Liturgy

Community Mass

All are welcome in the Chapel on Friday mornings at 8:00am for the College Community Mass. Next Friday, the liturgy will be prepared by students in Year 12.

After Mass finishes, around 8:30am, the celebration continues with coffee in the Circle of Friends Café.

Even if you have never been to a Community Mass or stayed for coffee afterwards, you are most welcome!

Community Mass details

College Chapel
Fridays in term time
Starts: 8:00am and concludes 8:30am

SACRAMENT PROGRAM

Updates for some of our local parishes

Saint Thomas Apostle, Claremont

Confirmation Friday 27 August

Reconciliation October

Please note that, due to current COVID restrictions on maximum capacity, priority for enrolment will go to families who are in the parish of Saint Thomas Apostle. Please see http://www.johnxxiii.edu.au/view/parent-resources/parish-sacraments

Enrolment forms are available from silvia.kinder@iona.wa.edu.au

St Mary Star of the Sea, Cottesloe/Corpus Christi, Mosman Park

Confirmation Sunday 7 November

Information Day: 5 August, 4-5pm Parish Centre

Enrolment information and contact details for the Sacrament Coordinator may be found here.

If you would like further information about the Sacrament Program:

If your nearest parish is not listed, search the Archdiocesan website;
Check the information available on the College website here
Contact Mary-Anne Lumley mary-anne.lumley@cew.edu.au OR phone 9383 0408

GOOD NEWS for 6th Sunday of Easter

John 15:9-17

The Gospel - John 15:9-17

Jesus said:

This is my commandment,

that you love one another as I have loved you.

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

I do not call you servants any longer,

because the servant does not know what the master is doing;

but I have called you friends,

because I have made known to you

everything that I have heard from my Father.

You did not choose me but I chose you.

And I appointed you to go and bear fruit,

fruit that will last,

so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.

I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

Reflection - The Best Love

Jesus set the ultimate standard for love: putting your life on the line for your friends. Most of us don’t go anywhere near that far; no one shows signs of the “best love” that Jesus models. Yet Jesus calls us his friends anyway.

Even though he’s a better friend to us than we’ll ever be in return to him. Jesus takes our imperfect love and breaks it, blesses it, and passes it around like Eucharist to a hungry world. Jesus multiplies our little fragments of love and makes them sufficient.

Our love may not be perfect, but that’s no excuse to withhold what we’ve got. Jesus will make it what it needs to be. Our task is to offer it.