Education in Faith
Sacrament of Confirmation
Many of our Year 6 students will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation at Our Lady's Church at 6pm on Friday 1st September. As part of their preparation, they will also attend a Confirmation Retreat on this day at the Don Bosco Retreat Centre in Lysterfield alongside students from Our Lady’s Primary School, OLGC Primary School and other Catholic children from the Parishes of Camberwell, Balwyn Deepdene and Surrey Hills Wattle Park.
The day is facilitated by Gen Bryant and her team (https://genbryant.com) who also provide the Liturgical Music for the Confirmation Mass.
We pray for and also congratulate Otto C, Julian C, Hunter F, William G, Harriet J, Eleanor J, Emma L, Oliver R and Thomas W.
A Snapshot of RE Learning in Prep DE
This term we have been exploring the importance of family in our RE and Integrated unit. In our families we can learn how God wants us to live.
We can learn how to be kind, how to be generous, how to love and how to forgive
We can show love for our parents and family members by respecting them.
Respect means:
treating each person as special and unique,
treating each person with kindness, caring, understanding and love.
Jesus taught us to respect each other because to Jesus everyone is special and unique.
Jesus taught us not to be rude to people.
Jesus’ family loved him very much.
Jesus showed great love and respect for Mary and Joseph.
In PDE we created our own unique family crest. We picked four symbols that highlight what is important in our family. We learnt a lot from looking at each other’s Family Crests.
William: OHR is a symbol I picked, in our family because school is important to us.
Patrick: I picked the symbol of knives, fork and plate to represent how having dinner together is important in our family.
Elle: I picked an airplane because we like doing holidays together.
We pray:
Thank you, God, for the gift of my family.
For all the loving and kind things we do for each other.
Thank you, God for the gift of my family.
For the fun times we share.
Thank you, God, for the gift of my family
For the meals and celebrations we have.
Thank you, God for the gift of my family.
May we continue to care for one another.
Amen.
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 Matthew
Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day. Then, taking him aside, Peter started to remonstrate with him. ‘Heaven preserve you, Lord,’ he said. ‘This must not happen to you.’ But he turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because the way you think is not God’s way but man’s.’
Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then, will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life? Or what has a man to offer in exchange for his life?
‘For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and, when he does, he will reward each one according to his behaviour.’
The Gospel of the Lord
Discussion Questions
1. What are some of your favourite games?
2. In which of these games do people have to take turns?
3. What happens if people do not take turns?
4. Jesus tells us in today’s gospel that we must forget about ourselves and put others first. What does Jesus mean by this?
5. How can we put others’ needs before our own?
6. Why is it sometimes hard to do this?
We pray that we will think about others before ourselves this week.