Catholic Identity
TERM 2 MASSES
Over Term 2 we have several School and Community Masses scheduled for St John’s. Parents are warmly invited to join us for these celebrations. All dates are listed in the dates sections of this newsletter, but I would like to draw your attention to special dates.
Jayden Nedeski Memorial Mass
We will be remembering Jayden at our School Mass on Wednesday 22nd May. Parents are most welcome to join us at this Mass.
Please click on the link below for the dates of all Community Masses this year:
PRAYER
Next Sunday we celebrate the 6th week of Easter, with the season drawing to a close soon. The seasons of the church recall and celebrate various events in the life of Christ and his saints. Having experienced the pain and sorrow of the crucifixion, then the joy and new life of the resurrection, we hear this week that the followers of Jesus now have to face the reality that the Risen Lord will depart again. He senses their confusion, pain and sense of loss. But before he leaves them, he gives those two parting gifts; The Holy Spirit and his own Peace.
Families may like to spend some time this week reflecting on the First Reading from next Sunday’s Mass;
Acts 10:25‐26,34‐35,44‐48
As Peter reached the house Cornelius went out to meet him, knelt at his feet and prostrated himself. But Peter helped him up. ‘Stand up,’ he said ‘I am only a man after all!’
Then Peter addressed them: ‘The truth I have now come to realise’ he said ‘is that God does not have favourites, but that anybody of any nationality who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to him.’
While Peter was still speaking the Holy Spirit came down on all the listeners. Jewish believers who had accompanied Peter were all astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit should be poured out on the pagans too, since they could hear them speaking strange languages and proclaiming the greatness of God. Peter himself then said, ‘Could anyone refuse the water of baptism to these people, now they have received the Holy Spirit just as much as we have?’ He then gave orders for them to be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. Afterwards they begged him to stay on for some days.
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