Liturgy

Community Mass

Thank you to the Year 8s who prepared Community Mass this morning, members of the choir and altar ministers. Next week students in Koolyangarra House will prepare the liturgy. Today we also celebrated the fifth anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood of College Chaplain, Fr Rodrigo.

Some families make the decision to attend Mass more frequently as part of their Lenten journey. The Church has given us a rich selection of Scripture to proclaim during the season of Lent.

All are welcome to Community Mass, whether or not you are Catholic or a regular church-goer. Mass finishes at 8:30am, in time for the start of Homeroom. For families able to stay, the fellowship continues in the Circle of Friends Café.

Community Mass summary

College Chapel
Fridays in term time
Starts: 8:00am and concludes 8:30am

SACRAMENT PROGRAM

Do you have a child in Years 3, 4 or 6?

Do you have a child currently in Year 3, 4 or 6? In their Religious Education classes, students will be preparing for the sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist and Confirmation. While the students will learn the appropriate content at school, they celebrate the sacraments with their family in their parishes.

Have you enrolled your child in a parish sacrament program?

Parents are encouraged to enrol their child, as soon as possible, in their parish – usually, but not necessarily, the parish closest to home. Most parishes are beginning their programs at this time, and it is essential to enrol your child in advance.

How to enrol

Contact the parish: the parish secretary, the sacrament coordinator or the parish priest. Parish contact details are available here. The College provides information from some of our local parishes. It is the parents’ right and responsibility to follow up with enrolling their child in the parish.

Please check below for the enrolment dates and procedures for some of our local parishes.

Saint Thomas Apostle, Claremont

First Communion Friday 21 May

Confirmation Friday 27 August

Reconciliation October

Please note that, due to current COVID restrictions on maximum capacity, priority for enrolment will go to families who are in the parish of Saint Thomas Apostle.

Please see link for further details: http://www.johnxxiii.edu.au/view/parent-resources/parish-sacraments

Enrolment forms are available from silvia.kinder@iona.wa.edu.au

St Mary Star of the Sea, Cottesloe/Corpus Christi, Mosman Park

Reconciliation Saturday 27 March

First Holy Communion Sunday 1 August

Information Day: Thursday 29 April, 4-5pm, Parish Centre, 2 McNeil Street, Peppermint Grove.

Confirmation Sunday 7 November

Information Day: 5 August, 4-5pm Parish Centre, 2 McNeil Street, Peppermint Grove.

Enrolment information and contact details for the Sacrament Coordinator may be found here.

Holy Spirit, City Beach

Enrolment information and contact details for the Sacrament Coordinator may be found here.

St Mary’s, Leederville

Enrolment information may be found on the flyer below

leederville_flyer-sacramental-program.pdf

Registration: Goretti – 94449624 smc_secretary@aapt.net.au

If you would like further information about the Sacrament Program:

If your nearest parish is not listed, search the Archdiocesan website;
Check the information available on the College website here
Contact Mary-Anne Lumley mary-anne.lumley@cew.edu.au OR 08 9383 0408

GOOD NEWS for the 3rd Sunday of Lent

“Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:13-25)

The reflection for this Sunday’s Gospel is from Father Michael Tate and is used with permission. Rev. Prof. Michael Tate was a Senator for Tasmania from 1978-93 and Ambassador to The Hague and the Holy See from 1993-96. He is currently Vicar-General in the Archdiocese of Hobart and is an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania where he lectures in International Humanitarian Law.

Where does God really dwell?

The Ten Commandments are badly named. Rather, they are the Ten Responses which should characterise a liberated people, freed from slavery by ‘the Lord, your God’.

By the time Jesus came on the scene, the Temple in Jerusalem was no longer a fit dwelling place for a God who desires to free people from oppression and exploitation. To the contrary, Jesus saw the Temple ideology as placing undue burdens and shackles on people.

His anger at this erupted in dramatic street theatre. His overturning of the tables of the money-changers signalled the overturning of the Temple system.

What Our Lord revealed to uncomprehending authorities was that His body was the true sanctuary. The body of Jesus of Nazareth is the dwelling place of God, the habitation of the Lord God who liberates people. In short, God’s sanctuary is not a place, but a person.

We could take a moment to pray, using the Ten Responses to review and guide our reflection and practice as we move towards Easter. This will help us to celebrate the enigmatic saying: ‘Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it again.’