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Becky Parker
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Wow! I really love the ideas in other posts about the Bible study notebook and the Mary notebook and the 1st Communion notebook!!! I don't know if it's crazy or not but I want to do them all next year! I also am trying to think of a way to make the study of the Mass into a notebook. This would mainly be for my 12 yo and 7 yo but I am hoping that understanding it a little better will also be helpful to my 5yo who behaves horribly at Mass. Any ideas or resourses for a notebook about the Mass?
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Becky,
I'm being pulled in a million directions this morning but I want to direct you to the archives. Your two older children are the perfect ages to do Alice's incredible Easter Vigil notebook project. If you take the time to read it now and begin after the first of the year, they will thoroughly study the Mass before Easter and make some very meaningful notebooks.
For your little guy, the Easter Vigil notebook is at least partly do-able. I did it with a six-year-old last year in the context of CGS and First communion prep. I'll try to put together some concrete ideas that draw on Montessori's Mass presentations.
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Elizabeth thank you so much for mentioning this!
Becky, as Elizabeth said, the Easter Vigil Notebook project is a study of the Mass in notebook form. There are a few elements that do not take place in all Masses, but, for the most part, it takes the children through all the parts of the Mass, creating a Mass book to take to Church with them. You could easily adapt it as a "Mass Notebook" with a few minor simplifications using a missalette as your guide.
We completed the project with an 11, 9, 7, and 5 year old last year (with the five year old mostly coloring, drawing, and having fun!). It was a bit much to complete in 40 days, but with more time, you could really do a thorough and simple presentation.
Even my seven year old really enjoyed the Easter Vigil last year because she could anticipate everything that was taking place and had a deeper understanding of the beauty in every Mass.
Here is the link: archives.
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Thank you Elizabeth and Alice! Quite a while ago, I actually made a mental note to myself (it should have been a written note!) to print the Easter Vigil Notebook thread when I got printer ink. Well, it took a long time to get the ink and I guess I'm so scattered I completely forgot about it. Now that I have ink I will definitely print it. It is wonderful! You ladies are so gifted. What would people like me do without you?!
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Becky, you are too kind! Thanks!
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A couple of years ago, we made a lapbook on the Mass. I used some of Alice's ideas and some of my own.
We made a water font using the orgami cup fold, I bought special gold paper for this, then we took a cotton ball, smooshed blue chalk and colored the cotton ball, then glued it inside the cup to represent the water. We discussed Baptism and renewing our promise everytime we bless ourselves in Church.
I copied a Crucifix from a coloring book and put that on the inside of the lapbook, then made a table out of brown construction paper, which formed a pocket and glued it with the Crucifix. I have pictures of the vessels used in the Mass from Our Father's House, which I reduced a little and cut out, put in a bag, and stored it in the pocket from the Altar Table
We cut out little Chausables and colored them, Pasted them to a matchbox fold paper and wrote on the inside what each color represented and when it was used. This is what we did, but what I had wanted to do was to make a paper doll Priest and the different Chausables for him to wear so you could change them each week.
I also have a set of cards on the Mass. Each card has a picture and a part of the Mass, I am sorry I don't know where I got them, but we glued them in order on the lapbook.
We also made a Tabernacle for the front. I folded a piece of gold cardboard in thirds, so it would look like to door opening out and on the inside we pasted a picture of the Chalice with a Crucific over the Chalice and a glow around the whole thing. We then pasted this passage underneath it. "Jesus gave up His Body and Blood for us on the Cross to free us from our sins. He gives us His Body and Blood in the Eucharist to unite us with Him. He frees us from our sins, gives us life and nourishes our soul with grace!"
I also added another piece of cardstock to the lapbook, right in front of the Altar, that has flowers and butterflies around a passage from "Of Water and the Spirit, Benziger Publishing Company,
Eucharist
What does it mean to receive Christ's Body?
to receive Christ's Blood?
Why do we do it?
What does it mean?
It's hard to explain really.
But when you think of every day,
and every day's work,
and every day's problems,
you begin to understand.
It wasn't enough for God, being God,
to come to earth a long time ago,
He had to think of a way to be with us NOW
And so he did.
Jesus came to live for us - to die - to rise - and to be with us each moment, each hour, each day.
And one of the great things about Eucharist is that every time someone says to us,
'Body of Christ' and 'Blood of Christ'
and we receive Eucharist,
we know we are part of one another, too;
we are all brothers, all sisters.
And Jesus, who makes us one,
feeds us and keeps us going on the way-
every day.
'This is my Body. This is my Blod.'"
On the back of this page we pasted all the names of the vessels and what they were.
I hope you can use some of these ideas.
God Bless
Robynn in Lancaster, CA
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