Liturgy

Community Liturgy

Thank you to the students from Year 10 who prepared the Mass this morning. Next Friday’s Mass will be prepared by students in Year 12.

Families are welcome to attend Community Mass. While adults are required to ‘socially distance’ people from the same household may sit together. Social distancing is not required for students.

Special Community Celebration

Friday 4 September, our liturgy will relocate to the St Louis Sports Centre and will begin at the earlier time of 7:30am. This is to allow our dads to join us as we pray for them and with them in the lead up to Father's Day on Sunday.

Community Mass Summary

Every Friday
8:00am – 8:30am
College Chapel
Exception: Friday 4 September 2020

SACRAMENT PROGRAM

Congratulations to students and their families!

The following students in Year 3 celebrated the sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time in the parish of St Cecilia in Floreat. Congratulations to:

Tilly Finucane

Niamh Jennings

Sophia Levey

Leila McCready

Mitchell Kavanagh

The following students in Year 4 made their first Holy Communion in the parish of St Mary Star of the Sea in Cottesloe. Congratulations to:

Thomas Pavlinovich

Olivia Rundus

Sacraments during the Phase-4 Roadmap

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe has advised that “the celebration of First Reconciliation (school-aged children) and First Holy Communion (school-aged children) may recommence.” When the Phase-5 Roadmap is adopted there will be further updates from the archdiocese. The Archbishop’s statements may be viewed here.

What does this mean for my child in Year 3 or 4?

The students have completed the required units of work in the Religion curriculum and have received certificates so they may be enrolled in parish sacrament programs.

My parish is not offering a sacrament program yet.

Each parish within the archdiocese is a unique community, responding to the pastoral needs within the parish.

I have a child in Year 6: will there be Confirmation this year?

The Archbishop has advised “Confirmation (school-aged children) remains temporarily suspended.” You are advised to enroll in your parish, pending further easing of restrictions

I need more information; where can I get it?

See below for updates provided by some of our ‘local’ parishes;
If your nearest parish is not listed, search the Archdiocesan website;
Check the information available on the College website.
Contact Mary-Anne Lumley mary-anne.lumley@cew.edu.au on 08 9383 0513.

Updates from local parishes

Updates from local parishes

SAINT THOMAS APOSTLE, CLAREMONT

First Communion Friday 4 September, 5:30pm

Reconciliation 4 and 5 November, 3:30-4:30pm

Contact: silvia.kinder@cewa.edu.au

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY, DOUBLEVIEW

First Communion Saturday 17 & 24 October, 6:00pm, Sunday 18 & 25 October, 10.00am.

Contact: Kaye Shervington, doubleview@perthcatholic.org.au

OUR LADY OF GRACE, NORTH BEACH

Reconciliation 27 October

Contact: Sheralee Allen, north.beach@perthcatholic.org.au

IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY, SCARBOROUGH

First Communion 23 August

Contact: Fr Grant Goddard, scarborough@perthcatholic.org.au 08 9341 1124

HOLY SPIRIT, CITY BEACH

Reconciliation 22 August

First Communion 29 & 30 August

Contact: delattrecn@yahoo.fr or phone Parish Priest, Fr Emmanual-tv Dimobi, 08 93413131.

ST JOSEPH, SUBIACO

The Parish of St Joseph regrets to advise that (due to their unique situation) in order to comply with both State Government and Archdiocesan Guidelines, they are unable to have the Sacramet program and Masses in 2020. They look forward to being able to publish, in due course, their enlarged program for 2021.

Contact: sacraments@stjosephssubiaco.org.au

SAINT CECILIA, FLOREAT

Contact: Rita Morgan, floreat@perthcatholic.org.au

STAR OF THE SEA, COTTESLOE

Contact: cottesloe@perthcatholic.org.au

GOOD NEWS for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Matthew 16:13-20 “Who do people say I am?”

The reflection for this Sunday’s Gospel is from Greg Sunter and is used with permission. Greg Sunter has worked in Catholic Education (Brisbane) for many years, most recently as a member of the Religious Education team and Mission and Formation team. He has extensive experience of praying with young people and forming others to lead prayer with young people.

Jesus asks the disciples who people say he is. They report that people associate Jesus with one of the great prophets of Jewish tradition. By people identifying Jesus with other great prophets they were projecting Jesus into the same mould as that prophet. What they were saying was that Jesus will be a great leader in the style of John the Baptist, or Elijah or even Jeremiah. The expectation of a messiah was running very high at the time of Jesus and everyone had their own idea about what that messiah would be like – usually aligned with some previous leader. They didn’t seem to understand that Jesus was breaking the mould and was not going to fit in with any of those expectations. To see him as one of the great prophets come again is always going to be an inadequate understanding of Jesus as messiah.

The question that Jesus asks the disciples is a question he asks of all of us. How we answer that question reflects our relationship with Jesus. But more importantly, how we answer that question reflects the way we live our life in response to who we believe Jesus to be. If we truly say that we believe in Jesus as the son of God, then how do we live our lives in such a way that we act on that belief? The gospel shows us that an inadequate answer to that question leads to missing the point of all that Jesus is.