Religious Education and Social Justice
Sacrament of Confirmation
This Sunday 26th May our Year 6 Confirmation candidates will receive the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Confirmation. Bishop Martin Ashe and Fr Werner Utri will lead our celebration. Please keep the children in your prayers as they take this next step in their faith journey.
Heavenly Father,
God of power and of love.
We pray for the children who received the Sacrament of Confirmation.
May your Holy Spirit help them to grow
in faith, hope and love.
May they come to know you
as the one true God
who loves them without limit.
May their hearts welcome you gladly;
May their ears hear your voice in the scriptures;
May their eyes see you in all things;
And may they proclaim your glory
as they walk in the ways of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.
Amen.
Food Drive for the St Vincent de Paul Winter Appeal
As the cold months of winter approach, we invite our school community to support our Social Justice initiative by donating to the St Vincent de Paul Society’s Winter Appeal.
We invite all the students in our school to donate some food items from the suggestions below:
- pasta
- pasta sauce
- rice
- lentils
- chickpeas
- canned tuna
- canned vegetables
- canned fruit
- cans and packets of soup
- noodles
- baked beans
- snack foods eg. muesli bars, dried fruit, chips
- breakfast cereals
- Vegemite, honey, jam
- long life milk
- sugar
- tea, coffee, Milo
We will place a basket for donations in each Learning Community until Friday 7th June. The items donated will be collected by the local St Vincent de Paul representative who will ensure the food is distributed to people in need in the local community. Please check that the cans and packets of food are not past the use-by date.
In supporting this cause we are living out the Catholic Social Teachings of Human Dignity and Preferential Option for the Poor.
Jane Wilkinson
Religious Education Leader