Liturgy

Community Mass

The first Community Mass for Term 2 will be Friday 23 April. All are welcome to this liturgy, which will be prepared by students in Year 7.

Community Mass summary

• College Chapel
• Fridays in term time
• Starts: 8:00am and concludes 8:30am

SACRAMENT PROGRAM

Do you have a child in Year 3, 4 or 6?

It is imperative that your child is enrolled in a parish Sacrament Program.  Some parishes have already finalised enrolments for 2021. 

Doesn’t the school RE curriculum cover the sacrament knowledge?

Yes, that is correct. Most parishes do not require students in Catholic schools to take additional classes in the parish. However, the parish community still needs families to complete the enrolment process in order to celebrate the sacraments. 

How to enrol

Contact the parish (parish secretary, sacrament coordinator or parish priest). Parish contact details are available here.  The College provides information from some of our local parishes. It is the parents’ right and responsibility to follow up with enrolling their child in the parish. 

Please check below for the enrolment dates and procedures for some of our local parishes. 

Saint Thomas Apostle, Claremont

First Communion Friday 21 May 

Confirmation Friday 27 August 

Reconciliation October 

Please note that, due to current COVID restrictions on maximum capacity, priority for enrolment will go to families who are in the parish of Saint Thomas Apostle. 

Please see http://www.johnxxiii.edu.au/view/parent-resources/parish-sacraments 

Enrolment forms are available from silvia.kinder@iona.wa.edu.au

St Mary Star of the Sea, Cottesloe/Corpus Christi, Mosman Park 

Reconciliation Saturday 27 March

First Holy Communion Sunday 1 August

Information Day: Thursday 29 April, 4-5pm, Parish Centre, 2 McNeil Street, Peppermint Grove.

Confirmation Sunday 7 November

Information Day: 5 August, 4-5pm Parish Centre, 2 McNeil Street, Peppermint Grove.

Enrolment information and contact details for the Sacrament Coordinator may be found here. 

Holy Spirit, City Beach

Enrolment information and contact details for the Sacrament Coordinator may be found here

St Mary’s, Leederville

Enrolment information may be found  in the below attachment.

Registration: Goretti – 94449624  smc_secretary@aapt.net.au

If you would like further information about the Sacrament Program:

• If your nearest parish is not listed, search the Archdiocesan website;
• Check the information available on the College website here
• Contact Mary-Anne Lumley mary-anne.lumley@cew.edu.au OR phone 9383 0408

GOOD NEWS for Palm Sunday

Jesuit, Andrew Hamilton, gives us the following reflection for Palm Sunday which celebrates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and the beginning of Holy Week.  

Father Andy is a Jesuit, a theologian, a writer and, among his many other roles, the Media Officer for Jesuit Social Services.

This year we shall again celebrate Palm Sunday in the shadow of Coronavirus. As in previous years Palm Sunday is a day for remembering refugees. Marches took place through many cities and towns, their banners recalling the branches waved as Jesus entered Jerusalem in the Gospel story, and the fate of so many people who have sought asylum echoing the end of Jesus’ life journey on Good Friday.

March is also a year since CV was declared to be a pandemic. The Palm Sunday march, like other large events, was cancelled. At Jesuit Social Services we grieved the loss of opportunity to walk under our Jesuit Social Services and Catholic Alliance for People seeking Asylum banners in solidarity with refugees. The uncertainty caused by the virus, however, has also brought home to us the experience of refugees, which echoes Jesus’ journey from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday, from the memory of ordinary life with its triumphs and disappointments, its meetings in the streets, its friendships and rivalries, and all its predictability. It takes us also to their later time of flight, perhaps to arrest, to pursuit, and to the living death of the loss of freedom, of dignity and of sharing in the joy of shared enterprises and relationships. It snatches us from the tapestry of the ordinary relationships to the broken thread of isolated lives. 

In Australia the lives of people who have sought protection mirror Jesus’ confinement in Jerusalem at the end of the week that began so promisingly on Palm Sunday. For him that was a relatively short time of lost freedom, of concealment behind thick walls, of casual brutality, of sudden invisibility, of arraignment before judges who had already decided to have him killed, from being a human agent to being a cipher in other people’s games. 

The life of people who have sought protection from Australia is best seen through the eyes of people who became physically and mentally ill through years of confinement on Nauru and Manus Island. Under legislation forced on the Government they were brought to Australia for treatment.  Many were held in city hotels, untreated and confined. They could look out on the city streets, on people living the unconfined lives which they had sought for themselves and their families, look out on all the casual conversations, the hurry to work each morning and return home each evening, and the daily activities that build a nation. And like animals in a zoo, they could see the occasional person looking in at them, kept alive but deprived of life. Many were recently released from these places of mental torture to an unsupported life in the community, not out of compassion but because but because they would cost the government less. Many remain in confinement.

This image of these refugees belongs together with the familiar story of Palm Sunday and the week that it introduced. It represents a man who enters the city as king and judge, and later is betrayed for a few coins, is mocked and judged. But his suffering and God’s raising him from the dead really judge those who judged him. 

The people who look to us for protection have similarly been judged, put on display as deterrence, and their lives measured by their financial costs. They look out on the Australians who have done this to them and ask what we value, what price we put on humanity and compassion, what values we have. As they look out, they invite us to look inwards and to reflect on our lives and our nation.

© Andrew Hamilton