R.E. News
Religious Education News - Week 10 Term 2
Confirmation
- Tuesday 11th August- Confirmation Reflection Day
- Thursday 13th August- Confirmation Reconciliation service - 11:40am
- Saturday 15th August- Sacrament of Confirmation – 1pm and 3pm
Eucharist
- Wednesday 22nd July - First Eucharist Parent/Child Information Night at 6pm
- Saturday 8th August – First Eucharist Commitment Mass – 5pm
- Thursday 22nd October - Reconciliation at 11:40am
- Friday 23rd October - Eucharist Reflection Day
- Saturday 24th October - Sacrament of First Eucharist mass at 5pm
- Sunday 25th October - Sacrament of First Eucharist mass at 9:30am
Whole School Mass/Events
- Friday 26th June - Naidoc Week assembly (1pm)
- Friday 14th August - Feast of the Assumption Mass at 9am
- Friday 6th November - St Francis Blessing of the animals service from 9am to 9:15am
- Tuesday 11th November - Remembrance Day service at 10:55am
- Thursday 10th December - Year 6 Graduation at 6pm
- Monday 15th December - End of School Mass at 9am - TBC
Junior Information Nights
- Year 1/2 Good Shepherd Night – Tuesday 11th August (6pm)
Children’s Liturgy
Children's Liturgy at St Mark's Church is up running this term. It will be starting this weekend.
The Children's Liturgy provides a great opportunity for primary aged children to engage with the gospel in a way that is accessible and meaningful to them. It runs every Sunday at the St Mark's 9:30am mass during school terms. At the start of mass the Children’s Liturgy adult leaders take the primary school age children into the hall for a small lesson and activity about the gospel of the day. Parents are welcome to join the session if they would like. If any parents are interested in volunteering to help with the Sunday sessions, please email Andrew Davies - andrew@smdingley.catholic.edu.au
Today we are faced with the cost of discipleship, but we are also comforted by the promise of the providence of God. Baptism is for us both death and life. Through it we enter into Christ’s death and we die to lives of selfishness and sin. Through it we rise with Christ to a new life freed from everything that previously held us down. As glorious as this new life might be, it requires death to our old ways of living, and this is always difficult.
The cost of discipleship cuts right to the core of our beings, it lays bare the very structures of kinship. Baptism recreates us as children of God; through it we are given a new life and born into a new family. The bonds of discipleship are now even stronger than the bonds of blood. Discipleship requires our very lives. As disciples we can no longer put ourselves first. We must be willing to spend ourselves and to be spent, to serve others in the day to day unfolding of life. We may find such commitment very demanding, but that is part of the cost of discipleship. God promises that if we lose our lives in this way, we will really gain them. If we are unselfish in the way we share ourselves with others, we will be enriched through our generosity. If we spend ourselves and are spent in our service of others we will be filled with blessings unimaginable.
