This is a wonderful children's homily
but can be expensive, especially if you purchase jumbo sizes for
visibility purposes.
As you reference each candy item, hold
it up. As you write you own personal script for this, look for ways
to repeat many of the candies so that anarchy ensues as you rifle
through the once ordered pile to find what is next. Well, **I**
think that chaos is fun.
Obviously your presentation requires
the right inflection and pauses for the ultimate in campiness. Not
only is this a wonderful children's homily but, the kids get to eat
the homily after the service. So, in incomplete sentences, you can
wax out the full story for yourself . . .
Angel appears to Mary, you are going to
have a BABY Ruth.
He will be a LIFE SAVER
Joseph was a GOODbar about it.
They had to leave town because as an
unwed pregnant mother, people in town would SNICKERS
The got on a donkey to SKITTLE out of
town
They hit the TRAIL MIX
Exhausted from the trip, they decided
to TAKE FIVE
When they arrived, they went from BAR
to BAR to BAR (three Hershey's), there was no room anywhere.
Finally, at one inn, in a barn, they
found room where Mary gave birth to her SUGAR BABY, our LIFE SAVER.
In the barn there were sheep, cows and
maybe even a KIT KAT or a DOVE
Shepherds also TOOK FIVE and hit the
TRAIL MIX
Mary and Joseph smothered Jesus with
KISSES
(here, you can say "It get's
worse.")
Herod was up to his old TWIX and sent
three SMARTIES to find a babe in a stable.
They too hit the TRAIL MIX
These wise men astrologers were not DUM
DUMs nor were they NERDS
They looked up into the MILKY WAY,
assessing all the DOTS in the sky to find a specific STARBURST
Everyone thought they were MIXED NUTS
to go on such a perilous journey to find a treasure (drops fistful of
gold foil wrapped chocolate coins) in a stable.
When they found him, the gave him gifts
of Gold (drops chocolate coins again), Frankincense and
WHATCHAMACALLIT
They returned from their SNOW CAP'd
journey to Herod and not wishing to reveal the location of Jesus,
told him a WHOPPER.
Jesus, our LIFE SAVER is the RAISIN for
the season.
When this homily was presented at my
church, I don't think many of our kids got the puns but they oooh'd
and ahhh'd at each delicious and yummy reveal.
