Assistant Principal - Religious Identity & Mission 

Save the Date!

Sunday 24 September 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm 

St Virgil’s College is hosting a scavenger hunt using an app called TurfHunt. Join us for an afternoon of fun and frivolity as your team earns points for completing challenges throughout the local region. Then join us back at the College for a sausage sizzle to congratulate the winners. 

The cost is $35/team to participate, and this includes a soft drink and sausage on your return. Register your place on the St Virgil's College Qkr! today. So, get your friends and family together and join us to raise money for Catholic Mission whilst having a fun afternoon out. 

Catholic Mission supports projects in 43 countries, supporting 73,000 children and adults, through projects such as The Deaf and Mute Community Centre in Laos, economic relief in Sri Lanka, emergency water & sanitation in Myanmar, to name but a few. The money we raise from this event will go to helping people around the world who are suffering from poverty, terrorism, war and famine. 

Mark Waddington’s Memorial Mass 

On Friday 25 August, our staff came together in the Chapel before school for a memorial mass to remember our colleague Mark Waddington on the one-year anniversary of his death. Father Suresh led us in a beautiful mass, which reflected how Mark had lived the gospel values, and contributed to so much towards the ethos of St Virgil’s College. 

Loving and merciful God, our Heavenly Father, 

Your power brings us to birth, 

Your providence guides our lives, 

and by Your command we return to dust. 

Lord, those who die still live in Your presence, 

their lives change but do not end. 

We pray in hope for Mark  

and for all our departed loved ones known to You alone. 

In company with Christ, Who died and now lives, 

may they rejoice in Your kingdom, 

where all our tears are wiped away. 

Unite us together again in one family, 

to sing Your praise forever and ever.  

This we pray through Christ our Lord.  

Amen. 

Masses 

Our students, class by class, have been attending instructional masses this year, presided over by Father Suresh each fortnight in our Chapel. It is important for all our students to attend these instructional masses so that they become familiar and comfortable with mass proceedings. Our College Mission states - "We strive to build a Catholic learning community where we can become people of faith, generosity, excellence and integrity, connected in our desire to serve and care for each other, the marginalised and our environment." 

In addition to being an opportunity to celebrate and express our faith in Jesus, the Mass is a time when our faith in Jesus is shared, and we have the opportunity to grow and develop. Through listening to the Word and the Priest’s homily, we can draw closer in our faith in Jesus and develop a greater understanding of the life of Jesus. In addition to our class masses during Semester 2, all Senior School Year levels will walk to St Bernard’s Church so that they can experience mass in a church, with all the expectations and experience of attending mass in church.