Liturgy

Next week, Community Mass will be prepared by the newly elected Homeroom leaders for 2021. Everyone is welcome to this liturgy where we will pray God’s blessing on these young people taking up leadership positions in their Homerooms. Families are also welcome to stay for coffee in the Circle of Friends Café afterwards. 

For any queries please contact Mary-Anne Lumley: mary-anne.lumley@cewa.edu.au

Community Mass Summary

• Every Friday in term time
• 8:00am – 8:30am
• College Chapel
• All students, families, friends, alumni and staff are welcome.

SACRAMENT PROGRAM

Congratulations 

Congratulations students and their families who have recently celebrated sacraments in their parishes

Olivia Negus who celebrated the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time in the parish of Holy Rosary, Nedlands

Amelie Connell who made her First Holy Communion in the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Doubleview.

Let us hold in our prayer students celebrating sacraments this weekend in St Joseph’s Parish, Subiaco.

Sacraments 2021

Parishes are now planning for celebrations of the sacraments in 2021. Parents are encouraged to enrol their child in their ‘home’ parish once enrolments open. 

Cottesloe/Mosman Park 

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

Subiaco

Enrolment information will be available soon.

Enrolment information from other parishes will be updated as it becomes available. 

If you would like further information about the Sacrament Program

• See our updates provided by some of our ‘local’ parishes;
• If your nearest parish is not listed, search the Archdiocesan website;
• Check the information available on the College website
• Contact Mary-Anne Lumley mary-anne.lumley@cew.edu.au  08 9383 0408

GOOD NEWS for 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Parable of the rich man, his servants and the talents

(Matthew 25:14-30)

There is a certain type of religious person for whom time is the enemy. Time is full of anxiety over what one has done which might make God angry. The solution seems to be to bury one’s personality traits, what one might call one’s talents, which is really to bury oneself and to become invisible.

What such people don’t realise is that God gives us the dimension of earthly time as a gift. Why were you born, not in the 11th century in China, or the 19th century in Ireland, or even 1971 rather than 1973? Why were you brought into existence as a human being, an inhabitant of this small planet, at this particular time and no other?

You were not just born into existence, you were loved into existence to fulfil a destiny which is yours, and yours alone, in the whole history of the world. Each of us has a unique, irreplaceable role to play in the unfolding of salvation history, to be achieved now, in this time.

God’s plan for human happiness during that time is mostly frustrated by good people not doing things with the gifts of personality and opportunity which God will provide to fulfil his plan. In the old [days it was called a sin of omission, the failure to do something], which may well have the most disruptive effect on the divine plan for human history…

[The parable in Sunday’s Gospel] tells of us of another way in which God’s plan is frustrated: failure of courage, failure to take risks, failure to put everything on the line with the personality and the moment in time given to you and to me. Perhaps it is a false humility. ‘I am only a one-talented person. Surely I can’t be expected to do anything?’ But our Lord does expect us to do something with whatever talent has been given us, and in a timely way.

This moment in time will not recur. Stop daydreaming, befriend time. Follow through whilst you have the time.

As Shakespeare says in Julius Caesar:

‘There is a tide in the affairs of men

which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

omitted, all the voyage of their life

is bound in stillness and in miseries.’

The Divine Tide is flowing through human history. We should trust ourselves to that tide which can carry us to the shores of Heaven. We have a choice. Procrastination and anxiety lead to ‘stillness and miseries’. Whereas the taking of a risk, the courageous using of one’s talents, will lead to the good fortune of hearing the Lord say as we die: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant … come and join in your Master’s happiness.’