Liturgy

Community Liturgy

The first Community Mass for Semester 2 will be on Friday 26 July, and will be prepared by Magis students. 

Thank you to students in Year 7 for their beautiful preparation of today’s Eucharist.  Our weekly liturgy is one of the places where the College especially experiences itself as a community and communion of students, families and staff.  For those who can stay, there is coffee in the Circle of Friends café after Mass.

Community Liturgy summary

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

Sacrament Program 

CONGRATULATIONS

… to all the students in Years 4 and 6 who have recently celebrated their First Communion or Confirmation with their families in their parishes

First Communion

If you have any other questions about the Sacrament Program:

• Contact your Parish Priest or Sacrament Coordinator.
• Contact Mary-Anne Lumley, Parish Liaison  Mary-Anne.Lumley@cewa.edu.au or 9383 0513.
• College website
• Information for all parishes may be found on the archdiocesan website http://www.perthcatholic.org.au/Parishes_and_Mass_Times.htm?cms%2Erm=List

GOOD NEWS for: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Luke 10: 1-9

The reflection for this Sunday’s Gospel is an extract from a longer homily by Jesuit priest, Fr Richard Leonard. Fr Richard Leonard SJ is the Director of the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting, is a member of the Australian Catholic Media Council and is author of Preaching to the Converted, Paulist Press, New York, 2006.

Traditionally, this Gospel has been used to talk about vocations to the priestly and religious life. While it can apply to these specific roles of service in the Church, to exclusively read the labourers in the harvest as priests and religious undermines the power of Jesus' message. His commission of the seventy disciples must be read over and against his commissions to the twelve. The seventy are called to be evangelisers, to go and prepare the way for Jesus to visit the surrounding villages and towns. This commission is for the whole community. It is the priesthood of all believers. The twelve are later commissioned to serve as leaders of the community.

Through baptism we have all been commissioned to go out to live and proclaim the Good News of Christ, to keep journeying on to all our sisters and brothers and prepare the way for Christ to come into their lives. The number of labourers for this harvest has never been greater. We have never had more Christians in the world than we have right now. If all of us who have been baptised in Christ were living out the Gospel and bringing it to bear in our personal, family, social and national life, then the world would be transformed. As Gandhi once said, ‘I would take the waters of Christian baptism tomorrow if I saw Christians living out what they profess to believe.’ We seem to have lost our courage, our nerve for the task at hand. We have been consumed by sheepishness and daunted by the wolves.

Jesus reminds us that to live out this commission we need to depend on each other for support, hospitality and kindness. He challenges us to travel light and stick together.

So let us pray in our Eucharist for ourselves, the labourers who are putting in a hard day's work in the harvest. Let us pray for the gift of faith and gratitude for the privilege of the commission. Let us also pray that all baptised people will live out their faith in such a manner that it prepares the way for the Christ to come in every village and town. And let us ask for eyes to see the extraordinary flowering of vocations throughout the Church and celebrate how grace comes in many shapes and sizes.

© Richard Leonard