Mission and Religious Education

Mission and Religious Education

School Masses 

Friday 29 November Years 3 and 4 will go to Mass at 9.30am to celebrate their Term Class Mass. Everyone is welcome. 

Friday 13 December 9.30am. Whole School End of Year Mass.

Tuesday 17 December 5.30pm Year 6 Graduation Mass.

Donations for St Vincent de Paul Christmas Hamper

The St Vincent de Paul Society does a lot of great work assisting people and families in need in our local community. One of the things they do each year is provide families in need a helping hand at Christmas time with a food hamper. As we come closer to Christmas, we are looking to share the joy of Christmas with families and support the work of St Vincent de Paul by collecting food for the creation of Christmas Hampers in our local area. 

Please help us to make Christmas a special time for all, by donating nonperishable foods that families can enjoy over the Christmas season. These may include festive foods such as Christmas puddings, candy canes, salsa, chips, biscuits, chocolates and lollies…as well as foods that families can use to create a meal such as flour, sugar, pasta, rice, tins of soup, jelly, powdered custard and gravy… and long life juices and soft drinks…  

Please send in all donations by Friday 6 December, as we will be presenting items donated to St Vincent de Paul at our morning assembly on Friday 6 December, so that Vinnies have a chance to package and deliver them before Christmas. 

Christ the King

This Sunday 24 November we celebrate Christ the King. This is the last Sunday of the current Liturgical Year and the following Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent and the start of the new liturgical year. The liturgical year celebrates the story of Jesus beginning with the preparations for his birth.

First Sunday of Advent

Sunday 1 December is the First Sunday of Advent and the start of the new liturgical year. On the First Sunday of Advent we light the first candle on the Advent Wreath, a purple candle which we call The Prophets’ Candle. When we light the Prophets’ Candle we remember all of the special people who prepared for the coming of the saviour. Pictured here are Erica and Max with the Advent Wreaths they made last year in Kindergarten.

Happy Birthday Father Curran

Wishing Father Curran a very happy birthday on Wednesday 27 November, we hope you have a great day.

Congratulations Miss Myers and Mr Beaumont

Cornerstones is a Religious Education Course run by the Broken Bay Institute. Over the last 2 years Miss Myers and Mr Beaumont have been completing this course and are graduating on Wednesday 27 November. They found the course to be very informative and beneficial and have enjoyed sharing their new learnings and understandings with their classes. Congratulations Miss Myers and Mr Beaumont on your great achievement.

Connecting With Our Parish

Weekend Mass Times

We encourage all of our families to celebrate Sunday Mass with our parish.

Manilla Parish Mass Times

1st Sunday of the month - Sunday 8.30am

2nd, 3rd & 4th Sunday of the month - Saturday 5.30pm

Attunga Mass Times

2nd, 4th & 5th Sunday of the month - Sunday 12 noon

Opening of the Cathedral

Thursday 12 December is the 105th anniversary  of the dedication of the Ss Mary and Joseph Cathedral in Armidale. Mass will be celebrated at 11.00am to mark this anniversary and also the ‘Soft Opening’ of the cathedral, following the completion of the extensive repairs to the Cathedral that were needed as a result of a destructive hailstorm. Representatives from St Michael’s School will be attending this celebration. Please note the official re-opening of the cathedral will be on Sunday 29 December with Mass at 10am. Everyone welcome.

Living Well, Learning Well - Pastoral Care and Wellbeing 

Legends of the Light Shine 

Our new Legends of the Light Shine focus for Weeks 7 and 8 of Term 4 is “Kindness”. Our kindness theme compliments our Lightshine7 focus where in Week 7 of each term we focus on acts of kindness and service, responding to Jesus’ call to all of us to live lives of love and service. As we start to focus on presents at this time of year, may we also focus on our presence as a present to others of kindness as we love and serve one another.

The Platy-Project

The Australian Conservation Foundation is encouraging communities to get involved with The Platy Project. The platy-project encourages community members to log online when and where they have spotted platypus in an effort to understand the platypus more and prevent further declines in their numbers. 

At St Michael’s we are very passionate about caring for the environment and all of the people, animals and plants and we encourage everyone who has spotted platypus recently to go to the The Platy Project website and record these sightings, as we work together to look after this very cute and uniquely Australian animal.

SchoolTV

SchoolTV, a resource for supporting the parenting of young people is available on our school website and contains many useful resources.

Real Talk’s Parent Membership Site

Real Talk have sent the following communication for staff and families.

You (and your community) can gain access here https://realtalkparents.com/armidale. Valued at $49 it is FREE this year for your staff and families as part of our working relationship with Real Talk. Real Talk Parents Membership Site is a quality resource bank in the area's of eSafety, relationships and sex education. I'm sure many in your community will be helped and supported by accessing this resource in fostering Catholic values, resilience, and relationship success. So please encourage your parents and caregivers to take advantage of this Parent's Membership Site - because parenting doesn't come with an instruction manual!

“Let Your Light Shine” support others to let their light shine and remember “We Shine Brighter Together”

Jacquelene Cronin

Assistant Principal - Mission