Religious Education 

CARITAS K'S  

A Caritas K’s Sponsor Booklet has been sent home to each family, for you to collect sponsorship for your child/children’s participation in the Caritas K’s Walk/Run on the last day of term.

At St Kilian’s School, we raise money for Project Compassion each Lenten season. These funds support Caritas Australia to provide Aid for the poorest people both here in Australia and overseas. Each year, during Lent, the students from our school undertake this fantastic fundraising effort called ‘Caritas K’s’. We walk in solidarity with the poor to demonstrate our understanding of their needs and raise much needed funds to support them. 

This is our main social justice event each year so we’d love families to get on board, and help us to help the needy! We ask that as a family you return both the Sponsor Booklet and the money raised to the school office before the end of term. 

We will walk/run laps of Lake Weeroona on Thursday 28th March, which is the last day of term. We depart school at 9.00am and return by 11.00am. The length of the walk differs from year level to year level with grade Prep and Grade1 students are encouraged to do one lap and our senior Grade 5 & 6 students about 6 laps, although this is an estimate. Parents, younger siblings & friends are invited to walk with us to/from the lake to support this event. 

For more information: https://www.caritas.org.au/

Carolyn Maher

Catholic Identity Leader

WEEKEND GOSPEL 

GOSPEL       Jn 2:13-25

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.

Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market.’ Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.

During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave, but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them; he never needed evidence about any man; he could tell what a man had in him.

A beginning point for discussion of this week's Gospel with children:

• What do you like about our (your) church?
• How is it holy?
• What do we do inside the church that makes it a holy place?

In today’s gospel Jesus visited his temple.

• What did he do when he saw that people had set up stores?
• Why was Jesus angry?

Jesus wanted to keep the temple as a holy place for prayer.

Our place of prayer is made holy when we gather in God’s name or when we make a special visit.

• When are the times that we can come to our church to pray?

Let us pray that we will become more holy in this time of Lent.