Author: Paul Skippen

This liturgy is designed to help primary students prayerfully remember and celebrate the life of Pope Francis. Through simple prayer, scripture, story, song, and reflection, students are invited to honour his love for Jesus, he care for others, and his deep joy....

They tried yet again to arrest him, but he slipped through their fingers. He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptised, and stayed there. A lot of people followed him over. They were saying, “John did no miracles, but everything...

“His father said, ‘Son, you don’t understand. You’re with me all the time, and everything that is mine is yours – but this is a wonderful time, and we had to celebrate. This brother of yours was dead, and he’s alive! He was lost, and...

Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wild. For forty wilderness days and nights he was tested by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when the time was up he was...