Catholic Identity

Sacraments

Next term, we will be beginning our Sacramental preparation for Confirmation and Eucharist. The date for the Sacraments will be Saturday June 20 at St Joseph's Church at 6pm.

An enrolment and Information session will be held on Monday May 4 in the Arts Centre at 5pm. Please note, the children will not need to attend the Information session. There will be more information to come in at the start of Term 2.

Caritas

Thank you to our wonderful school community for your generous donations towards the Caritas Project Compassion appeal.

Thanks to your support, the money raised will go towards helping and supporting vulnerable communities around the world.

Your kindness and commitment to making a difference truly reflect the values of compassion and generosity that we strive to uphold. Every contribution, big or small, will help provide essential resources such as education, clean water, and sustainable livelihoods for those in need.

Our water droplets created a lovely display of mission in our school which shows how small actions can create BIG changes this Lent.

Big Water Walk

GOSPEL

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

The teaching of scripture is that he must rise from the dead.

It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’

So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first; he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter who was following now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

CHILDREN'S DISCUSSION STARTERS

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

What do you have that is new?
How do you feel when you have something new?
Today, Easter Sunday, is exciting because we celebrate Jesus’ rising and living among us.
How can we show that Jesus lives within us in a new way?

Elise Nally, Catholic Identity Leader.