Marist College Ashgrove Newsletter

Mission News

Mr Luke McMahon

Lenten Appeal Free Dress and Fundraising Day – Friday 12 March

Marist College Parents please note that as a College we commit to assisting our Marist brothers and sisters who share our Marist heritage but not our privileged way of life. Australian Marist Solidarity runs programs in Marist communities in the Asia-Pacific region. 

 

Our aim is for each Marist Ashgrove student to commit $20 to the Lenten collection over the weeks of Lent as a way of supporting these communities. 

 

Lenten fundraising initiatives include:

 

Free Dress and Fundraising Day – Friday 12 March

Wear free-dress and donate a $2 coin or $Fiver during morning Pastoral Group time (cash only).

 

Support the food stalls and activities during Break 1 (Monitor and cash payments.

Please ensure that your son’s monitor card is topped up for Friday.

  • Sausage sizzle $3 (with onion OR bacon $4/ with onion AND bacon $5)
  • Soft drinks $3
  • Fairy floss $6
  • Snow cones $3
  • Lolly bags $2
  • Games $1 and $2

Easter egg raffle (Primary school)

House collections

Year 7 and 8 dance - Friday 19 March (organised by Rush House)

 

 

If you would like to donate directly on behalf of your son and family please click here or go to the MCA monitor link - http://bit.ly/MCAlenten 

 

 

 

 

 

Through the generous and compassionate concern of all those associated with our College community, we can make a real difference in the lives of those who need our support.

Reflection

Lord, send me forth this day to bring your Good News.

Send me out with eyes open wide to see the loveliness of your creation, the sight of your face. Send me in peace and joy that I might be an instrument of your liberating love, your joyful presence, and your redeeming compassion. Grant that I may bring your presence to a waiting world.  Amen

International Women’s Day 2021

As we celebrate International Women's Day, we join in praise of valiant women throughout history and present everywhere today.  May we look around us and within us and take heart that we are "wonderfully made"...indeed, in the image of God!

 

Who shall find a valiant woman?
Look! We are all around you:
in the work rooms of industry, 
and of every functioning enterprise,
unheralded, invisible,
some say non-existent,
but we know otherwise.
 
Who shall find a valiant woman?
Look! We are all around you:
contributing, setting standards, 
changing the course of history, 
preparing, supporting,
challenging those resentful of our collegial claims and capabilities.
 
Who shall find a valiant woman?
Look! We are all around you:
Woman of courage, compassionate, patient.
Our number is legion, our gifts diverse, 
our goal one and the same:
that history hear, that history is cognizant of, 
that history will one day recall our names.
 
We honour the women of the Hebrew scriptures,
especially Mary, the Mother of Jesus,
whose courage, persistence, love, and fidelity
kept the lineage of faith alive.
 
We honour the women of Jesus' time
Who cared for the community of believers;
Who followed Jesus to Calvary;
Who buried Him;
Who proclaimed Jesus' resurrection
Who passed the Gospel to their families, friends and strangers;
 
We honour the valiant women of our own time
Who nudge us back on track;
Who remind us of the promises of Christ;
Who claim the Gospel for women, too;
Who preach the reality of wholeness;
Who strain against a patriarchal church
Who challenge us to grow!
 
Living God, today we gather in and among your presence.
Valiant women throughout the world,
and all gathered here, raise our voices in global petition
for your promise of wholeness --fullness of life--
to be realized in all our world, in our nations and in our lives. 
This we pray in your name. AMEN.

 

Adaptation of Miriam Therese Winter's "Valiant Women"

by Cathy O'Keefe

Catholic Education – celebrating 200 years

2021 marks the Bicentenary of Catholic Education in Australia. In the newsletter on 23 February, we included a link to the Pastoral Letter from the Australian bishops to launch the celebrations. Included in this week’s newsletter is a video acknowledging and celebrating 200 years of catholic education in Australia. It is an interesting survey of the history of Catholic education which began in Parramatta in 1820 together with many examples of the depth and breadth of Catholic Education in Australia. Click on the link below to view the video:

 

https://200years.catholic.edu.au/

Chaplain’s Corner

Jesus always pushes us to increase our capacity to love. Most of us are comfortable to love family and friends, but the thought of having to pray for and do good to those who have hurt us is more difficult to accept. Yet this is what Jesus asks of us. Jesus tells us that there is no virtue in loving those we find easy to love. The virtue is in loving those who have in some way offended us. Of course, Jesus does not intend that we put ourselves in harm’s way. Rather, he is asking us to let go of hate and allow love to dwell in our hearts. This is not an easy task, and only possible when we are strongly connected to God’s love. 

 

Lord, you know how I have been hurt by certain people. I find it hard to love them. I pray for this person ………Please change my heart towards him/her.
 
Mary, our Good Mother, pray for us.
St. Marcellin Champagnat, pray for us.
St. Mary of the Cross, pray for us.
And may we always remember to pray for one another.

Community Prayers

We pray for all in our community who are unwell and are suffering at this time. 

 

We remember in our prayers 

  • Mr Michael Druce (staff member)
  • Jack Horwood (Old Boy)

We pray for the repose of the soul of the following from our Marist family. 

  • Ethan Stevens
  • Paul Girling

May our loving God, with Mary and Champagnat, walk with all members of the Marist family. Amen.

Marist Youth Ministry Connect Night 

On Friday 5 March Marist Youth Ministry hosted a school based ‘Connect’ night drawing together Year 11 and 12 students from Marist Schools in the Brisbane region. The young men of Ashgrove enjoyed the evening of prayer, game and pizza. Our thanks to Marist Youth Ministry for making these nights available for our students. 

Mass and Reconciliation

Community Mass - Wednesday 8:00 am

Reconciliation - Tuesday 8:00 am 

Students and staff are welcome to Mass on Wednesday morning at 8:00 am in the College Chapel. Fr Tini is also available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation every Tuesday morning at 8:00 am. This Wednesday 10 March we invite all members of Ignatius House to attend 8:00 am Mass.