St Pius X College Newsletter

Mission and Identity

  • Parish Youth Mass
  • Chapel Mass
  • Kenya and Uganda Immersion Update
  • Social Justice Programs

Parish Youth Mass

Last Sunday the new Student Leadership Team was presented to the Parish at the 5:30 pm Mass.  It was a typically joyful occasion as our student leaders and those from Mercy College led the liturgy and enjoyed a celebratory pizza meal after Mass.

Chapel Mass

Tuesday morning’s Mass was celebrated at Mercy College with a number of our new senior student leaders in attendance, in particular our new Mission and Identity Prefects, Matthew Dixon, Dominic D’Souza and Ethan Rahme, alongside a handful of Year 9 students who also attended the liturgy.

Kenya and Uganda Immersion update

Staff members, Ryan Balboa and Daniel Petrie, are currently participating in an EREA-led Kenya and Uganda immersion.  The immersion focuses on the Ruben Centre in Nairobi  as well as schools in Uganda which are part of an Edmund Rice Project. The works in Kenya are dedicated to the people of the Mukuru slums that are home to 700,000 people living in poverty. The primary school as part of this project has nearly 3,000 students. The Ruben Centre offers a birthing clinic that delivers more babies annually than the Brisbane Mater Hospital, a vocational secondary school to provide job-ready training, a health clinic and sustainable crops.

Social Justice Programs

Thank you to staff and students who support our weekly visits to the Matthew Talbot Hostel in Woolloomooloo as well as St Peter’s Catholic Care in Lane Cove.  Matthew Talbot Hostel is a well-known shelter and support service provider for homeless men, operating here in Sydney since 1938, founded by the St Vincent de Paul Society. The hostel helps men over the age of 21 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Our students support the shelter by providing the guests their meals when they visit on a weekly basis.  Our weekly visits to St Peter’s Catholic Residential provides a wonderful opportunity for our students to connect with residents in a local aged care facility and provide for them some much-needed company and conversation.

 

Mr Sam Di Sano - Leader of Learning, Religious Education