Religious Education
All students attending St Louis de Montfort's Aspendale have the right to feel safe. The care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people is a fundamental responsibility of all within our school.
The month of October each year is dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary. This is primarily due to the fact that the liturgical feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is celebrated annually on October 7.
It was instituted to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary in gratitude for the protection that she gives the Church in answer to the praying of the Rosary by the faithful.
The feast was introduced by Pope St. Pius V (1504-1572) in the year 1571 to commemorate the miraculous victory of the Christian forces in the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. The pope attributed more to the "arms" of the Rosary than the power of cannons and the valor of the soldiers who fought there.
The purpose of the Rosary is to help keep in memory certain principal events in the history of our salvation. There are twenty mysteries reflected upon in the Rosary, and these are divided into the five Joyful Mysteries (said on Monday and Saturday), the five Luminous Mysteries (said on Thursday), the five Sorrowful Mysteries (said on Tuesday and Friday), and the five Glorious Mysteries (said on Wednesday and Sunday).
It has been lovely to see many students praying the Rosary in their classes at morning prayer time.
In this month of October, let us consider this beautiful prayer of the Rosary as a means that we too can use in order to draw closer to Jesus and Mary by meditating on the great mysteries of our faith.
DATES TO REMEMBER:
Tues 11th Oct- Year 1RC/1GW Class Mass 9.15am
Wed12th October- Year 3 Parent/Child Reconciliation Workshop -3BP/3JM -5pm, 3BB/3RD -6.30pm
Tues 18th Oct-3BB/3RD- Journey Mass 9.15am
Thurs 20th Oct- 3JM/3BP- Journey Mass 9.15am
Sat 22nd Oct- 6pm/Sun 23rd Oct- 9.30am Year 3 Reconciliation Commitment Masses
Tues 8th Nov -Sacrament of Reconciliation- 3BP/3JM
Wed 9th Nov- Sacrament of Reconciliation- 3BB/3RD