St Kilian's School Newsletter

Religious Education 

SHROVE TUESDAY 

CARITAS K'S  

        

A Caritas K’s Sponsor Booklet is coming home tonight to each family, for you to collect sponsorship for your child/children’s participation in the Caritas K’s Walk/Run on the last day of term.

 

At St Kilian’s School, we raise money for Project Compassion each Lenten season. These funds support Caritas Australia to provide Aid for the poorest people both here in Australia and overseas. Each year, during Lent, the students from our school undertake this fantastic fundraising effort called ‘Caritas K’s’. We walk in solidarity with the poor to demonstrate our understanding of their needs and raise much needed funds to support them. 

 

This is our main social justice event each year so we’d love families to get on board, and help us to help the needy! We ask that as a family you return both the Sponsor Booklet and the money raised to the school office before the end of term. 

 

We will walk/run laps of Lake Weeroona on Thursday 28th March, which is the last day of term. We depart school at 9.00am and return by 11.00am. The length of the walk differs from year level to year level with grade Prep and Grade1 students are encouraged to do one lap and our senior Grade 5 & 6 students about 6 laps, although this is an estimate. Parents, younger siblings & friends are invited to walk with us to/from the lake to support this event. 

 

For more information: https://www.caritas.org.au/

 

 

Carolyn Maher

Catholic Identity Leader

WEEKEND GOSPEL 

GOSPEL       Mk 1:40-45

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark

The leprosy left him and he was cured.

 

A leper came to Jesus and pleaded on his knees: ‘If you want to’ he said ‘you can cure me.’ Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. ‘Of course I want to!’ he said. ‘Be cured!’ And the leprosy left him at once and he was cured. Jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him, ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your healing prescribed by Moses as evidence of your recovery.’ The man went away, but then started talking about it freely and telling the story everywhere, so that Jesus could no longer go openly into any town, but had to stay outside in places where nobody lived. Even so, people from all around would come to him.

 

 A beginning point for discussion of this week's Gospel with children:

  • In today’s gospel who came to Jesus?
  • The man had a sickness which made him an outcast. What does it mean to be an outcast?
  • What did Jesus do when he met him?
  • Jesus showed compassion and kindness when others would have sent the man away.
  • What did the man do when he was cured?
  • What would it be like to be an outcast or an outsider?
  • Jesus asks us to be kind to outsiders. How can we show kindness to people who do not feel included?

We pray that this week we will look out for ways we can show kindness to people in need.