Kids Grace Link 9-5-21

“He has done all things well.”

Mark 7:37

Read & Reflect

View the Mass readings for Sunday, then enhance your family’s liturgy experience using the weekly reflection questions and links.

Weekly Reflection Questions

  1. What was the condition of the man whom the people brought to Jesus to be healed? (he was deaf and could not hear or talk well)

  2. What did Jesus do to heal the man? (put his finger in his ear, touched his tongue, looked toward Heaven and said “Be Opened”)

  3. Why do you think Jesus took the man away from the crowd?

  4. Can you make your face look astonished (surprised) like the people who saw the healing Jesus had done?

  5. Why do you think Jesus ordered the witnesses not to tell anyone about the healing?

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  1. Visit the FORMED website and click Sign Up

  2. Choose “I belong to a Parish or Organization”

  3. Search “Edina”.

  4. Choose the “Our Lady of Grace” option and click “Next”

  5. Fill in your Name and Email Address in the appropriate fields and choose “Sign Up” to complete the signup process.

Kids Grace Link 8-29-21

“Be doers of the word and not hearers only...”

James 1:22

Read & Reflect

Take a moment to read the Mass readings for this week and reflect on the reading as a family using the questions and printable activity sheets below.

Weekly Reflection Questions - For Families with Kids (from James 1)

  1. Our questions today focus on the second reading from James. Where does James say our gifts come from? (Every perfect gift is from above, from the Father of Lights)

  2. Who do you think the Father of Lights is? (God)

  3. How does James say we should welcome the word that has been planted in us? (humbly)

  4. What does it mean to be humble?

  5. What does the word that has been planted in us have the power to do? (save our souls)

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Got Questions or Comments to Share?

We’d love to hear from you! Please contact Stephanie Lloyd at stephanielloyd@olgparish.org or fill out the form below with any questions or feedback you’d like to share with us.

Create a FORMED Account

  1. Visit the FORMED website and click Sign Up

  2. Choose “I belong to a Parish or Organization”

  3. Search “Edina”.

  4. Choose the “Our Lady of Grace” option and click “Next”

  5. Fill in your Name and Email Address in the appropriate fields and choose “Sign Up” to complete the signup process.

Kids Grace Link 8-22-21

“We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”

John 6:69

Read & Reflect

Take a moment to read the Mass readings for this week and reflect on the reading as a family using the questions and printable activity sheets below.

Weekly Reflection Questions - For Families with Kids

  1. From which gospel do we hear today? (John)

  2. When the people who were with Jesus said “This saying is hard, who can accept it,” what were they talking about? (Jesus told them he was the living bread that came down from heaven.)

  3. The gospel says many disciples left Jesus; to whom does Jesus address the question “Do you also want to leave?” (The Twelve, but also every disciple both then and now)

  4.  How do you think Jesus felt when so many people left him?

  5. Who answers Jesus by saying “We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God”? (Simon Peter)

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Resource Links for Catholic Parents

Got Questions or Comments to Share?

We’d love to hear from you! Please contact Stephanie Lloyd at stephanielloyd@olgparish.org or fill out the form below with any questions or feedback you’d like to share with us.

Create a FORMED Account

  1. Visit the FORMED website and click Sign Up

  2. Choose “I belong to a Parish or Organization”

  3. Search “Edina”.

  4. Choose the “Our Lady of Grace” option and click “Next”

  5. Fill in your Name and Email Address in the appropriate fields and choose “Sign Up” to complete the signup process.

Kids Grace Link 8-15-21

“Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”

Luke 1:42

Read & Reflect

Take a moment to read the Mass readings for this week and reflect on the reading as a family using the questions and printable activity sheets below.

Weekly Reflection Questions - For Families with Kids

  1. From which gospel do we hear today? (Luke)

  2. What is the special name given to this feast day when we honor Mary’s assumption into Heaven, body and soul? (Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

  3. As Mary greets Elizabeth, the baby in Elizabeth’s womb leaps with joy. What title does Elizabeth give to Mary? (The mother of my Lord)

  4. What do we call the special prayer that Mary prays to proclaim the greatness of God? (The Magnificat)

  5. Who is Mary’s child? (Jesus)

  6. Do you know why Catholics say Mary is their Mother too?

    (find out here: https://www.archspm.org/faith-and-discipleship/catholic-faith/why-do-we-call-mary-our-mother/)

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Resource Links for Catholic Parents

Got Questions or Comments to Share?

We’d love to hear from you! Please contact Stephanie Lloyd at stephanielloyd@olgparish.org or fill out the form below with any questions or feedback you’d like to share with us.

Create a FORMED Account

  1. Visit the FORMED website and click Sign Up

  2. Choose “I belong to a Parish or Organization”

  3. Search “Edina”.

  4. Choose the “Our Lady of Grace” option and click “Next”

  5. Fill in your Name and Email Address in the appropriate fields and choose “Sign Up” to complete the signup process.

Kids Grace Link 8-1-21

“This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”

John 6:29

Read & Reflect

Take a moment to read the Mass readings for this week and reflect on the reading as a family using the questions and printable activity sheets below.

