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Socktober - Sock it to Poverty with Catholic Missions

Students are about to embark on a six-week journey that will take them around the world, meeting new faces and visiting new places, all while having a lot of fun and learning about how, through mission, they can make a difference in their world. 

We start our journey this week in southern India, where some students unknowingly began what has become a yearly Socktober tradition. This week the focus is on compassion. Next week, we're travelling north, into a remote Indian state called Nagaland and will focus on respect.

How can you help? What else can we do?

In addition to learning about how we can make a difference, you may choose to help your child become an everyday hero. Follow this link to register your child and start raising much needed funds for Catholic Missions and support their work this Socktober.

Scripture Reflection: Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37)

The Parable of the Good Samaritan models a real choice we make in deciding how to live and treat those around us. In the parable the first two men, a Priest and Levite, do nothing; but a Samaritan, from a group disliked by the Jews because they didn’t observe the one true religion, stopped and showed great compassion. 

Jesus then tells the disciples to do the same, and that commandment is repeated to each one of us: go and be a neighbour to your brother or sister in difficulty or to the stranger, elderly, migrant or sick. 

Let us walk the path of the Good Samaritan.

First Holy Communion

The Sacramental programme for First Holy Communion begins in October 2020. 

The Sacrament of First Communion will be celebrated at a special 11am Mass on Sunday 15 November. All Catholic children who are in Year 3 or above, and have made the Sacrament of Reconciliation, are eligible.

Formal enrolment in the programme will be at one of the following weekend Masses:

Saturday 17 October at 6pm

Sunday 18 October at 7.30am 

Sunday 18 October at 10.30am

Please note that the 9.30am Mass will not be suitable for enrolment, due to the current limit on numbers allowed in the church.

There will be a choice of formation sessions for your child to attend:

During the 10.30am Mass on Sunday 18 October,  or

Monday 19 October, 3.30pm in the church.

There will be a choice of rehearsal sessions for your child to attend:

During the 10.30am Mass on Sunday 8 November,  or

Monday 9 November, 3.30pm in the church.

If your child misses either the formation or rehearsal session, please contact the Parish Centre as soon as possible to make alternative arrangements.