Religious Education
CARITAS K'S
A Caritas K’s Sponsor Booklet has been sent home to each family, for you to collect sponsorship for your child/children’s participation in the Caritas K’s Walk/Run on the last day of term.
At St Kilian’s School, we raise money for Project Compassion each Lenten season. These funds support Caritas Australia to provide Aid for the poorest people both here in Australia and overseas. Each year, during Lent, the students from our school undertake this fantastic fundraising effort called ‘Caritas K’s’. We walk in solidarity with the poor to demonstrate our understanding of their needs and raise much needed funds to support them.
This is our main social justice event each year so we’d love families to get on board, and help us to help the needy! We ask that as a family you return both the Sponsor Booklet and the money raised to the school office before the end of term.
We will walk/run laps of Lake Weeroona on Thursday 28th March, which is the last day of term. We depart school at 9.00am and return by 11.00am. The length of the walk differs from year level to year level with grade Prep and Grade1 students are encouraged to do one lap and our senior Grade 5 & 6 students about 6 laps, although this is an estimate. Parents, younger siblings & friends are invited to walk with us to/from the lake to support this event.
For more information: https://www.caritas.org.au/
Carolyn Maher
Catholic Identity Leader
WEEKEND GOSPEL
GOSPEL Jn 12:20-33
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
If a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it yields a rich harvest.
Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. These approached Philip, who came from Bethsaida in Galilee, and put this request to him, ‘Sir, we should like to see Jesus.’ Philip went to tell Andrew, and Andrew and Philip together went to tell Jesus. Jesus replied to them:
‘Now the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
I tell you most solemnly, unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies,
it remains only a single grain; but if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.
Anyone who loves his life loses it; anyone who hates his life in this world
will keep it for the eternal life. If a man serves me, he must follow me, wherever I am,
my servant will be there too. If anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.
Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say: Father, save me from this hour?
But it was for this very reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name!’
A voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’
People standing by, who heard this, said it was a clap of thunder; others said,
‘It was an angel speaking to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘It was not for my sake that this voice came, but for yours. ‘Now sentence is being passed on this world; now the prince of this world is to be overthrown.
And when I am lifted up from the earth, I shall draw all men to myself.’
By these words he indicated the kind of death he would die.
A beginning point for discussion of this week's Gospel with children:
- Who has seen seeds form on a plant?
- What happens to the plant after it makes seeds?
The plant or flowers eventually die and the seed dries, ready for planting.
- How do you make a seed grow?
Jesus tells us that choosing to serve him rather than ourselves is like a seed which dies and then grows to produce fruit.
- How does choosing to follow Jesus give us new life?
- When should we die to ourselves and choose Jesus’ path rather than our own?
We pray that this week we will choose to follow Jesus and do his will.