Weekly Reflection Questions - For Families with Kids

  1. From which gospel do we hear today? (John)

  2. Where did the disciples go looking for Jesus? (Capernaum)

  3. Why did the disciples ask Jesus “What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you?” (Jesus told them they came looking for him because they ate the loaves and were filled. They missed the miracle of the loaves and fishes because they were no longer physically hungry.)

  4. Who does Jesus say gives them the true bread from heaven? (God)

  5. Who does Jesus say He is? (“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, 
    and whoever believes in me will never thirst.”)

  6. What is one way you can focus on the everyday miracles in your own life?

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Resource Links for Catholic Parents

Got Questions or Comments to Share?

We’d love to hear from you! Please contact Stephanie Lloyd at stephanielloyd@olgparish.org or fill out the form below with any questions or feedback you’d like to share with us.

Create a FORMED Account

  1. Visit the FORMED website and click Sign Up

  2. Choose “I belong to a Parish or Organization”

  3. Search “Edina”.

  4. Choose the “Our Lady of Grace” option and click “Next”

  5. Fill in your Name and Email Address in the appropriate fields and choose “Sign Up” to complete the signup process.

Kids Grace Link 7-25-21

“This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.”

John 6:14

Read & Reflect

Take a moment to read the Mass readings for this week and reflect on the reading as a family using the questions and printable activity sheets below.

Weekly Reflection Questions - For Families with Kids

  1. From which gospel do we hear today? (John)

  2. Jesus went up on the ________________, and there he sat with his disciples. (mountain)

  3. What does the gospel say Jesus was doing when he asked Philip where they could find enough food to feed the approaching crowd? (He was testing him, because he himself, knew what he was going to do)

  4. What food items did Andrew tell Jesus a nearby boy had? (five barley loaves and two fish)

  5. How many baskets were filled with the leftover fragments? (twelve)

  6. What did the people there say about the sign Jesus had done? (“This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.”)  

Bible Bag for Kids

Resource Links for Catholic Parents

Got Questions or Comments to Share?

We’d love to hear from you! Please contact Stephanie Lloyd at stephanielloyd@olgparish.org or fill out the form below with any questions or feedback you’d like to share with us.

Create a FORMED Account

  1. Visit the FORMED website and click Sign Up

  2. Choose “I belong to a Parish or Organization”

  3. Search “Edina”.

  4. Choose the “Our Lady of Grace” option and click “Next”

  5. Fill in your Name and Email Address in the appropriate fields and choose “Sign Up” to complete the signup process.

Kids Grace Link 07-18-21

“Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while’.”

Mark 6:7

Read & Reflect

Take a moment to read the Mass readings for this week and reflect on the reading as a family using the questions and printable activity sheets below.

Weekly Reflection Questions - For Families with Kids

  1. From which gospel do we hear today? (Mark)

  2. Who gathered together with Jesus, telling him all they had done and taught? (The apostles)

  3. How do you think the apostles felt while they were talking to Jesus about all they had done? (Excited, like they had so much to tell him, tired...)

  4. What does Jesus tell the apostles to do? (Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest awhile.)

  5. Who is waiting to greet Jesus and the apostles when they get off the boat? (A crowd)

  6. How does the gospel say Jesus responded to the crowd? (He was moved with pity for them and he began to teach them many things.)

  7. Share one thing you have learned from following Jesus.

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Kids Grace Link 07-11-21

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“Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two.”

Mark 6:7

Read & Reflect

Take a moment to read the Mass readings for this week and reflect on the reading as a family using the questions and printable activity sheets below.

Weekly Reflection Questions - For Families with Kids

  1. From which gospel do we hear today? (Mark)

  2. Who are the Twelve Jesus summoned and sent out two by two? (The disciples/apostles)

  3. What is one of the two things Jesus told the disciples to take with them? (A walking stick and sandals) 

  4. How did Jesus tell them to respond if they were not welcomed? (To shake the dust off their feet and move on.) 

  5. What kinds of things did the Twelve do in Jesus’s name? (cured the sick, anointed others with oil, preached repentance) 

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Family Activity

Try this fun memory game! 

  1. The first person says, "I'm taking a trip and I’m going to pack my _________________" filling in the blank with anything they would take on a trip, like shirt, pants, teddy bear, toothbrush, swim goggles, etc. 

  2. Each person repeats what the last person said, adds their own item, and so on.

  3. Make it cooperative by helping kids remember what comes next. 

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Got Questions or Comments to Share?

We’d love to hear from you! Please contact Stephanie Lloyd at stephanielloyd@olgparish.org or fill out the form below with any questions or feedback you’d like to share with us.