OUR FAITH
PRAYER
Dear God, we give thanks for your love made known to us through the love of our families, may we continue to grow in our faith and love of you and share your Gospel through our words and actions and in this way be messengers of joy in and for the world.
Amen
We pray ...
for..... all Year 12 students in particular the McCarthy Catholic College students as they sit their HSC exams, for Miss Laura Chapman and her family on the safe arrival of their precious baby boy and for all those experiencing loss and devastation as a result of the Israel situation and bushfires.
LITURGY NEWS
This week some of our Year 6 students had the opportunity to attend Reconciliation and Kindergarten had a visit with Fr Chris. Next week some of our Year 5 students will attend Reconciliation and Year 1 will have a visit with one of our parish priests.
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY WEEK - Sharing Life
This week our diocese is celebrating Marriage and Family Week. It provides an opportunity to explore with students an aspect/s of the Catholic understanding of the way we experience God’s faithfulness. We are all called to be holy by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we do, wherever we find ourselves. This holiness to which the Lord calls, grows through small gestures.
God is with us always and families in the daily routine of everyday life, can become a new way of fulfilling the specific call of the family: to render love normal.
FAMILY MASS
This term Family Mass will be celebrated on Sunday 5th November (Year 3 families encouraged to attend) and Sunday 3rd December (Year 2 & Year 4 families encouraged to attend) at St Nicholas Church commencing at 9.30a.m. Please mark these dates in your diaries and join us as it is a chance to gather together as a community to celebrate.
CATHOLIC MISSION
October is Mission Month
This year’s Catholic Mission theme is 'Kick Goals For Good in 2023'. Catholic Mission is asking that we join others throughout Australia to learn more about issues of mission and justice and to reach out to the children in Timor-Leste in an effort to support a brighter future. To support Catholic Mission Month our school will be having a “Crazy Socktober Day” on Friday 20th October where the students will be allowed to wear colourful and outrageous socks to school for the day. The students are asked to bring a gold coin donation to school on this day to help raise funds and awareness of how all children have the right to a brighter future. More information about Catholic Mission can be found at https://www.socktober.org.au/
October – Decade a Day
Beginning the first day of Term 4 each grade will take turns and pray a decade of the Rosary. You to may like to do this in your homes. The Rosary helps us to see our human lives in the light of Christ. It is a prayer that can be prayed at any time; however its simplicity and repetition make the Rosary particularly helpful in life’s pauses, journeys and moments of waiting.
