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The Children’s Word is a weekly bulletin for Orthodox Christian young people. Copyright 2017 Alexandra Houck.
Email is orthodoxchildrensword (at) gmail.com. Find it each week at myocn.net.
The Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
“Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them, for to such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Mark 10:14
Sunday, November 19, 2017 Volume 5, Issue 47
Joined together in ChristJoined together in ChristJoined together in ChristJoined together in Christ Have you ever watched your
priest or deacon use his censer?
Do you watch where he censes? He censes the
altar, and he blesses the holy things. He censes
the icons, and we remember the saints in the
pictures. He censes the people, and we remem-
ber that we want to be like the saints too.
When the priest or deacon censes the whole
church, we remember that we are all one body, one church. We have dif-
ferences, but we are all one church.
We hear the same thing in the epistle reading today. Our Lord, Jesus
Christ came to bring us together, to bring us to Him in heaven! Saint Paul
writes in the epistle today, “You are citizens with the saints and also mem-
bers of the household of God.” In Jesus, we are all “joined together and
grow into a holy temple in the Lord.” The church is one body together.
The saints who have already died are together with us as a church. We are
all one body together. We are all joined together and we grow into a holy
temple in the Lord.
So, the next time you see your priest or deacon censing, watch! You’ll re-
member that he is censing one church body. You’ll remember that we are
all joined together to grow into a holy temple in the Lord.
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Here is a closeup of an icon of the
this week’s feastday. You can see
little Mary and the priest.
Do you see how her mother and fa-
ther are guiding her along? They are
helping her to grow close to God.
What’s in an icon?
WORD SEARCHWORD SEARCHWORD SEARCHWORD SEARCH
Can you find these
words in the word
jumble?
ENTRANCE
EPHESIANS
EPISTLE
GREAT FEAST
ONE BODY
TEMPLE
THEOTOKOS
TOGETHER
G Y A E I W O E I J E K R T Q
C L O C I Q E K P W X E X E C
J Y I N J E C Q O I H U Z M Z
V G X A L U L O D T S C U P W
H P J R C E P W E G I T O L I
G A E T S P I G R Z R C L E W
K N L N P N O E J P S T J E J
G V I E F T A S L Q B H Q O C
F F X V O T O I Z Q G L P C H
L O X I F E E A S K C I W X N
O B Y E R J C O N E B O D Y V
H X A M U F X D A L H V U Y F
E S A S P E F C A P W P G K D
T H E H N H G H G I V T E N V
L T K V W S O K O T O E H T I
THE ENTRANCE INTO THE TEMPLE THE THEOTOKOS GIVES HER LIFE TO GOD
Have you ever been to
a baptism (that you can
remember)? Or maybe
you’ve seen a little baby being
brought to the church for the
first time when he was only 40
days old? You might remember
how special these services are. A
little child begins his life in our holy Church!
This week, we celebrate one of the 12 great feasts of our Orthodox
Church. On this day, we remember when Mary, the Theotokos, en-
tered the temple. She lived there until she was engaged to Joseph.
And not too long after that, baby Jesus was born to her!
On this day too, we remember how Mary began her life, close to God.
And she lived her whole life close to God. Even now, she is close to
God in heaven.
When you were brought to the church to be baptized, your parents
wanted you to be close to God. They prayed for you to be close to God
not just on that day, but for all your life! Of course, you don’t have to
live on the church grounds to dedicate your life to God. You can try to
make good choices that God is happy with too. Let’s use the Theoto-
kos as our example, and always stay close to God and His holy
Church!
We celebrate this great feastday on Tuesday, Nov. 21st (Dec. 4th, OC).