Mission News

Mr Luke McMahon

Student Free Day / Staff Spirituality Day

Next Monday 28 February is a student free day. Students are encouraged to work from home on assignments and study. On this day, the staff of the College will undertake a series of workshops delivered by Fr Richard Leonard SJ on the importance of and the practical witness of Catholic Education.

Year 12 Investiture of Student Leaders Liturgy

As per the information sent to parents by the Head of College on Friday 4 February the College Inaugural Mass has been revised and will now be a Liturgy with Investiture of Student leaders.

Date: Thursday 10 Mach 2022

Time: 10:30am

Location: Champagnat Centre

RSVP: If you are able to join us, please RSVP by following this link.

https://events.humanitix.com/inaugural-mass-b0u0hxyd

This link will be closed from Monday 7 March

COVID-19 Safety

All attendees at the Liturgy with Investiture must abide by the following rules:

Wear a mask
Check-in using the Queensland check-in App
Show evidence of double vaccination upon entry
Socially distance at all times
Follow all Queensland Health regulations

Live Stream

For parents and guardians not able to attend, the Liturgy with Investiture of Student Leaders will be live-streamed. To access, please follow this link: https://youtu.be/rZWq-mGgFpw We hope that the new arrangements enable everyone to remain safe and the boys the opportunity to be acknowledged appropriately as the student leaders for 2022.

From the Head of Religious Education - Dr Danielle Lynch

A month into the first term of 2022, RE lessons are providing students opportunities to ask challenging questions and to think critically about beliefs and faith stances. As we progress through the year, teachers from the RE department will give an insight into the curriculum at each year level.

Dr Colleen Robertson has written about the SOR programme for seniors.

SOR at Marist

When I got the opportunity to relocate to Australia from the other side of the world to become an RE teacher at Marist College Ashgrove, I was initially a little daunted. Would everything be unfamiliar? Would my experience and values chime with such a different school? Well, three weeks into a term that has been admittedly unusual for all of our school community, I can honestly say that this has been a great move.

The best thing about teaching RE at our school is the way that the subject is valued and respected by boys and colleagues. It is humbling that our Marist theme for the year ‘known and loved’ is not simply rhetoric; I hear this value expounded in our shared liturgies, in the assemblies for the students and within our curriculum planning. I see this ethos lived out in the way the pastoral teachers and the Senior Leaders treat the boys and the staff. ‘Dignity for all’ is part of our everyday shared experience at Marist College.

Study of Religion is a unique sort of course. It offers Senior boys the chance to engage with complex issues that genuinely affect the decisions they will make in life. This term in Year 11 we have been considering the influence of sacred texts in the lives of the ‘People of the Book’- those of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions. Boys have been able to grapple with important issues such as the representation of Eve and how these interpretations have influenced the way we see women right up to today. They have been invited to consider the place of the Creation story across different traditions, denominations and systems of thinking. This course is suitably demanding for our most enquiring students and I have particularly enjoyed working with the boys in this challenging arena of knowledge.

RE at Marist is proving a thriving, demanding environment for me as much as for our Year 11 boys, but in a place with such goodwill, co-operation and endeavour across the staff and student body (and with Queensland’s envious sunshine as a bonus) I cannot think of a better place to be.

Shrove Tuesday

The College St Vincent de Paul group will sell pancakes on Shrove Tuesday 1 March in observation of the day and to kick start our Lenten appeal.

$3:00 for a stack of two pancakes.

College Community Mass

We are fortunate and blessed to have a College Chaplain that celebrates Eucharist for this community every Wednesday morning in the College Chapel of Our Lady and St Marcellin at 8:00am prior to the beginning of the school day. The link for Mass tomorrow 23 February is: https://youtu.be/-4PzmFIE2CU

Prayers

May our loving God, with Mary and Champagnat, walk with all members of the Marist family. Amen

We pray for the repose of the soul of Br Francis Attah a Marist Brother who for many years hosted our Marist family in an international Marist Community in Palin in Cambodia. Br Francis was a wonderful example of making Jesus known and loved. Br Francis spoke at our 2015 Champagnat mass reminding us all of the importance of knowing, accepting and loving ourselves and those we encounter. Rest in Peace Br Francis.