Catholic Identity
Religious Education, Sacramental and Faith Celebration News
Our Lady of the Southern Cross Primary School
In this newsletter...
RE Dates for your diary
Feast of St Mary MacKillop
Sacrament of Confirmation
Junior Family Faith Nights
Community Masses 2026
RE Dates for your diary...
Friday 14th August - Whole School Mass, 12pm
Sunday 16th August - Community Mass, 10am
Tuesday 1st September - Year 1/2 Family Faith night, 6pm
Wednesday 2nd September - Father's Day prayer service, 9am
Tuesday 15th September - Preps in PJs Family Faith night, 6pm
Feast of St. Mary MacKillop
On Saturday, the Church celebrated the Feast of St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop, Australia’s first saint. We celebrate Mary's Feast Day because of what she stood for. At the age of 24, she opened a school so children living in poverty could get an education, at a time when many were denied that chance. Every 8 August, we remember her courage and carry her mission forward.
Sacrament of Confirmation
Also on Saturday, students from OLSC ceelbrated the Sacrament of Confirmation with the other schools of our Parish. The celebration was held at MacKillop College. We are incredibly grateful to MacKillop College for making their facilities and staff available for us to have Confirmation together, and to make it such a beautiful liturgy. Thanks must also be given to the Year 6 team for their efforts in teaching and preparing our Canididates for this significant step in their faith lives.
Congratulations, finally, must go to the follow students who were Confirmed:
Aanya K | Alek D | Alicia L | Alliemay W | Alvina E |
Arach D | Aria W | Arjun K | Axel Q | Caitlyn L |
Daniel S | Emily-Rose M | Ethan M | Gavin S | Gia V |
Hannah L | Hudson N | Inari I | Isabelle P | Jaxon L |
Kayden F | Leah F | Liliana E | Lucilla LVF | Luke L* |
Meleena W | Mercy A | Michael L | Mothika M | Natalie S |
Naveen K | Nimna D | Nylah C | Reuben H | Samantha J |
Sanuk M | Sofie R | Xavier V | Zoie Y | Evan J |
Benjamin I-J |
Junior Faith Nights
We would like to invite our Prep and 1/2 families to this year's Faith Nights. These are wonderful opportunities to gather together and spend time in prayer, listening to stories and working together as a family. We hope to see as many families join us on these evenings as possible.
Community Masses in 2026
This year, Community Masses will be run all the way through the year on every third Sunday of the month. The dates are below - we invite everyone to join us during 2026 for these Masses, as we continue to build up this faith community.
We encourage you to spread the word of our Community Masses and invite as many family, friends, neighbours and others to these celebrations.
John Dini
Deputy Principal
Catholic Identity Leader