Religious Education
Mrs Wendy Rheinberger - REC
Weekend Mass Times
Saturday 5pm (Quirindi) 6:30pm (Werris Creek)
Sunday 8am (Willow Tree) 9:30am (Quirindi)
End of Term Whole School Mass
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
St Joseph's Winter Warmer Drive Update
With our school holidays almost upon us, now is the time to have a dig through your wardrobes for any good quality, new and used blankets, beanies, scarves, socks and gloves! We will continue the "Drive" until the first Friday back next term (Friday 22nd July) when our School and Youth Engagement Office, Mrs Croft, will be visiting our school to speak with the students.
Save the Dates!
NAIDOC Week 2022
Each year NAIDOC Week (3-10 July 2022) encourages Indigenous Australians to continue to press for their right to participate in society as equal members. It also calls on other Australians to respect them and to join them in celebrating their culture and aspirations. This commits us to listen to their voice.
Each year the theme of NAIDOC Week reflects current events and moods. Last year the theme was Heal Country, which echoed both the growing awareness in the wider Australian society of the importance of respect for the natural environment and the specific outrage at the destruction of the Juukan Caves in Western Australia. This year the theme is Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! Its tone is urgent and impatient, expressing frustration at the resistance to change but also the recognition that new possibilities are within reach. (From: Australian Catholics Education Hub)
Due to the Industrial Action Strike this Thursday, we have postponed our Acknowledgement of Country, Liturgy and Creative Workshop rotations until: Thursday 21st July 2022 (Week 1, Term 3).
Feast of Sts Joachim and Anne (Jesus' Grandparents)
Tuesday 26th July, 2022
The St Joseph's School community will be attending Mass on this special day.
End of Term Prayer
We thank you Lord, for this term.
For the challenges, the successes, and the mistakes from which we have learnt.
Be with us as we spend our time with family and friends.
Give us strength and courage to do what is right: to be witnesses of our faith.
Help us to be a practical Christian these holidays, to appreciate what others do for us, to give time and effort to help others.
To be peacemakers in our family.
Keep us safe in our activities; give us good rest and good fun.
Bring us back refreshed and ready for a new term.
We thank you for our classmates, teachers, parents and a community that cares for us. May we always be conscious of you in our lives.
Amen.
God bless,
Mrs Wendy Rheinberger
Religious Education Coordinator