Vocation Dress-Up
Using clothes from around your home, create outfits to dress up as saints who had different vocations. It may be your favorite saints, saints from different time periods, or new saints you are just learning about. Search the Internet to find pictures and dress up as saints who served God in the following ways:
Prayer Journaling
Sometimes it takes time to understand the meaning of the Gospel. Journaling is a great way to unpack the words and talk to God.
Create a simple prayer journal or get an empty notebook. Set aside 10-20 minutes for your family to reflect on the Gospel. Create a prayerful environment by lighting candles and/or playing instrumental music in the background. Read today's Gospel and invite everyone to listen to what God is saying to them in the silence of their hearts. After a period of quiet, invite everyone to write what they heard in their journal; younger children can draw or doodle. At the end of your reflection time, take turns sharing your experience. Close your time in prayer by saying the Our Father together.
Those distributing Holy Communion hold a ciborium, which is a vessel used to hold the consecrated hosts-the Body of Christ. Describe the ciboriums you see today.
Fishing was often done at night around the Sea of Galilee so that fish could not see and swim around the nets. Nylon nets prevent this problem in modern times, but in Jesus's time, fishermen used nets made of flax or linen.
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