Education in Faith
Holy Week
This week, we have been focusing on the events of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Good Friday. It is a most special story for our Christian community. Our faith journey with Jesus in Holy week has us remembering his last days and moments. This journey is filled with excitement and celebration and of sadness and suffering.
Throughout the week, homegroups took a walk through Holy Week, where we followed Jesus’ journey. Stations were set up in our Galleria to represent each part of the story.
Today, students reflected on the events of Holy Week with a special Liturgy of the Word. We joined together as a whole school community for a wonderful celebration, led by our Senior Faith and Mission Leaders. It was a wonderful way to engage together during Holy Week and begin our final day of Term 1 today.
Reconciliation Family Faith Night
Thank you to all the families who came along to our family faith formation night on Tuesday. It was a wonderful opportunity for students to share with their families everything they knew about forgiveness and missing the mark. Our celebrations for Reconciliation are the first week back of Term 2. Please find attached information about the evening.
Easter wishes
Please have a happy, safe and holy Easter holiday. We look forward to celebrating the joyous season of Easter when we return in Term 2!
EASTER BLESSING
“On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry – old pains, old habits, old ways of seeing and feeling – and let us have the courage to begin again. Life is very short, and we are no sooner here than it is time to depart again, and we should use to the full the time that we still have.
We don’t realize all the good we can do. A kind, encouraging word or helping hand can bring many a person through dark valleys in their lives. We weren’t put here to make money or to acquire status or reputation. We were sent here to search for the light of Easter in our hearts, and when we find it we are meant to give it away generously. The dawn that is rising this Easter morning is a gift to our hearts and we are meant to celebrate it and to carry away from this holy, ancient place the gifts of healing and light and the courage of a new beginning.”
John O’Donohue
Dawn Mass Reflections at Corcomroe Abbey
Sarah
Education in Faith Leader