Page 10 - TIJ ~ Confirmation - First Eucharist

Eating Together Is a Way of Making FriendsObjective (10 minutes)• The children will appreciate eating together as a time of remembering and sharing.Have the children gather in theopen space. Ask them when they eat together as a family. When else do they gather to eat? Maybe at special times like birthdays or holidays such as Thanksgiving or Christmas. Why are these times special? We share food and stories with one another. Have someof the children describe one of their meals. You might start by simply describing a mealtime from your house. For example: Mom puts the food on the table. Dad puts the bib on the baby. We pass the food around the table. We say grace. We eat and talk about what happened during the day.Have the children look at page 4. Read the title of the page together. Identify the picture of Jesus sharing a meal with Zacchaeus. Recall brie y what happened in that story.Look at the family meal picture. Have the children compare this to their family meal situation.Read the rst three sentences of the text aloud to conclude this part of the discussion.Read aloud the second part of the text. Conclude by explaining that the Mass is a special meal in which we share the Body and Blood of Christ.Have the children return to their work area. Locate the stickers for this page—the chalice and host stickers. Tell them that as they apply the stickers, you will read the bread and wine blessing prayers that the Jewish people use to bless their Sabbath food. As they apply the stickers, read the blessings.401Eating Together Is a Way of Making FriendsEating together is a way Jesus shares with his followers. Eating together is often a remembering and sharing time. Jesus and Zacchaeus become friends by eating together.Jesus grew up in a Jewish family. His family blessed bread and wine at every Sabbath meal. Our community blesses bread and wine at Mass.Then we share a meal as Jesus taught us.42 l Together in Jesus: Confirmation/First EucharistBlessed are you, God. You give us this bread to eat. You send sun and rain to make seeds grow. You give us hands to make them into bread. Thank you, God, for the earth that grows seeds and for hands that make bread.Blessed are you, God. You give us this wine to drink. You send sun and rain to fatten the grapes. YouFind the chalice and host stickers. Put them here.give us hands to make them into wine. Thank you, God, for the earth that grows grapes and for hands that make wine.WAY TO GO!PLACE YOUR LESSON 5 YOU FINISHED LESSON 5! STICKER HERE9 Conf-Euch_SE_ENG_L5_PRESS.indd 4 5/25/17 5:02 AMPRAYER RITUAL 5Thanking GodObjective (15 minutes)• The children will participate in a prayer service.Prepare the children for the prayer service. Distribute copies of Prayer Ritual 5.Explain that during this time, we will use the blessing prayers that the Jewish people used. Designate someone to be the leader.Explain that someone will hold up the bread (designate someone to do this) as someone else reads the blessing (designate a reader); another person will hold up the grape juice (designate someone), while a fourth person will read that blessing prayer (designate someone).Pray the prayer together.