Religious Education & Pastoral Care
Mrs Deb McDouall
Religious Education Coordinator
School mass
Congratulations on the magnificent way our beautiful young people in Stage 1 read and participated in mass last Monday. It is such a joy to watch them grow in confidence with the readings and prayers at mass. A special congratulations to Caspian for his first serve on the altar!
Today our champions in Stage 2 took on the challenge in preparing the mass for the Feast of the Assumption, when we focus on Mary going to Heaven. Thank you to the teachers and students for leading this. Also congratulations to Monty for his first go at being an altar server!
Our next school mass will be Friday 29th August at 10.15am led by our Kinders. We will also have a special prayer and blessing for all dads, grandads and special men in our lives at this mass. All are most welcome to join us!
What is a Jubilee?
A Jubilee is a special year of grace and conversion, involving prayer, pilgrimage and sacramental repentance, held every 25 years, or during other years as called for by the Pope.
The most recent (ordinary) Jubilee celebrated was the Great Jubilee of 2000. The most recent Extraordinary Jubilee Year was 2015, the Holy Year of Mercy.
Jubilee celebration has biblical roots, and therefore it presents us with a wonderful opportunity to deepen our appreciation of those roots.
Through a series of concrete rituals, acts and commitments, the goal of a Jubilee year is to inspire and encourage holiness of life among the faithful and therefore to strengthen the Church’s witness to God’s loving mercy in and for the world.
Consecrated persons are invited to live this Jubilee in the way of peace, as captured in the official motto shared by DICLSAL: Pilgrims of hope on the path of peace.
