Community Liturgy

Thank you to the Year 11 students who prepared our Mass this morning.

Students in Campion House will be preparing the liturgy for our College community next Friday, 29 March, which is also Live Simply Day. Students participating in Live Simply Day are especially encouraged to attend Mass to begin their day.

New families are welcome to Community Liturgy! If you have not previously attended Mass or are not Catholic, just come to the Chapel at 8:00am. There are no reserved seats or special places and all the responses are on a PowerPoint.

Community Liturgy summary

Where: College Chapel
Time: 8:00 – 8:30 am
When: every Friday in term time

Sacrament Program

FAQS

What happens in the Sacrament Program?

Children in Years 3, 4 and 6 prepare to celebrate, respectively, the sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist and Confirmation in their own ‘home’ parish.

How are the children prepared?

The Religion curriculum in Catholic schools includes a unit of work on the sacrament in the relevant year level. Once the students have completed the unit of work they are awarded a certificate, which is required by the Parish.

Some parishes provide additional classes for students attending Catholic schools.

Last, but not least, parents are the children’s first teachers in Faith. The program in the Perth Archdiocese is ‘family-focused, parish-based and Catholic school supported.’

When will the sacraments be celebrated?

Each parish is different; refer to your local parish for dates and times. Some information from local parishes is provided below – and you can find more detail on the College website.

Why are there differences from parish to parish?

Each parish is a unique Faith community and the Parish Priest responds to the needs of the parish, within the context of the wider Church. No two parishes are the same – so there will be some variation in how the parish Sacrament Program is administered. As a regional College we are enriched by families from a diversity of parishes.

If I have a child in Year 3, 4 or 6, when should I enroll in my parish program?

Parents are reminded to enroll their children in parish Sacrament programs as soon as possible

Parish updates from Local Parishes

A brief summary of dates are provided below. For more detail, please check the College website or approach the Parish Priest or parish sacrament coordinator directly.

CITY BEACH: Holy Spirit

For families already enrolled in the program, the schedule is on the College website.

Further information: http://www.holyspiritcitybeach.com/

CLAREMONT: St Thomas Apostle

Celebration of the Sacrament

First Communion: Sunday 5 May 9:30am

Confirmation: Friday 9 August 6:00pm

Reconciliation: Wednesday 23 OR Thursday 24 October after school

Further information: Silvia.kinder@cewa.edu.au

COTTESLOE: St Mary Star of the Sea

Registration for all Sacraments

Further information: cottesloe@perthcatholic.org.au

Registration Form:

DOUBLEVIEW: Our Lady of the Rosary

Celebration of the Sacrament

Confirmation: Saturday 8 June at 6:00pm Mass

First Communion: Saturday 21 September at 6:00pm

Sunday 22 September at 10:00am

Reconciliation: Saturday 26 October at 5:00pm

Further information: doubleview@perthcatholic.org.au

FLOREAT/WEMBLEY: St Cecilia’s/Our Lady of Victories

Upcoming dates: Thank you to those families who have completed the enrolment process. For those who have yet to do so, please provide us with your nominated dates with regards to workshops, reconciliation, rehearsals, etc. Email the Parish Office. Further info: http://www.floreatwembleyparish.org.au/resources/Floreat-Wembley-Parish-Sacramental-INFORMATION-PACK-2019.pdf.

NEDLANDS: Holy Rosary

Celebration of the Sacrament

Reconciliation: Term 2 – date to be finalised

First Communion: Sunday 16 June 2019, 8:45am Mass

Confirmation: Saturday 3 August 2019, 6:00pm Mass

Further information: Nedlands@perthcatholic.org.au

SHENTON PARK: St Aloysius

Registration form

Available from parish website:

Celebration of the Sacrament

Reconciliation: Saturday 30 March, 2:00pm

First Communion: Sunday 30 June 2019, 9:30am Mass

Confirmation: Sunday 22 September 2019, 9:30am Mass

Further information: http://shentonparkcatholics.org.au/parish-life/sacramental-program/

Contact: John Edwards 0438 527 050

SUBIACO: St Joseph’s

Expression of interest for all Sacraments

Contact: Bart Welten

sacraments@stjosephssubiaco.org.au

If you have any other questions about the Sacrament Program:

Contact your Parish Priest or Sacrament Coordinator.
Contact Mary-Anne Lumley, Parish Liaison Mary-Anne.Lumley@cewa.edu.au or 9383 0513.
College website
Information for all parishes may be found on the archdiocesan website http://www.perthcatholic.org.au/Parishes_and_Mass_Times.htm?cms%2Erm=List

GOOD NEWS for the 3rd Sunday in Lent

Luke 13:1-9

The reflection for this Sunday’s Gospel is part of a 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.

The third Sunday of Lent is all about second chances. In Exodus we have a bush that is alight but does not burn and in Luke we have a fig tree that does not bear fruit, is earmarked for the chop and saved by the gardener. In both cases where we would expect to find destruction we find new opportunities for growth, nurturance and flowering.

Over the centuries the goodness of God that always gives us another chance has not been proclaimed as vigorously as it should have been. We have focused on God's justice as though it was a once and for all, shape up or ship out sort of message. These ideas can be deduced from today's second reading where Paul seems to argue that God killed the chosen people for their complaining and infidelity.

Paul was a tough man and for him Christian commitment was no picnic. He was aware of how people were suffering and dying for the Gospel, so he was at pains to teach the people of Corinth that the commitment demanded from the Gospel could entail everything they had. His reading of why the Israelites died in the desert, however, needs to be read against the second chances of the other readings, especially the Gospel.

We believe in Lent that we enter a holy time in our year and visit a holy place in ourselves where the fire of God's love should burn brightly within us. We are offered these weeks to re-examine our values, family history, commitment, fidelity and growth so as to chart how best we can grow old with God. To do this sometimes requires facing up to our sinful behaviour and making choices to change our lives. We can only do this when we trust that the fire of God's love is not about destruction, but compassion, forgiveness and a second chance.

May [we] assess with honesty the fruitfulness of how, as a sign of Christ's light within us, we live out our faith in our home, at work and in the world.

© Richard Leonard SJ

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