Book Translated and Produced By Archangel Michael and St Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Church ...

32 Pages·2010·3.09 MB·English

Book Translated and Produced By Archangel Michael and St Bishoy Coptic
Orthodox Church, Sydney Australia
With the Blessings of His Grace Bishop Daniel, Bishop of the
Diocese of Sydney and Afiliated Regions.
For more information
please contact Tasony Sara,
St Marks Festival Cup
[email protected]
Application
Book
Year 1
and
Year 2
APPLICATION FORM
Name
Church
Diocese
Phone
Servant Name
ACTIVITY FORM
Name
Church
Diocese
Phone
Servant Name
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The Central Committee
Introduction
We thank God for the eagerness of our children in joining us
in the St Mark Festival Cup. This is due to God’s grace and
the encouragement and support from H.H. Pope Shenouda
the third, who especially rejoices with children’s services, in
that it is the church of the future, “The church of the day after
tomorrow”. Also on the keen supervision from fellow bishops,
each within his diocese and the blessed church fathers and
servants in all their services.
The competition this year educates our children in spiritual,
ecclesiastical and familial faithfulness, faithfulness in investing
their gifts and success in relationships. This is evident in the
children’s and the servant’s books utilising suitable stories,
inventive teaching methods and practical applications.
Through the supervision of His Grace Bishop Tawadrous and
the committees preparing for this stage. May the Lord bless
the works in his church with the prayers of our beloved father,
Pope Shenouda the third.
God’s grace be with us all.
Anba Moussa
General Bishop
Children’s Vision
The Children’s Committee of the Festival Cup in the youth bish-
opric presented its latest services in the competition, the ‘Chil-
dren’s Vision’. Through presentation of artistic events at the 2009
Festival Cup for different childhood stages by staging puppet
shows illustrating five stories for each stage.
1. A story of love - on God’s love to us through the annunciation,
nativity, salvation and resurrection.
2. A story of prayer - Our Father, Holy, Holy, Holy, Introduction to
The Creed and The Creed.
3. A story of invention - T.V., Computer, Internet, Mobile phone.
4. A story of service - The services of the sick, the widows, the
orphans and the elderly.
5. A story of success - Nehemiah, Archdeacon Habib Girgis,
Ibrahim El-Gouhary and St Shora the child.
This event was attended by almost 20,000 children from Cairo
and Giza, over several performances, approximately 1000 child
attended every session three times a day over six days. Also in
the hall at the St Rewis Cathedral, three daily sessions in the
form of various stage productions such as puppet shows, black
stage presentations, plays and screening television productions
were presented in a way that made the children overjoyed as
they had participated in all the performances with the servants.
This service was fulfilled by many groups of servants from vary-
ing places in Egypt.
We ask for your prayers that the Lord may help us in repeat-
ing this vision once more with stories for every childhood stage
through more amazing stage productions.
A Word For The First Form
of Faithfulness
Your Ear
1. It is not just necessary to explain what “Faithfulness” is as such, but to memorise and under-
stand it gradually through repetition from the stories so as to grasp its meaning.
2. The word ‘Molly’ is taken from the word moly, which means ‘candle’ in the Coptic language.
3. It is possible to explain to the children what a lantern is. It is a means of providing light at
night, which was used at the time of our grandfathers. It resembles the oil lanterns used in
church today, full of oil and placed in front of icons of saints.
Faithfulness of My Heart
1. The aim of this chapter is to have them pray on their own. We try and train the child to con-
tinually pray for the sake of others in different places and situations that the child might be in,
for instance:
• The House – For my brothers and sisters, father, mother and all members of my family
• Church: Pope, bishop, the priest of my church, the servants of my church, my friends and
colleagues in church
• My School: The teachers, students and cleaner
• Outside: My neighbours and garbage man.
2. Beware not to promote to the child that what they pray for will happen. Rather concentrate
on their prayer being from their hearts in all faithfulness. Therefore, God will certainly listen to
his/her prayers and that is more important. Also stress on the necessity to continue praying
and pleading to God.
3. The story of St Peter and the prayer of the congregation for his sake (Acts 1:12-17).
- Also mention the first church (The Upper Room)
- Herod Agripas, try to point out that he is a different Herod from the one we know in the
days of our Lord Jesus.
- James – brother of John son of Zebedee, who was the first disciple to be martyred.
- Guarded with four rows of four guards – illustrate to the child how fearful King Herod was
of St Peter. This shows the importance of St Peter and the worry of King Herod.
- Explain how St Peter after being thrown in jail, went into a deep sleep and didn’t awake
until an angel poked his side (shows the inner peace and complete confidence in God, of
the great St Peter).
The term diligently needs to be explained and
illustrated to the child, as in it is continuous
fervent prayer that comes from the heart.
4. Activity in Childrens Book: Organise a weekly
program for the school holidays whereby you and
the children you serve, pray everyday each week
for a certain character from the stickers in their
Festival Cup book. The child writes the date and
marks if he/she has prayed for that character.
The child with the most marks is given a prize.
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Prayer From Practical Application: Prepare
four candles of varying lengths
A Young Age
and light them in front of
1 the children.
Each candle defines a group of people. The first (longest) candle resembles the person
who has been praying to the Lord Jesus since their childhood. So he has had plenty of
time enjoying living with the Lord Jesus. The last (shortest) candle resembles someone of
old age who remembered to pray to God at the end of their life, when they haven’t had as
much time to enjoy life with the Lord as a child would ultimately enjoy it. And so on with
the other candles.
Image of candles with different lengths
Youth
Child Elder
Mature
Pope Shenouda requests from us as servants:
“I want from every servant to ask him/herself three things”-
FOR
THE 1. The spirituality of his/her children in the service.
SERVANTS 2. The spirituality of his/her own life.
3. The spirituality of his/her service.
2
The Most
Activity: Enlarge and print these images and
hand out to children so they can join in acting
Gifted Artist
out the story of St Peter and the congregation
who prayed for him.
2
One of the
Peter
Disciples
Uncle Sirago
Rhoda
The
Angel
The children in this stage want to know the reason behind the strength of the disciples
and their authority in performing miracles. Help them to understand that the source of the
power and the authority is the Lord Jesus Christ. “And when He had called
His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits,
FOR to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of
SERTVHAEN TS Tdhiese cahsield. r e Mn awtitlhl aepwp 1re0c:1ia”t.e the meaning of the miracle and it’s mean-
ing as proof of God’s glory and strength, and that the source of all good
things in us is the Lord Jesus.
3
Assemble this cube and encourage the child
The Cube
to put it together. This would allow him/her
of Stories to hang it near them so as to remind them
of the story of St Peter and the
congregation praying for him.
3
Memory Verses:
“but constant
……………………………
………………………..”
Children of this stage enjoy learning from the Holy Bible, so do not add or
delete any information from the script of the Bible...
FOR
THE
SERVANTS
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