OUR FAITH
PRAYER
Marriage and Family Week Prayer
Loving God,
We thank you for the joy we receive through our loved-ones, especially the children in our lives.
Help us to reflect this great love back to them through our words and actions as their beautiful smiles reveal your face to us.
Help us to be good role models for our precious little ones as we seek to raise them to love and worship you.
Amen
We pray ...
We pray for... all students preparing for the Sacrament of Confirmation, for all our families, for all who are recovering from illness and for those who have recently lost loved ones.
LITURGY NEWS
Yesterday some of the Year 4 students attended Reconciliation with Fr Chris. We thank Fr Chris for his ongoing spiritual guidance.
FAMILY MASS
Family Mass scheduled for our Kindergarten and Year 6 families this coming Sunday at 9:30am, will still be going ahead, however there will be no morning tea at the conclusion of Mass. Families who intend on being at this Mass are strongly encouraged to phone the St Nicholas Presbytery on 67662228 to enable numbers to be monitored.
A gentle reminder also, enrolment masses at 9:30am and 5:30pm on Sunday August 1 for Confirmation candidates, surnames P-Z are still scheduled.
CONFIRMATION - (Year 6)
The dates for Confirmation are Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th September. Parents who did not attend one of the information sessions at the Church now need to contact the Parish office on 6766 2228 to obtain the Confirmation pack in order to proceed with the sacrament.
Compass Pay has now been set up to receive payment for the Sacrament of Confirmation.
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY WEEK
Bishop Michael Kennedy has designated this week as Marriage and Family Week for the Armidale Diocese. The week includes the celebration of the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne on Monday 26th July. The theme for Marriage and Family Week is 'The Family: I am with you always'
The quotation used as the theme for 2021’s Marriage and Family Week, “I am with you always”, is found in Jesus’ “Great Commission” to his apostles and to all his followers, including us. We find it at the very end of Matthew’s gospel; “All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28;18-20)
Having commanded us to act, Jesus reassures us that we are not alone and that we will never be alone. Jesus doesn’t present us with a clear plan of how we are to lead people to wish to be disciples. Recent decades have seen the Church’s understanding of mission change. The Church knows that one of the most important things it can do is to accompany people in the realities of their everyday lives (Marriage and Family Booklet 2021 - CSO Armidale).
COLOUR HOUSE MUFTI DAYS - Week 4
The feast of St Dominic will be celebrated on Tuesday 3rd August. Dominic colour house members are able to come to school dressed in yellow mufti clothes.
As the feast of St Mary of the Cross Mackillop falls on a Sunday, Mackillop colour house members are able to come to school dressed in red mufti clothes on Friday 6th August.