The other children were very excited to welcome the new child (it was our 6:45 session), and during the class, got busy preparing for that evening's closing prayer.
As it turned out, they had spent their time making letters out of paper and cutting them out and tying them together so that they spelled a word. When they rang the bell for prayer (which signals to the class that it is time to put away work and come to the prayer table), they hung the word over the front of the Good Shepherd tapestry hanging above the prayer table.
"WELCOME."
We are constantly humbled by the children's spontaneous joyfulness in living the gospel.
Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’
Then the righteous will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’
And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’
Matthew 25:34-40
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