Faith and Mission

NADOIC Week Prayer

Holy God,

Today we are grateful, and we celebrate this nation’s true history,

beginning long before time.

The First People of this ancient land who gave them birth,

who gives them life – Mother Earth.

We honour them and share their joy.

You, Wisdom, call us body, call us one,

To walk together, people from many lands,under this same golden sun, together

First Nations Peoples and all of us who have since come.

Together there is a new song to be sung,

as old as time.

Hear the yidaki, hear the bilma,

the Ancestors call.Wisdom, help us to listen, to follow, to learn, to grow.

In the name of Christ, we pray. 

Amen.

Kairos Retreat

Ten Year 12 retreatant joined our Oblate priests, staff members and old boys for our annual Kairos Retreat at St John of God Retreat Centre in beautiful Shoalwater Bay. The retreat ran for 4 days and was full of numerous activities, including opportunities for prayer and personal reflection. After the 4 days of retreat, the participants were tired but inspired by the experience. 

Thank you to Fathers McMahon, Ousley and Joe Antony as well as Br Luan for their participation and support of Kairos. Thank you also to Mrs Scanlan and Mrs Cox as well as old boys Karl Stevenson, Sam Fiolo and Josh Newton for their dedicated service to the retreatants. We are looking forward to Kairos #10 in 2024.

Flower Roster Volunteers

Morning Mass 

Week day Masses begin at 8:00am in the College Chapel. However, Wednesday morning Mass begins at 8:10am. These Masses are assigned to a group of students who are involved in their preparation and focus on a particular theme or feast day. Below is a table outlining this term’s Wednesday masses to which everyone from the Mazenod community is extended a warm invitation to attend.

Term 3: Wednesday Masses

NAIDOC Week 2023

2-9 July 2023

We’re proud to announce that the 2023 National NAIDOC Week theme is For Our Elders. 

Across every generation, our Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role and hold a prominent place in our communities and families. 

They are cultural knowledge holders, trailblazers, nurturers, advocates, teachers, survivors, leaders, hard workers and our loved ones.

Our loved ones who pick us up in our low moments and celebrate us in our high ones. Who cook us a feed to comfort us and pull us into line, when we need them too. 

They guide our generations and pave the way for us to take the paths we can take today. Guidance, not only through generations of advocacy and activism, but in everyday life and how to place ourselves in the world.

We draw strength from their knowledge and experience, in everything from land management, cultural knowledge to justice and human rights. Across multiple sectors like health, education, the arts, politics and everything in between, they have set the many courses we follow.

The struggles of our Elders help to move us forward today. The equality we continue to fight for is found in their fight. Their tenacity and strength has carried the survival of our people.

It is their influence and through their learnings that we must ensure that when it comes to future decision making for our people, there is nothing about us - without us. 

We pay our respects to the Elders we’ve lost and to those who continue fighting for us across all our Nations and we pay homage to them. 

In 2023, how will you celebrate For Our Elders? 

- Mr Steven Satour and Aunty (Dr) Lyn Riley (Co-Chairs of the National NAIDOC Committee)

Damian Wallis

Director of Faith and Mission