Religious Education News 

Please continue to pray for our First Eucharist Students

Pray a Novena for First Eucharist Candidates

At the following link I have shared a Novena which you might like to pray for our First Eucharist Candidates - a Novena is a special kind of prayer! Novenas are usually Nine Days long (although some can go a really long time - even a whole year!) 

Pray More Novenas - Novena for First Communion

Key Liturgical Dates Term 2

At St Mary’s we have some important liturgical dates coming up - please note these down for your calendar in Term 2:

Friday 16th June - Due to a clergy conference please note this is postponed; however, please join us at Assembly this week as we launch our Social Justice endeavour for the next month - We hope to fundraise for the St Vincent De Paul Winter appeal - our Faith and Social Justice leaders have been working very well together to plan out a fun way to help those in need this Winter!

For information about the St Vincent De Paul Winter Appeal please go to:

https://donate.vinnies.org.au/winter-warmth

Thursday 22nd June  - Sacrament of First Eucharist (Year 4) 6:00pm

Please also keep this date in mind for Term 3

Sunday 16 July - Middle School Mass 5:30pm

Friday 21 July  - Whole school Mass for Grandparents and Special Friends day

As the primary sharers of faith in your family we strongly encourage you to come along and support the students and community in prayer at these services.

Ordinary Time - It’s Far from Ordinary

‘Christmas Time and Easter Time highlight the central mysteries of the Paschal Mystery, namely, the incarnation, death on the cross, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The Sundays and weeks of Ordinary Time, on the other hand, take us through the life of Christ. This is the time of conversion. This is living the life of Christ.

Ordinary Time is a time for growth and maturation, a time in which the mystery of Christ is called to penetrate ever more deeply into history until all things are finally caught up in Christ. The goal, toward which all of history is directed, is represented by the final Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.’ - USCCB

Corpus Christi this Sunday

For those students attending their First Eucharist upcoming you might especially be interested to know that this Sunday’s readings will be used at our upcoming First Eucharist Mass! This is because this Sunday is the Feast of Corpus Christi/The Body and Blood of Christ - YOUCAT is a Catholic Catechism for youth - they have written a piece about this special Feast - read about Corpus Christi HERE

© Photo by Dulce María on Cathopic.

Pray for new Syro Malabar Bishop John Panamthottathil 

There are many different ways to worship in the Catholic Tradition - Roman Catholicism is just one of the many! On the weekend a new bishop was installed in the Syro-Malabar Rite of the Catholic Church.

The Syro-Malabar Rite of the Catholic Church is an Eastern Rite of Catholicism most well known in India. We, in Melbourne have a few of these Churches and Bishop Panamthottathil is our newest bishop in this tradition.

You can read more about him here.

Prayer - The Divine Praises

Blessed be God.

Blessed be his holy name.

Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man.

Blessed be the name of Jesus.

Blessed be his most Sacred Heart.

Blessed be his most Precious Blood.

Blessed be Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.

Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.

Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.

Blessed be her glorious Assumption.

Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.

Blessed be Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse.

Blessed be God in his angels and in his saints.