Catholic Identity
Holy Week
As a school today, we celebrated a very significant event in the Catholic Church Calander. The children sang, danced, prayed, acted and remembered Holy Week. Students presented Jesus’ life, Palm Sunday, The Last Supper, Jesus praying in the garden and Good Friday. Students will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus when they return in Term 2.
Mercy Awards
Today the Mercy Award for ‘Respect’ was presented during assembly. Congratulations to all the recipients.
Our next award for the first 3 weeks of Term 2 is for the quality of showing ‘Justice’.
Some ways we can show JUSTICE here at St Joseph's are:
- following the rules
- being kind by including others
- being openminded and listening to other opinions
- standing up for what is right and what is kind
Project Compassion
Thank you all so very much for your generous contributions to Project Compassion this Lent. The donations have been overwhelming! We have collected an incredible amount to donate to Caritas Australia. These donations can assist with efforts such as providing water tanks for communities, hygiene training and supporting people with disabilities with rehabilitation. We will let you know of our final total in the next newsletter.
Big Water Walk
Today we held our Big Water Walk. Grades F-4 spent the afternoon carrying buckets of water around the oval and Grades 5 and 6 walked to Thompson’s Beach to collect some water to carry back to school. The aim of this event was an act of solidarity to ‘walk in the shoes’ of people, living in such places as Africa, Asia and the Pacific, who need to walk long distances to collect clean, safe water every day.
The water collected was deposited into House Colour bins. All House Colours received points for their efforts. Well done everyone!
St Joseph the Worker Mass
Family and friends are welcome to join us to celebrate our Whole school Mass - St Joseph the Worker on Friday May 2nd @ 11:30am.
Information about St Joseph the Worker
May 1 is the feast day of Saint Joseph the Worker, reflecting his status as a carpenter and patron of workers. While Saint Joseph has his principal feast day on March 19, the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker was introduced by Pope Pius XII in 1955 as an ecclesiastical counterpart to International Workers Day, also held on May 1. Saint Joseph was the foster father of Jesus and is held up by the Church as a model of the holiness of human labour. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus is referred to as “the carpenter’s son”. Pope Pius XII said Saint Joseph was a model of holiness to all workers. “The spirit flows to you and to all men from the heart of the God-man, Savior of the world, but certainly, no worker was ever more completely and profoundly penetrated by it than the foster father of Jesus, who lived with Him in closest intimacy and community of family life and work,” he said. The feast day was established to both honour Saint Joseph and to make people aware of the dignity of human work, which has long been celebrated as a participation in the creative work of God.
Weekday Mass
Next Term our weekday class Masses will be celebrated on Fridays at 11:30. Please see below for the Term 2 timetable.
