Liturgy

Community Mass

All are welcome in the Chapel on Friday mornings at 8:00am for the College Community Mass. Thanks to the Year 12s for their preparation today. Next Friday, the liturgy will be prepared by students in Year 10.

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 the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord

Mark 16:14-20

The Gospel – Mark 16: 14-15, 19-20.

Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating. He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation…”

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.

Reflection - What Happens Next?

“Time to go”. We all know what that means. If you come from a family like mine, it means we’re now entering into a period of goodbyes that make us loiter in the doorway for another half hour. Sooner or later, we’re going to finish that final conversation, give that last hug, say the last I-love-you, and wish the travellers a safe journey home. And then they’re gone. For a moment, there’s an almost visible space in the room shaped just like Aunt Ida and the kids. That same shaped emptiness is curiously echoed in the heart. Even the silence sounds curiously like the folks who just left.

The disciples standing around after the Ascension must have experienced something like that. A Jesus-shaped space where he stood, a Jesus-sounding silence where he’d spoken. There was a space in their hearts, too, that would always long for him to fill it. And yet the same must have been true for them as it is for us when we take leave of loved ones. Their presence remains brilliantly in their absence. They’re not there but are hardly gone for good. You can’t kill love off that easily. Love never leaves the room.

The challenge: How do we keep Jesus close even when he may seem absent? Is the Jesus-shaped place in our life big enough, profound enough, life-changing enough?