Religious Education News

From the writings of  Mary MacKillop 

Remember, God is merciful and wants you 

to trust in His mercy.

 Mary McKillop, 1876

Weekly Parish Bulletin

Corpus Christi, YEAR C

Marriage and Family Week

Our diocese celebrates Marriage and Family Week each year in July. The theme for 2022 is “Family love: A vocation and a path to holiness” which is also the theme for the World Meeting of Families that will be held in Rome from June 22nd to 26th.

The children will be taught lessons this week that explore their life experiences and God’s faithfulness to His people. We are all called to be holy by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we do, wherever we find ourselves.  God is with us always and with our families in the daily routine of everyday life. (CSO Mission Team Armidale Diocese).

The Church holds up the Holy Family (Jesus, Mary and Joseph) the model image of a “family” to guide us in our lives.  We and the Church are very well aware that this is not the situation in which many people in our community are in and in today's context families take on many forms with the “extended” family now becoming more of a part of our immediate family. 

Corpus Christi

(The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ)

The solemnity of Corpus Christi was celebrated last weekend. 

The feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, known as Corpus Christi, celebrates and commemorates the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. 

Although the liturgy on Holy Thursday remembers the celebration

of the Last Supper, its focus tends to be more aligned with the events of the Passion rather than on the institution of the Eucharist. In the 13th Century, Pope Urban IV established the feast of Corpus Christi (the Body of Christ) and it was St Thomas Aquinas who composed the official prayers of the Church for the feast day. 

In 1970, the feast was changed to the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. In some

countries, it is celebrated on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday and in others on the following Sunday. 

(Greg Sunter : Liturgy Help online) 

Mini Vinnies - Winter Appeal

St Joseph’s Mini Vinnies are supporting the Annual Vinnies Winter Appeal. We ask for donations of clothes and blankets. 

On Thursday the 30th of June, the students can come to school wearing items of clothes to donate and hand these over to our Vinnies ladies. 

Bags of items can be dropped off any time between now and June 30th.

God bless.

Joe Dimech

Religious Education Co-ordinator