Catholic Identity

Seeking donations of Old Socks and T-shirts

As a part of our Mission Day activities, we will participate in the Socktober appeal. As a part of these activities, we will make soccer balls made of socks and old clothes. If Anyone has old clean socks, or T-shirts that we could use for this activity we would appreciate them being donated to the school.

Sacrament of Reconciliation Preparation Program

The Parish sacramental preparation program for Reconciliation in underway with Parent Information Sessions running this week. 

If there are any students in Grade 2 or above who wish to enrol in the program, they are encouraged to contact the Parish Office at soonest convenience on 5443 3052.

The second Sacramental Information night is Thursday 19/9, at 7pm.

School and Unit Masses

You are all invited to celebrate with our students and school community at the various unit masses throughout the term. Please see the dates below:

Gospel - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him. 

They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. 

Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.” Taking a child, he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them, “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.”

Gospel Reflection

This week's reading is surprisingly fitting as we as a school prepare to celebrate the Feast of St. Therese on the 11th of October.

This Scripture passage is a lesson in humility, it calls us not to be concerned with our own greatness but to humble, to place ourselves last, to welcome others in Jesus name. In this passage Jesus uses a child to illustrate this image, it is prudent to note that in the time of Jesus children were not considered of importance in the social structures of the time, they were to be unseen and unheard.

St Therese of Lisieux's writings and life has influenced many Catholic Communities around the world, including our school. Her teachings on Catholic Spiritual life promote an attitude of love, simplicity, courage and humility. St. Therese encourages us to have a child like trust in God, and to approach our everyday tasks as services to God and others, and to not be caught up in the idea of needing to do 'great deeds' that draw attention to ourselves rather than to the Glory of God.

It is the students in our school who exhibit these characteristics that become recipients of the annual St. Therese Awards.