Catholic Identity 

School Feast Day

On Friday of week 8 this term, 1st September, we will be celebrating our school feast day. But why do we celebrate a school feast day?

In the simplest of ways, a Catholic feast day is any day when we remember and celebrate something or someone important to our faith. The word feast comes from the Latin festes, meaning ‘joy’ and symbolises a time of celebration. The Church has a year of feast days in this sense, partnered together with holy days of obligation, saints’ days and days devoted to expressions of God’s love in the lives of Jesus and his mother, Mary.

We will be celebrating with a Whole School Mass on the 1st of September at 10am in the OLSC Sports Centre. It would be wonderful to see as many family members and community members at Mass to celebrate all of the wonderful blessings we received from God through our school community. 

1/2 Sacramental Family Evening

On Wednesday evening of this week, many families from our 1/2 community came together for our 1/2 Sacramental Evening -  an evening of prayer, story and reflection. This evening further built on the 'Preps in Pyjamas' evening and was part of the broader sacramental development of our students. Together with their families, students decorated picture frames and wrote prayers or drew meaningful pictures to add to these. 

First Reconciliation 2024 Intentions

In preparation for 2024, we are inviting parents/guardians to indicate that they would like their child to celebrate the Sacrament of First Eucharist in 2024. If you child will be in Year 3 in 2024 and you intend for them to celebrate the sacrament, please complete the Google Form embedded below. 

2023 Sacramental Program

Confirmation

Last Friday evening, 11th August, our Confirmation candidates celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation with Bishop Martin Ashe, Fr. Anton and members of their families and our school community. 

The school choir also joined us to help lead the singing. Thank you to all of the choir members who came, as well as Tina D and Marilyn for preparing them, as well as Janeen, Beth and Bianca who helped out on the night. Former students Rivini and Asini, and current student Natasha, served Mass, enhancing the reverence of the celebration. We thank them for this. 

Thank you to the Year 5/6 team for preparing these students for this important 'milestone' sacrament. 

Congratulations to all of our newly Confirmed! May they continue to 'grow in the heart of God's love'!

Marian Grotto and Reflective Garden

Calling for helpers!!

We are planning on building a Marian grotto and reflective garden on the ground of OLSC, to honour Mary, the patron of our school and to provide a special place for students, teachers and our community to gather in prayer and reflection. The above image is indicative of a design we would like to pursue. 

We are calling on any adults in our school community that may have experience in designing, building, concreting, stonework etc. to assist in this project (which is still int he very early developmental phase).

If you have any expertise in a field/trade that would be relevant for this project, we would love to hear from you. Please contact me at: jdini@olscwyn.catholic.edu.au

School Masses 

Here are the dates and times of remaining Masses for 2023:

All Masses will be celebrated in the Sports Centre. Parents and families are invited to these celebrations and we hope to see as many of you as possible attend!

Term 3, Week 8: Feast Day Whole School Mass, Friday 1st September at 10am

Term 4, Week 4: Prep & 5/6 Mass, Friday 27th October at 2pm

Term 4, Week 7: Whole School Mass, Friday 17th November at 2pm

John Dini

Catholic Identity Leader