The girl did the Gospel reading at assembly on Monday. It has taken me a few days to get it up. She spoke in front of a total of 600 students, teachers and parents. As she is in the choir, she also gets on the podium every couple of weeks to lead the morning's patriotic song. I know I wouldn't have been able to do that at 7, or even now.

This was her Gospel reading.

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke. Jesus said "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine all over the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon." When they hear this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.

The Gospel of the Lord