Faith at St Joseph's...

Westernport Catholic Parish Confirmation  

Bishop Tony Ireland

St. Brendan’s school students

Saturday, July 23rd, 3:00 pm

St Brendan’s Church, Somerville.

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St. Joseph’s and St. Mary’s student

Sunday, July 24th, 1:00 pm

The Immaculate Conception Church, Hastings.

This Saturday and Sunday the Parish school students will make their Confirmation.  We congratulate all the students and wish them all the best as they become young adults in the Catholic Church.

At Confirmation, we are strengthened in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives us the grace to help our faith to grow.  We are challenged to live as true followers of Jesus.

The Holy Spirit gives us gifts for our life. Gifts of wisdom, understanding, right judgement, courage, knowledge, reverence and wonder and awe.  These are character strengths that will assist your child in becoming a strong member of the community as they get ready to move onto Secondary school next year.

As a Christian community, we witness and recognise the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit alive and working within us throughout our life’s journey. The Gifts of the Holy Spirit, given to us in Baptism, enable us to live a good life.

At Confirmation, we accept these gifts and are challenged to develop them.

The evidence of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit can be seen in the ways we grow in the life of Jesus.

Please click above to view slideshow.

Living the Gospel

What messages are in Scripture?

The theme for the Slideshow is about how the scriptures found in the Bible provide us with messages for people in today's world.  The 4 Gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John retold stories of the life of Jesus in the section of the Bible called the New Testament.  A big focus was on the Parable stories told by Jesus which always had a moral to the story for the people of the time to reflect on and respond through their actions in the community.