Education in Faith
Whole School Masses
Thank you to everybody who came to our Mass last Friday to celebrate the end of Term 1, especially our helpers and readers.
To start Term 2 we will have a special ANZAC Day Mass on Friday 24th April at 9.00am in the OHR Church. Before we begin Mass, we are fortunate that Brigadier John Holloway (father of Freddie in 3/4JH) will speak to the students about the significance of ANZAC Day. Everybody is most welcome.
Senior School Passion Play
Congratulations to our Senior School Students who presented the Passion Play to the school community yesterday morning. They did an amazing job and their interpretation of the events of Holy Week in Matthew's Gospel was engaging and profound.
The final scene - The Resurrection, will be presented to the whole school at 3.00pm in the Hall on the first day of Term 2 (Monday 20th April) - everybody is most welcome.
Project Compassion
Project Compassion, Caritas Australia’s annual fundraising and awareness-raising appeal, brings thousands of Australians together in solidarity with the world's poor to help end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity. The theme this year is ‘Unite Against Poverty ’
The RE Leaders, have signed OHR up on Caritas’ website and are planning a few things. Firstly, they have again decided that they want to give everybody a chance to see the staff of OHR dunked with icy cold water.
In order to do this, they have set the students a challenge. The challenge is to show some initiative and organise a fundraiser to raise as much money as they can for Project Compassion. They can do this by themselves, with their family or a group of friends. It might be as simple as asking family and friends for donations or a much bigger idea - whatever they like.
Last year, for every $300 we raised as a school, another staff member got dunked. This year, we have a few extra volunteers, so when we raise $250, the first staff member is added to the dunk list, when we get to $500 the next one goes on the list and so on.
We did a draw at assembly the other week and the dunk list is as follows:
$250 - Mr Byrne
$500 - Mrs Pettinato
$750 - Mrs Jackson
$1,000 - Mrs Mitchell
$1,250 - Mrs Gill
$1,500 - Mrs Hollow
$1,750 - Ms Mackay
$2,000 - Mr Gulavin
$2,250 - Mrs Hansen
$2,500 - Mrs Hautot
$2,750 - Ms Dening
$3,000 - Fr Sang
$3,250 - Mr Dame
To make donations, simply click the link below.
If you get cash donations, you might be able to give the cash to your parents and they donate that amount online. The last date to donate money will be the first day of Term 2, Monday 20th April.
On Monday, all students at OHR undertook the Big Water Walk with their buddies. This involved walking around our school while carrying large buckets of water.
Finally, the money raised will be combined with the money in the Project Compassion boxes as well as what the RE Leaders have raised from selling zooper doopers on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They will stop selling these at the end of this term.
Thank you and don’t forget, we all need to “Unite Against Poverty” this Lent.
Nick Byrne
RE Leader
RE Learning in 5/6CM
Yesterday, the school community gathered to reflect on the events of Holy Week as they were depicted by the senior students in the annual Passion Play.
Over the last few weeks the 5/6 students have been researching the story of the “Passion of Christ.” We started by studying the etymology of the word “Passion” and discovered that it stems from the Latin “passio” meaning suffering, which derived from “pati” meaning, to suffer, bear, or endure. This set the tone of what was to come. We knew that the last week of Jesus’ life was filled with suffering.
Next we researched Matthew… the author of the Gospel being studied this year. Read below to see what we found out about Matthew.
Following this, the students were placed into groups where they worked collaboratively to write scripts and organise props and costumes. They then rehearsed in their groups and finally presented their few weeks of work in very moving re enactments of the events of Holy Week.
The final scene - The Resurrection, will be presented to the whole school at 3.00pm in the Hall on the first day of Term 2 (Monday 20th April) - everybody is most welcome.
Sunday Gospel
The liturgy of the Catholic Church provides a framework for reflection which is used by Catholics throughout the world. Each week in the Newsletter, you will find the Sunday Gospel as well as some discussion questions to have with your child/ren.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’
So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first; he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter who was following now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
Discussion Questions
1. What do you have that is new?
2. How do you feel when you have something new?
3. Easter Sunday, is exciting because we celebrate Jesus’ rising and living among us. How can we show that Jesus lives within us in a new way?