Religious Education and Life at St Anne's and in the Parish of OLMC.

PRAYER, SCHOOL MASSES AND CELEBRATIONS:

Last week, we gathered for a special Beginning of Year Prayer Service. The School Captains and House Captains received their badges, and both the Staff and the Year 6 Captains were commissioned to service by Father Kevin. Father Kevin gave a special blessing to the St Anne’s School Community. 

Every Monday Morning we come together as a school community to share prayer. Each week a class leads the whole school in our prayer via a Google Meet. The prayer is recorded and sent home to that year levels’ families so that they are too able to share in prayer. Special thank-you to Year 6 Maroon for leading us in prayer and we look forward to the Year 5 Maroon and Year 4 Maroon classes who will lead us in prayer in the coming weeks. 

We begin the season of Lent with Ash Wednesday on 2nd March. Although we will be unable to gather in the Church, the Year 3 to Year 6 students will gather outside for a special prayer service with Father Kevin at 10am. The Year 1 &Year 2 students will, will also gather later that day to mark Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten season

SACRAMENTS AND THE SACRAMENTAL PROGRAM:

Information and dates regarding the Sacramental Preparation Program for Eucharist, Reconciliation and Confirmation went home with the students at the beginning of the term. Year 4, 5 and 6 teachers posted a copy of these dates on Seesaw also.

This year the Sacraments will be celebrated:

Sacrament of First Eucharist

24th, 30th & 31st July at St. Anne’s Church

Sacrament of First Reconciliation

Thursday 20th October, 5pm & 7pm at St. Anne’s Church

Sacrament of Confirmation

Sunday 9th October, 2pm at St. Patrick's Cathedral

The Sacrament of Confirmation for last year’s Year 6 students is to take place at Salesian Stadium on Friday 4th March, 7pm. Further information about this event will be sent out to those families of last year’s Year 6 students via the parish. 

FAMILY FAITH EVENINGS AND FAMILY MASSES:

We are hoping that we will be able to continue with our Family Faith Evenings and Family Masses this year, which have been on hold due to the pandemic. We hope that we will be able to begin our Family Faith Evenings with the Prep Families on Tuesday 22nd March, 6:00pm at school followed by the Prep Family Mass on Sunday 27th March 10:30am at St Anne’s Church. We hope to continue with our other year levels in the following terms. We will keep you updated!

ANNIVERSARY OF THE APOLOGY TO AUSTRALIA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Saturday 13th February, marks the 14th anniversary of the apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2008.