must have felt knowing he was going to be betrayed, denied and tortured. and there was nothing he could do about it. I always get sad when I see Mother Mary cry as she holds her son after he died. I think about how it must have been so hard for his friends to watch him suffer and die in such a cruel way.
Although it is very sad to see and hear this part of history, we need to be reminded of what Jesus did for US! When we walk into our churches, we see Jesus on a cross. It is a constant reminder that Jesus died for our sins. It is something we should never take for granted. Taking something for granted means that we easily forget or we don’t think it is important. It is SO important to know that Jesus died for our sins. He did it because he loved us and he wanted us to be in heaven with God, our Father! He showed us how to get along with one another so that we could have peace on earth and everyone could be saved.
We may only hear the Passion story one time a year but there is a section in this story that we celebrate each time we attend Mass. It is the Holy Eucharist. When the priest turns the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, we are remembering the sacrifices that Jesus made for us. We remember and reflect on how Jesus wanted us to love one another and to be in heaven with God. We celebrate him during this time.
Let us pray: Heavenly Father, what an amazing hero Jesus was and is for us! Thank you for sending him to save ME! Thank you for letting me know that You love me and that you sent Jesus to tell me your message! Help me to always remember and to never take You for granted. Amen.
Hey Kids! Bulletin Article – April 6, 2025
Hey, Kids! – When I was a little girl, I remember I didn’t do my homework for one of my classes. I knew I was going to get in trouble for not doing my assignment. I was so nervous. What am I going to do when the teacher comes by to collect my homework? So I started asking around, “Hey, did you do your homework?” I kept going around asking my classmates if they did their homework and sure enough, I found someone else who forgot. BINGO! So, when the teacher came around to collect homework, I said, “I forgot to do it but so did she! So I’m not the only one.” The teacher wasn’t too pleased with me.
- I forgot to do my homework.
- I tattled on a classmate.
- I judged someone else’s behavior to overshadow my own bad behavior.
Not good. I was asked to take a note home to my parents and got a much-deserved punishment.
I reflect on that day because there were many lessons to be learned. I should have done what I was supposed to do – my homework. I also should not have called out other people who didn’t do their homework. More importantly, I knew I did wrong. Why was it so important for me to bring someone else down with me? What business was it of mine to call out what they did as wrong? I was no better than she was. I did wrong and my focus should have been on my own behavior, not someone else’s.
In today’s Gospel, a woman is found committing what they believed was a sin. They wanted to catch Jesus in a legal trap – they wanted him to scold the woman. However, Jesus did something else. He bent down and wrote on the ground and said, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” One by one, each person left. Soon it was Jesus alone with the woman, and he said to her, “Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”
The main message of this story is that it can be easier for some of us to point out the sins in others. The people that called out the woman’s behavior could not stand there and say that they had never committed a sin. It is wrong to judge others, and Jesus pointed that out to them.
It is God’s job to judge us. It is not our job to go around calling out each other’s sins. Let us remember this. When we see people behaving badly, ask yourself, “Do I behave this way? Can I improve and do better?” It also is important to know that no matter what our sins may be, God will be our judge. We can always change our behavior and our Father will see that our heart is pure; no one else can do that!
Dear God, we thank you for sending Jesus to show us how to behave. Amen.