St Pius X College Newsletter

Mission and Identity

  • Lenten Appeal
  • Junior School Bible Liturgy
  • Youth Mass
  • Blessed Carlo Acutis Canonisation Orchestra
  • Taize Night - this Friday
  • Feasting and Fasting

Lenten Appeal - We need your help!

This year we are seeking to raise funds and awareness to support the work of the Edmund Rice Centre Nairobi. If a young person is enrolled at the school, they are freed from circumstances that often result in being chained to a bed in the dark confines of their shelter in the slums to keep them safe while their parents search for work and meals. To assist in further students receiving the opportunity to enrol at the school and benefit from its services, the College is seeking to raise $40,000. Such funds would create four new classrooms for additional students to enrol.

 

This equates to $5 per student each week during Lent or $30 per student.

 

Please access the website below to donate and to learn about the wonderful work of the Edmund Rice Centre Nairobi:

https://www.spxedmundriceappeal.com.au/ 

 

Donate direct:

https://www.trybooking.com/au/donate/edmundricenairobi 

 

Junior School Bible Liturgy 

On Tuesday we gathered for the St Pius X College Junior School Bible Liturgy where Year 5 were gifted the Word of God by their ‘big brothers’ from Senior School. The following captures the spirit of our celebration: “We gather today to gift to you the Word of God. It is the living Word of God, in which God will speak to you through every page and every Word. All you need to do is to be still, open and willing to let the Spirit connect with you through what is written.

For Edmund Rice, his Bible was rarely out of his hands. He prayed the scriptures. He read them. He meditated on them. He acted on them - they literally shaped his vision that led to a global network of schools seeking to transform the head, hearts and hands of students.

As you become custodians of the Word of God today, you will join your spiritual ancestors of Abraham and Sarah, Moses and David, Mary and Joseph, and Peter and Paul. May this sacred time together be inscribed on your hearts for many years to come.

Youth Mass 

Last Sunday we celebrated the second St Pius X and Mercy Youth Mass for 2025. It was an uplifting experience to witness our young people to gather in faith and friendship. There was much laughter and joy as students from both colleges gathered for a pizza dinner afterwards.

 

 

 

 

 

Blessed Carlo Acutis Canonisation Youth Orchestra

To assist in the celebrating the canonisation of the first millennial saint, Our Lady of Dolours in collaboration with St Pius X College and Mercy Catholic College have formed a youth orchestra to mark this auspicious occasion. We have been blessed with over 30 volunteers. The dates for the rehearsals are below. These will take place in the Flexi Learning Space at Mercy:

  • Friday 28 March 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm

  • Friday 4 April 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm

  • Friday 11 April 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

  • Wednesday 16 April: 9:00 am - 11:00 am

  • Wednesday 23 April: 9:00 am - 11:00 am

  • Sunday 27 April: final 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm rehearsal with choir at Harrington Hall; 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Mass.

Taize Night - This Friday, 28 March 

This Friday, there will be a Taize night held at Mercy Catholic College in their chapel for anyone who wishes to attend. Our students relished the opportunity last year to attend and are looking forward to this opportunity. Parents are most welcome. The evening commences in their chapel at 6:00 pm.

 

Feasting and Fasting

As we mark halfway through Lent this week, may the reflection below bring cause for contemplation on the interplay of feasting and fasting during this holy season:

 

Feast on unity. Fast from differences.

Feast on compassion. Fast from judgement of others.

Feast on listening. Fast from idle chatter.

Feast on goodness. Fast from perfectionism.

Feast on trust. Fast from anxiety.

Feast on pardons. Fast from grudges.

Feast on affirmation. Fast from gossip.

Feast on nature’s beauty. Fast from pollution.

Feast on quiet moments. Fast from frenzied activity.

Feast on gratitude.  Fast from discontent.

Feast on involvement. Fast from complacency.

Feast on the positive. Fast from negativity.

Feast on a good book. Fast from television.

Feast on humility. Fast from boasting.

Feast on forgiveness. Fast from resentment.

Feast on hope. Fast from despair.

Feast on our gifts and talents. Fast from jealousy.

Feast on love. Fast from fear.

Feast on acceptance. Fast from complaining.

Feast on gentleness. Fast from harshness.

Feast on God’s providence. Fast from fear of the future.

 

Adapted from a prayer by William Arthur Ward, 1921- 1994

Mr Daniel Petrie - Assistant Principal, Mission and Identity