Religious Education
Confirmation
Our Confirmation evenings were wonderful celebrations for our Year 6 students and our friends from various state schools. Bishop Brian certainly speaks from the heart when acknowledging the gifts of the Holy Spirit these students will now endeavour to live out. Congratulations to all involved in the preparation of these children and we continue to keep them in our prayers as they live out their faith.
We have now entered the season of the church year called ‘Ordinary Time’ which makes up most of the liturgical year in the Catholic Church (approximately 33-34 Sundays). However Ordinary Time is far from unimportant or uninteresting. It is called this because the weeks are numbered (or ordered!) It is the period in which we live our lives neither in feasting (as in the Christmas and Easter seasons) or in more severe penance (as in Advent and Lent), but in watchfulness and expectation of the Second Coming of Christ. Green vestments and altar cloths are now used as they have traditionally been associated with this time after Pentecost.
Family & Parish Community Mass
Our next celebration will occur on Sunday 3rd July at 9.30am. As this is in the holidays, we would like to have readers and a family for the offertory organised. Please contact the school if you can take on one of these roles for mass, or Peter Riordan on 0403315035. Thank you for your continued support.
Migrant & Refugee Week
Refugee Week is an annual celebration, informing the public about refugees and celebrating their contributions. The 2022 theme is Healing and aims to highlight aspects of the refugee experience and help the broader community to understand what it is like to be a refugee. If you would like further information visit the websites
https://www.refugeeweek.org.au/
https://www.refugeeweek.org.au/refugee-week-theme-2022/
There is also a prayer service you may like to be involved in at this link
https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/2022/05/23/refugee-week-prayer-service/
Solemnities of St John the Baptist and Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Aside from the Lord and His Blessed Mother, John is the only other individual whose birth the Church commemorates with a solemnity. He spent his adult life preparing the way for Jesus and proclaiming that “the Kingdom of Heaven is close at hand.” We commemorate this solemnity on Friday 24th June.
In 1856, the Feast of the Sacred Heart became a universal feast.
St. John Paul II, a great devotee of the Sacred Heart, said, “This feast reminds us of the mystery of the love of God for the people of all times.”
In 2022, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 24.
NAIDOC Week
From July 3-10 our nation celebrates NAIDOC Week. The theme for 2022 is “Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!” The relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non‑Indigenous Australians continues to be based on justice, equity, and the proper recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights. We look forward to acknowledging and celebrating this event in Term 3.
