(St. Hilary's has a
lesson plan for Palm Sunday written for us by Miss Lorna Webb which is
free for non-commercial use only.)
The children are excited on this Palm Sunday morning because they are expecting to take part in the annual Palm Sunday procession in church.
Jesus rode on a donkey as he entered Jerusalem for the last time before he was crucified. People welcomed Him by throwing palms down in His path.
The children normally love to wave palm leaves as they re-enact this event by processing with them but this year there is a VERY big health and safety problem which makes this impossible......find out all about it below............
| Adele has arrived early Palm Sunday morning as she is helping the vicar and Esther set up the new display unit with St. Hilary's Easter cards. |  |
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Doesn't the new display unit look brilliant?!
Adele has now filled it with Easter cards and other things too. Can you see what else is for sale here? St. Hilary's has also produced some monthly and wall calendars for 2009. The Easter cards and calendars have been made especially in order to raise money for the church funds. The money is now urgently needed...............find out why........ |
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Oh dear! WHAT has happened here?
Poor Homer has had to put his hat on IN church. He normally NEVER wears his hat in church and prefers to use it to collect loose change in order to help him live as he has no home of his own. However.........if he doesn't have his hat on he will get wet because the roof has started to leak and is dripping on to his head! It would seem that April showers have arrived! |
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Ambrose has already found out that the
roof is leaking in some places. He is checking to see where the roof is
leaking so he can put the buckets in the right places!
He has even been very good and made a poster to warn people when they come into church to avoid standing near a bucket as it is catching rain water drips from the leaking roof! Even old Ernie, the churchyard gardener, has let the church borrow his old rusty bucket to catch the drips! Sepp, the rat, is investigating and Nunc Dimittis, the church mouse, is not far behind..... |
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Priscilla Jane is SO good! She has joined Ambrose and is helping him to mop up the puddles on the church floor before all the congregation and children arrive for the Palm Sunday service. |
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Ben has made some of the palm
crosses this year after he offered to make them. He still remembers
how to make them as Esther, their Sunday School teacher, has already
taught them. He can't resist showing them off to Poppy can he? He is
such a show off! Poppy doesn't look THAT impressed does she?
Can you see two other visitors to church this morning? It is Esme and Ernest, the local mallard ducks! They have heard all about the leaking roof and have decided to come and see if they can enjoy a paddle in any of the puddles on the church floor. However.....they are now very disappointed because it has stopped raining outside and Ambrose has already mopped them ALL up with the help of Priscilla Jane. |
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The vicar is now ready to take the service. However he is feeling a bit upset and sad and tells the children that he feels very guilty because he has let them down. He tells them that he should have realised how bad the roof was BEFORE it started to leak and he didn't. Ben is the first to speak up as he immediately feels sorry for the vicar. He reminds the vicar how often, in his sermons, he has told them that God loves them and that Jesus lived and died to save them all from their sins. So the vicar must remember that God has already forgiven him for not checking the roof as often as he should!
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The vicar has asked all the children to move into the chancel as the
roof is more secure and, if it rains, they won't get wet!
He has just blessed all the palm crosses that Ben has made and brought to church. He is now giving them to the children as they queue up. |
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The children each receive a palm cross
from the vicar.
The vicar explains to the children that the palm cross will remind them that Jesus died for them and everything that they have done wrong or ever will do wrong! |
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*Palm crosses have been made out of two real old palm crosses that have sat on our mantle piece for years:) Some PVA glue from The Early Learning Centre and a pair of scissors were all that was required to complete the project:-)
Full size versions of these Easter cards and the 2009 monthly and wall calendars are currently available for download on our downloads page.
Many thanks to Dave Tayler for the new display unit - made to order especially for St. Hils!
The water drips are thankfully not real and St. Hils is never in any danger of being flooded really ................they are just a little bit of digital trickery!
Updated: 05 March 2010
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Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
This site is dedicated to Hilary Doreen Davies who departed this life 26 November 2003 aged 71 after 23 years of chronic illness with strokes, cancer and arthritis. St Hilary's Church is our tribute to a brave lady who was mother to Sarah, Catherine, the late Rachel, the late John and wife to the late Owen Williams Davies.