Liturgy

Community Mass

Next Friday, 26 August, our Community Mass will be prepared by students in Year 10. While Year 10 families are especially welcome, the liturgy is open to all - just come to the Chapel at 8:00am.  There are no special seats and the responses are on a PowerPoint making it a ‘user-friendly’ celebration.

Mass finishes around 8:30am, in time for Homeroom, but for those able to stay a bit longer, there is coffee and conversation in the Circle of Friends Café.

As Fathers’ Day is the first Sunday in September, our Mass on Friday 2 September Mass will be dedicated to fathers and father-figures. 

Please note the earlier start time of 7:30 am and the change of venue to the Saint Louis Sports Centre.

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

SACRAMENT PROGRAM

‘Family-focused, parish-based, Catholic school supported’

Congratulations

Congratulations to these Year 6 students who were recently confirmed in the parish of Saint Cecilia, Floreat, and the parish of Saint Thomas Apostle, Claremont:

Parents of students in Years 3, 4 and 6

To make arrangements for your child to celebrate the sacraments this year, contact the Parish Priest or Sacrament Coordinator in your own home parish at the earliest.

Enrolment details for parishes of City Beach, Doubleview, Subiaco and Cottesloe/Mosman Park, may be found here.  

Cottesloe/Mosman Park Parish advises that the Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated Sunday 6 November. 

Doubleview Parish advises that First Holy Communion will be celebrated on Saturday 17 September and Reconciliation will be celebrated in the last week of October. 

If you would like further information contact:

• If your nearest parish is not listed, search the Archdiocesan website;
• Contact Mary-Anne Lumley mary-anne.lumley@cewa.edu.au  08 9383 0513.

Good News for the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Luke 13:22-30 - From East & West they will come to take their place in the kingdom of God

Reflection by Richard Leonard SJ

Salvation has, rightly, always been a big issue. Who was going to make it, how it was going to happen and when would Christ return in glory have captured the imagination of each generation of believers.

The roots of this thinking can be found in Sunday’s Gospel. The earliest Christians, especially the Gentiles, saw that the Jews had been given every opportunity for salvation. They were the Chosen people. They had the Law and the Prophets. They were looking for the Messiah. Jesus, however, did not come as they expected or act as they hoped, so they rejected him and his followers. Within a generation after Jesus' death the Jews were persecuting the Christians and expelling them from the synagogues. The Christians took comfort from saying that in the salvation race the Jews might have started as the favourites, but they had missed the start and were now coming last.

This way of thinking had a strong effect on the Church. While we have always believed in the mercy and love of God, at different times we have been hostile to other religions, other denominations and the secular world. We have often needed to express this in absolute terms about who was going to be saved and, more importantly, who was not!

The Second Vatican Council, however, reflected on the Church's experience of working side by side with religious people and secular humanists throughout the world who were as committed as we are to justice, love and freedom. In the ‘Declaration on the relationship of the Church to non-Christian religions’, the bishops thought more generously about how God has a relationship with all people who in turn relate to God, even if they do not name it in the same way we are able to. The Council did not resile from believing that Jesus is the way to the Father, but also affirmed that God can work in an infinite number of ways to assist people to salvation. It is Church teaching now that our relationship to all people who share the best of our values must be characterised by acceptance, collaboration, dialogue and charity.

This does not make salvation any less important. It just clarifies for us that it is God, not us, who does the saving and the judging. Christian salvation marks us out as people who know who we are following, where we are going, how we are getting there and why this world, and the next, matters to us. Salvation gives our lives meaning, direction and purpose.

The way we live out this salvation should be irresistible to others. As the folk hymn sings, ‘They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love. Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our love.’

© Richard Leonard

The reflection for this Sunday’s Gospel is part of a longer homily by Jesuit priest, Fr Richard Leonard. Fr Richard Leonard SJ is the Director of the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting, is a member of the Australian Catholic Media Council and is author of Preaching to the Converted, Paulist Press, New York, 2006.

Post Plenary Perceptions - Thursday 8 September 5:30-8:30pm

The Council for Catholic Women Perth warmly invites you to hear Perth's women members share their experience of the second assembly of the Plenary Council.

There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion. All welcome.

• Venue : James Nestor Hall ,Catholic Education Office 50 Ruislip St West Leederville
• When: Thursday 8 September, 5:30pm - 8:30pm 
  Light refreshments served 5:30pm - 6pm)
• RSVP by Tuesday 6 September to kerrymacfarlane2@gmail.com or mobile
   0400 886 835