Catholic Identity
Term 2 Mass Dates
This term, students will be attending Mass in their units. We also will have a whole school Mass to celebrate the Feasts of the Sacred Heart and a Mother's Day Liturgy. Dates for these events are below:
| Week 5 | Thurs May 28 | F/1/2 Unit Mass at St Joseph's Church (9.30am) |
| Week 7 | Thurs June 4 | Year 3/4 Unit Mass at St Joseph's Church (9.30am) |
| Week 8 | Thurs June 11 | Feast of the Sacred Heart 12pm – Whole school at St Joseph's Church |
| Week 9 | Thurs June 25 | 5/6 Unit Mass at St Joseph's Church (9.30am) |
Please note that students in Year F-2 will be attending their Unit Mass Thursday May 28. Please feel most welcome to attend.
Sacrament News - Rite of Christian Initiation
If your child has previously received the Sacraments or missed out on making the Sacraments of Initiation, please refer to the above flyer for information regarding an opportunity to do so.
GOSPEL
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
As the Father sent me, so I send you: Receive the Holy Spirit.
In the evening of the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you’, and showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord, and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you.
‘As the Father sent me,
so am I sending you.’
After saying this he breathed on them and said:
‘Receive the Holy Spirit.
For those whose sins you forgive,
they are forgiven: for those whose sins you retain,
they are retained.’
Beginning points for discussions of this week's Gospel with children:-
Today we celebrate the coming of the Spirit -
- Who do you know is a Spirit-filled person?
- What sort of things show that a person is Spirit-filled?
Let us ask the Holy Spirit to come into our hearts so that we may be Spirit filled.
Elise Nally, Catholic Identity Leader
enally@sjquarryhill.catholic.edu.au