Religious Education

Confirmation - Year 6 

Next Term, our Year 6 students will complete the Sacrament of Confirmation. Confirmation is an important step in a Catholic child’s faith journey, the third and final Sacrament of Initiation into the Catholic Church. This year, Bishop Anthony Ireland will be celebrating Confirmation with our St Finbar's candidates. Bishop Ireland will be ordained in late July, making the St Finbar's Confirmation one of his first official duties as Bishop. 

For our Year 6 families, please refer to the email sent on Wednesday 23rd June with all the information about the process for Confirmation, including booking for ceremonies.

As a school community, we look forward to supporting our Year 6 students and members of our Parish through this very important time.

St Vincent de Paul - Winter Appeal

The St Vincent de Paul Winter Appeal comes to a close this week. At Friday's assembly, we will be joined by Mila Little from St Vincent de Paul to officially hand over our collected items. I would like to acknowledge the incredible work of our school community. This year has been our largest collection to date. Thank you. To Jonah & Elijah, our Year 6 Social Justice Leaders, thank you for your dedication and organisation. Look at all of these items! 

Gospel - Sunday 27 June

Gospel Reading

Mark 5:21-43 ( shorter form, Mark 5:21-24,35b-43)

Jesus heals a woman afflicted with a hemorrhage and raises Jairus’s daughter from death.

Family Connection

There are many ways in which we can compare the request for healing made by Jairus and the request of the woman with the hemorrhage. One comparison helps us think about prayer. Jairus asked Jesus for healing on his daughter’s behalf; the woman with the hemorrhage had no one to speak for her and bravely approached Jesus on her own initiative. In our prayers, we do both. We intercede for others’ needs, and we also courageously express our own needs to God. We find hope in Jesus’ response to both of these people, who sought him out in their hour of need. As you gather as a family, talk about some of the things you have prayed for this week. Notice that some of your prayers may have been for other people, and some of your prayers may have been for your own needs. In today’s Gospel, we find encouragement for both kinds of prayer. Read together today’s Gospel, Mark 5:21-43. Talk about the similarities and differences between the two people who presented their needs to Jesus in this Gospel. Notice that both people received the healing they sought from Jesus. We want to pray for the needs of others and for our own needs with as much faith and hope as Jairus and the woman with the hemorrhage did. Pray together in thanks and praise to God, who hears our needs and answers them, by praying today’s psalm, Psalm 30.

Steele Anderson

Religious Education Leader