Object: A clock - one on which you can move the hands.

Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to talk a little bit about time and how we use it. How many of you know what time it is right now? (Let them answer.) That's pretty close. Time is very important. We must know time so that we can be at church at 10:30 in the morning, or at school at 8:00 in the morning, or to a game at 2:30 in the afternoon, or to watch our favorite television show at 7:00 in the evening. We like to get up at a certain time and go to bed at a certain time. We make a time for everything.

Saint Paul talked a lot about time because he knew that people were interested in it. When he wrote a letter to the people in Rome, he told them to be ready for the time when God was coming back to start his new world. …