Religious Education & Pastoral Care
Mrs Deb McDouall
Religious Education Coordinator
School mass
A warm welcome back to the school term.
Our first school mass will be on Monday, 4th August at 11.30am. This will be organised by the wonderful students in Year 1 & 2 along with Mrs Phillips. Everyone is most welcome to join us for this celebration.
Our next school mass will be at the end of week 4; Friday 15 August at 9.30am. This is the feast of the Assumption and we look forward to the capable young people in stage 2 (Years 3 & 4) leading us in this celebration.
Staff Prayer Day
Our final day of last term saw our staff come together in our annual day of prayer, reflecting on the themes for the Jubilee year. We extend our thanks to members of the Armidale Catholic Schools Renewal team; Leonie Keoghan and Di Brown who led us through some very thought-provoking tasks and discussions during the day.
Religion Test
Every year all our Year 6 students sit a Diocese-wide test based on the Religion Curriculum. The testing window will open shortly with St Joseph's sitting this test in Week 4 of this term. If any parents have questions about this process, please reach out to me.
What is a Jubilee?
A Jubilee is a special year of grace and conversion, involving prayer, pilgrimage and sacramental repentance, held every 25 years, or during other years as called for by the Pope.
The most recent (ordinary) Jubilee celebrated was the Great Jubilee of 2000. The most recent Extraordinary Jubilee Year was 2015, the Holy Year of Mercy.
Jubilee celebration has biblical roots, and therefore it presents us with a wonderful opportunity to deepen our appreciation of those roots.
Through a series of concrete rituals, acts and commitments, the goal of a Jubilee year is to inspire and encourage holiness of life among the faithful and therefore to strengthen the Church’s witness to God’s loving mercy in and for the world.
Consecrated persons are invited to live this Jubilee in the way of peace, as captured in the official motto shared by DICLSAL: Pilgrims of hope on the path of peace.
