Liturgy

Community Mass

Next Friday is the final Community Mass for this year and it will be prepared by students in Year 8. All are welcome to this Eucharist in the season of Advent. After Mass there is coffee in the Circle of Friends Café.

Community Mass details

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

Sacrament Program

Parents with students in Years 2, 3 and 5

Parishes are now planning for celebrations of the sacraments in 2022. Parents are encouraged to enrol their child in their ‘home’ parish once enrolments open.

Enrolment information and contact details may be found here for the parishes of Cottesloe/Mosman Park, City Beach and Subiaco.

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 08 9383 0513

Advent and Christmas

Advent and Christmas is a season in many families choose to participate in parish liturgies and events. As a way of preparing for Christmas, the Parish of Saint Thomas Apostle Claremont is presenting their annual ‘Road to Bethlehem’, a celebration of song scripture and reflection.

Good News for the First Sunday of Advent

'Your redemption is near at hand' - Luke 21: 25-28, 34-36

The reflection for this Sunday’s Gospel is part of a longer homily by Jesuit priest, Fr Richard Leonard. Fr Richard Leonard SJ is the Director of the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting, is a member of the Australian Catholic Media Council and is author of Preaching to the Converted, Paulist Press, New York, 2006.

… In every generation we have had people tell us that the sun, moon, stars, wars, famine, tidal waves and earthquakes, mentioned in today's Gospel, all demonstrate that Jesus is about to return. Clearly, we are still waiting. If only the Christians who give out these dire predictions, every so often, would take as seriously Jesus' words, 'You will know not the time, nor the place when the Son of Man will return in glory'.

Luke's community thought that Jesus would return quickly and spectacularly. They were surprised that the first generation of Christian believers was dying without seeing it all happen. Given the terrible suffering they were enduring for Jesus, the early Christians no doubt hoped that the end of the world would be soon and would demonstrate to everyone that they were not foolish to cling to Christ in the face of all opposition and persecution. The early Christians knew that there was no point professing faith in Jesus Christ unless one’s daily behaviour reflects his kingdom. It has been a telling point ever since. If every Christian lived out the Gospel in his or her daily life, the world would be transformed and Christ would come in spectacular fashion.

I haven't got a clue when the world will cease to exist, but [as we begin a new cycle] of the Church's Year, I know that the Lord returns to us every time we love, forgive, share, are compassionate, are generous and sacrificial toward one another. It may not be as grand as dancing suns and tidal waves, but the heroic love of a parent for a child, a spouse for their sick partner and the first world sharing with the third world are spectacular enough for me to believe that Jesus' kingdom comes every day, in every hour, at every moment.

May our celebration of the Eucharist be a taste for us of the Kingdom of God that is both present amongst us and still to come. And may the Advent season sustain us in our waiting and give us courage in our living.