Liturgy

Community Liturgy

Next week, our Community Liturgy will be prepared by students in Year 12. 

 

Community Mass is open to everyone – and new families to the school are especially welcome.  It is a joyful and ‘user-friendly’ celebration. Mass commences at 8:00am, and finishes at 8:30am, in time for Homeroom.

 

Community Liturgy summary

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

SACRAMENT PROGRAM 2020

Do you have a child currently in Year 3, 4 or 6? The children will be preparing, in their Religion classes, for the sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist and Confirmation. While the students will learn the appropriate content in their Religion classes, they celebrate the sacraments with their family in their parishes. 

 

Parents are encouraged to enrol their child, as soon as possible, in their parish – usually, but not necessarily the parish closest to home.  Please check the enrolment dates and procedures for some of our local parishes on our website

 

If you have any further queries please contact Mary-Anne Lumley: mary-anne.lumley@cew.edu.au

 

Updates from local parishes

Holy Spirit, City Beach

Information about the Sacraments: an evening for parents

Reminder for enrolled children: Commitment Masses this weekend.

Information: delattrecn@yahoo.fr or phone Parish Priest, Fr Emmanual-tv Dimobi, 93413131.

 

Saint Thomas Apostle, Claremont

Sacrament enrolments close: Friday 14 March

Registration forms are available from silvia.kinder@cewa.edu.au

 

Star of the Sea, Cottesloe

Enrolments for program being finalised.

Further information: cottesloe@perthcatholic.org.au

 

Saint Cecilia, Floreat

Further information: Rita Morgan, floreat@perthcatholic.org.au

 

St Joseph, Subiaco

Applications open soon.

Further information: sacraments@stjosephssubiaco.org.au

 

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scarborough

Contact: Fr Grant Goddard

08 9341 1124  OR   scarborough@perthcatholic.org.au

GOOD NEWS for 1st Sunday in Lent

Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 and Matthew 4:1-11

 

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

 

Hearing the story of Adam and Eve in today’s first reading reminds me of the little boy who opened the large family Bible with fascination, and looked at the old pages as he turned them. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible, and he picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that had been pressed in between the pages. ‘Mummy, look what I found’, the little boy called out. ‘What have you got there, dear?’ his mother asked. With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered: ‘I think it's Adam's suit!’

 

The Genesis story about the origins of sin in the world rewards very careful reading. The serpent promises Eve two things: that her eyes will be opened to know good from evil and that this will make her like God. Such a temptation was irresistible and nothing has changed.

 

Knowledge is a gift given us by God. I am always grateful for being a Catholic because, along with other long-standing Christian denominations, we highly value scholarship, rational thought and inquiry. As anxious as the Church has sometimes been about scientific investigations, our best traditions are to see God revealed in human thoughts and scientific achievements that ennoble our human family. It is the application of knowledge, or the way it is abused, that can be harmful.

 

On the domestic front, many families have a ‘know-it-all’, the relative who has an extraordinary ability to retain facts and figures and who seems to gain a sense of self-worth by correcting us mid-sentence when we get a number, place or fact wrong. He or she can be very irritating. On the world stage we have seen how scientific knowledge can try and seduce us into believing that all scientific achievements are good no matter how unknown the consequences of these choices might be for future generations. Every new piece of knowledge brings with it wonderful potentialities and serious responsibilities.

 

As this story demonstrates, the temptation to know as much as God has never been more real than it is right now.

 

Today’s Gospel is about knowledge too. Satan knows who Jesus is. His temptations are an attempt to get Jesus to betray his humanity and not endure the limitations of his daily life. Jesus knows that the only way to be true to his divinity is allow us to see it shine in and through his human life. The rejection of the temptation to compromise his frail human frame gives us the hope that we, too, can glimpse the power of God’s greatness in every moment we reject the desire to be directors of our own destiny and to see good triumph over evil in the choices we make.

 

It’s a relief to know we don’t have to be God!

 

May this Lent see us do what we are created for: to use all our knowledge to praise, reverence and serve the Loving One who willed us into being.

© Fr Richard Lennard SJ