Religious Education 

Last Tuesday we recognised and celebrated Shrove Tuesday by making pancakes. The following day we celebrated the beginning of the Lenten Season with the Year 1-3 students participating in an Ash Wednesday Liturgy at school and the Year 4-6 students attended the Ash Wednesday Mass at St Mary’s Church.

On Ash Wednesday, Catholics and some other Christian denominations receive ashes in the shape of a cross on their forehead. These ashes are created from the palms used during the previous year’s Palm Sunday Mass. They symbolise penance, which is appropriate as Lent is a season of penance, and remind us of our own mortality. During the Mass, as the priest or lay minister applies the ashes, he says “Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return.” Everyone who attended the Liturgy or Mass received ashes, not just practising Catholics.

Please keep in your prayers and thoughts, students that are participating in this year’s Reconciliation Program. 

If you did not receive an expression of interest form that was sent home with your child and you wish to participate, please contact Mandy at the Parish  Office- 52312177

Julie Leonard - Religious Education Leader & Wellbeing Leader