Liturgy

Community Liturgy

Community Mass next Friday, will be prepared by Year 8. Families are warmly invited to attend our weekly liturgy – and new families are especially welcome! Mass commences at 8:00am, and finishes at 8:30am, in time for Homeroom.

During Mass next week we will also have a special blessing for our Chapel Choir and our Altar Servers. We are very lucky each week to have Altar Servers arriving at school early to assist with Community Mass. Thank you also parent, Paula Hackett, for managing the roster.

Our liturgical celebrations are enriched by our singing, which is so competently led by Mrs Haydon and accompanied by Mr Johnston. Thank you to Mrs Haydon, Mr Johnston, Chapel Choir members, all the other members of Treble Choir and Chamber Choir who assist, and their parents who enable them to be here!

Community Liturgy summary

Where: College Chapel
Time: 8:00am – 8:30 am
When: every Friday in term time

SACRAMENT PROGRAM 2020

Do you have a child currently in Year 3, 4 or 6? The children will be preparing, in their Religion classes, for the sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist and Confirmation. While the students will learn the appropriate content in their Religion classes, they celebrate the sacraments with their family in their parishes.

Parents are encouraged to enrol their child, as soon as possible, in their parish – usually, but not necessarily the parish closest to home. Please check the enrolment dates and procedures for some of our local parishes on our website.

If you have any further queries please contact Mary-Anne Lumley: mary-anne.lumley@cew.edu.au

Updates from local parishes

Holy Spirit, City Beach

Information about the Sacraments: an evening for parents

Tuesday 18 February, 6:30pm

Information: delattrecn@yahoo.fr or phone Parish Priest, Fr Emmanual-tv Dimobi, 93413131.

Saint Thomas Apostle, Claremont

Sacrament enrolments close: Friday 14 March

Registration forms are available from silvia.kinder@cewa.edu.au

Star of the Sea, Cottesloe

Enrolments next Thursday, 20 February, 3:30-5:00pm.

Further information: cottesloe@perthcatholic.org.au

Saint Cecilia, Floreat

Further information: Rita Morgan, floreat@perthcatholic.org.au

St Joseph, Subiaco

Applications open soon.

Further information: sacraments@stjosephssubiaco.org.au

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scarborough

Contact: Fr Grant Goddard

08 9341 1124 or scarborough@perthcatholic.org.au

GOOD NEWS for 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Such was said to your ancestors; but I am speaking to you” Matthew 5:17-35

2020 is the Loreto Year of Verity – or Truth, and the reflection on this Sunday’s Gospel from Father Michael Tate is appropriate. Rev. Prof. Michael Tate was a Senator for Tasmania from 1978-93 and Ambassador to The Hague and the Holy See from 1993-96. He is currently Vicar-General in the Archdiocese of Hobart and is an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania where he lectures in International Humanitarian Law.

Truth-Telling

We have just heard the least observed command of Our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount. Referring to oaths he taught, ‘Do not swear at all … instead let your “yes” mean yes and your “no” mean no. Whatever goes beyond these simple words is from the Evil One.’ This is strong language. Why does Our Lord say this?

In the same Sermon on the Mount, he teaches us the proper use of God’s name: ‘Our Father’. It is our privilege as adopted children of God to use God’s name in that way. The use of God’s name for oath-swearing is an abuse.

Our Lord was trying to establish a new sort of society (The Kingdom) within which truth-telling was of paramount importance, where there is no two-tiered way of speaking the truth. Truth telling should issue simply from the character of the person – the truthful person truthes.

We know this at the very private level of intimate relationships. As a Church, we need to heed this passage and listen to the epistle of St James recalling this passage almost verbatim. (James 5:12-13)

We could pause for a moment to pray that the Church herself heeds the Great Commission: ‘Teach them to keep all that I have commanded you.’ (Matthew 28:20)