The Holy Family
Monday, 15 December 2008 by Jacob Tomaw
This Sunday we portrayed the Holy Family in the children’s Christmas pageant.
Friday night when Gabriel (aka Rev Magrini) called me, I was as surprised as Joseph. Mostly surprised that Jonah we would be a walking-almost-talking baby Jesus.
The play went well. The children were cute and sang like bashful angels, what more could you expect.
Jonah had no interest in pretending to be an infant again. Perhaps the fully God infant Jesus could walk, right?
During the part of the play when the Three Kings visited Jonah he sat on the floor staring while they sang to him. This seemed very realistic. Jonah is closer to the age Jesus would have been when they visited and I can imagine Jesus taking the same respectful stance when receiving these mystics from afar.
There were many children involved in the play. Teenagers read scripture and poems. The younger kids where angels and shepards. The youngest were sheep.
An interesting demographic quirk meant that there where 2 sheep, but 10 shepherds. Jonah has many peers though. I am sure next year there will be a large flock to be watched.
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December 16th, 2008 at 6:42
Does this give new meaning to “little holy terror”? You three look good as Mary, Joseph & Jesus.
December 16th, 2008 at 19:26
Oh my, there’s no stopping your family. What now, on to Moses? or
Noah? It must have been hard to keep your composure when Jonah was
watching the wise men sing?