Education in Faith
OHR Feast Day Mass - Friday 22nd November
Each year, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday of the Church’s liturgical year - this year, that Sunday is on the 24th of November. This is also the feast day of Our Holy Redeemer Church and School. Therefore, we will be celebrating OHR's Feast Day with a whole school Mass. This will be at 9.00am on Friday 22 November in the Church. We are fortunate that our new parish priest Fr. Sang Ho will be the celebrant for this mass. Everybody is most welcome to join us.
Vinnies Christmas Appeal 2024
Here is a copy of the presentation made by our RE School Leaders at Week 4's assembly..
Good morning teachers and students. This year the RE Leaders would like the whole school to get involved in supporting the St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal. This is often just shortened to the Vinnies Christmas Appeal.
This Christmas, more families are experiencing poverty and are on the brink of homelessness due to the relentless rising cost-of-living in Australia. The crisis has been an ongoing issue impacting Australians for over two years with no sign of reprieve. As the crisis deepens, so does the amount of people turning to Vinnies for support.
The St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia has more than 60,000 members and volunteers, who work hard to assist people in need and combat social injustice across Australia. Internationally, the Society operates in 153 countries and has over 800,000 members.
There are two ways we will be supporting the work of Vinnies.
The first option is to bring in non perishable food items, especially those with a Christmas theme. This will help provide food for a family to celebrate Christmas with a meal together. These can be left in your classroom and we will collect them before the end of term
Finally, for the rest of the year the RE/Social Justice Team will be selling Zooper Dooper icy poles for 50c after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 - 3:30pm at the tuckshop window.
If anybody would like to donate a pack (or more) of Zooper Doopers please bring them to the office.
A snapshot of RE Learning in Prep HW
We are learning about the long wait.
Before Jesus was born people had waited a very long time for a leader to come and help them. People had told stories about a great leader, a Messiah for a long time before Jesus was born. God had promised them a leader like the Good Shepherd leading his sheep. The people belived God's promise, they waited and they waited. Finally after the long wait the time drew near for the coming of this great leader.
In PHW we have been wondering about how we feel when we are waiting for something important to happen.
We are learning about the season of Advent and what the candles on the Advent wreath represent.
We are learning a new prayer. You may wish to pray it with your child as we head into the season of Advent.
We wait for God's promise.
Come Lord Jesus
We wait for a new day.
Come Lord Jesus
We wait for a better world.
Come Lord Jesus
Sunday Gospel
The liturgy of the Catholic Church provides a framework for reflection which is used by Catholics throughout the world. Each week in the Newsletter, you will find the Sunday Gospel as well as some discussion questions to have with your child/ren.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
‘Are you the king of the Jews?’ Pilate asked. Jesus replied, ‘Do you ask this of your own accord, or have others spoken to you about me?’ Pilate answered, ‘Am I a Jew? It is your own people and the chief priests who have handed you over to me: what have you done?’ Jesus replied, ‘Mine is not a kingdom of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my men would have fought to prevent my being surrendered to the Jews. But my kingdom is not of this kind.’ ‘So you are a king then?’ said Pilate. ‘It is you who say it’ answered Jesus. ‘Yes, I am a king. I was born for this, I came into the world for this: to bear witness to the truth; and all who are on the side of truth listen to my voice.’
Discussion Questions
1. On Sunday, we celebrate the feast of Christ the King. In the Gospel, Pilate asks Jesus if he is a king. Jesus confirms that he is, but that his kingdom does not belong to this world. A king is someone who leads and protects his people. How can we follow Christ as our king?
2. How does he lead and protect us?
Nick Byrne
RE Leader