Religious Education 

Andrew Chinn Concert - Wednesday 17th May

On Wednesday 17th May, Australian religious songwriter and singer, Andrew Chinn, will be visiting our school to share his songs with our children. Together with Andrew, each class will attend a workshop to learn songs to perform to the whole school community in a concert at the end of the day. Andrew’s songs, such as “These Hands”, “Rainbow”, “An African Blessing” and “Rise Up!” are used in classrooms and liturgies around Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada. 

The concert will take place in our St Kilian’s Hall, at 2.30pm on the day.

We look forward to seeing parents, grandparents, siblings and friends at our concert, so please come along !

Carolyn Maher

Catholic Identity Leader

GOSPEL      John 14:15-21

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

I shall ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate.

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘If you love me you will keep my commandments.

I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate

to be with you for ever, that Spirit of truth

whom the world can never receive since it neither sees nor knows him;

but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you.

I will not leave you orphans; I will come back to you.

In a short time the world will no longer see me; but you will see me,

because I live and you will live. On that day you will understand that I am in my Father

and you in me and I in you.

Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them

will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father,

and I shall love him and show myself to him.’

 A beginning point for discussion of this week's Gospel with children:

Who are the people who love you?

What do they ask of you in return for their love?

Jesus loves us and asks us to keep his commandments.

What are some of his commandments?

Jesus says the Holy Spirit will help us.

Let us pray for the Holy Spirit to help us love others.