Religious Education News

From the writings of  Mary MacKillop 

May God bless you all.

With all the love in my heart, I pray that God may do this.

 Mary MacKillop 1899

Weekly Parish Bulletin

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, YEAR C

Twilight Prayer Evening

Year 6 Religious Education Test

Congratulations to Charlie for receiving a Credit and to Winter for receiving a Distinction for the recent Year 6 Religious Education test.

Kinder to Year 2 Church Visit

Last week our K-2 class visited the church to see the statues and pictures of the Saints for our RE unit.

Feast Of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop

Mary was born in Melbourne but was best known for establishing a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australasia (Australia and New Zealand), with an emphasis on education for the rural poor. Mother Mary was canonised a Saint in 2010 and is formally known as St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. 

Mary’s motto was  “Never see a need without doing something about it”. 

Like many schools in the bush, the Sisters established St Joseph’s Warialda in 1904.  Sister Mary Ellen O’Donoghue told the congregation at the Sisters Thanksgiving Mass that three Sisters, Srs Camillus, Berchmans and a postulant, opened St Joseph’s on Monday 11th July 1904. As there are no longer Sisters present in town it is important that their legacy continues well into the future.  

Two of the three founding Sisters are buried in Warialda Cemetery.

Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

St Joseph's will be attending the parish Mass for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Monday the 15th of August. Mass will take place at 12 noon in the church.

The feast of the Assumption of Mary is a Holy day of Obligation. It is our belief that on this day Mary rose into heaven, body and soul. The celebration of this feast day will also relate to the Religion units we have been teaching in class.

God bless you and keep you safe.

Joe Dimech

Religious Education Co-ordinator