Children’s Liturgy of the Word 2025-2026

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LTP, Mar 1, 2025 - Religion - 272 pages

The celebration of the Liturgy of the Word with children is a liturgical experience that opens young people to hear and respond to God’s Word in ways that enable them to be nurtured and challenged by its power, and to experience the grace of ongoing conversion to the vision and values of the Word of God.


Children's Liturgy of the Word 2025–2026 enables prayer leaders to confidently lead children through the Liturgy of the Word. Each liturgy guide offers:


An overview of the season

Weekly guides for leading and preparing the liturgy

Suggestions for the liturgical environment

Weekly Scripture citations and commentary on all three readings and the responsorial psalm

Weekly Scriptural connections to Church teaching and tradition

Weekly reflections for the children's Liturgy of the Word


The liturgy guides will enable prayer leaders to facilitate the Liturgy of the Word with children in a prayerful way, allowing each child to deepen and explore his or her relationship with God.

 

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Contents

Season Background for Ordinary Time during Fall
1
Season Background for Advent
57
Season Background for Christmas Time
79
Season Background for Ordinary Time during Winter
101
Season Background for Lent
123
Season Background for Easter Time
149
Season Background for Ordinary Time during Summer
183
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About the author (2025)

Paulette M. Chapman is a ministry consultant and writer from Urbandale, Iowa. She has more than 35 years of experience in ministry at the parish, diocesan, and regional level. Paulette earned her BA in Theology from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, and her MA in Theology from University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Paulette and her husband, Tom, have three adult children. They are members of Holy Trinity Parish in Des Moines.

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