Liturgy
Community Liturgy
Community Mass is a joyful gathering of students, parent, staff and friends who make up the John XXIII family. All are welcome.
Thank you to Year 10 students for their beautiful preparation of today’s liturgy. Next Friday, our Community Mass will be prepared by students who are involved in this year Pilgrimage program.
Community Liturgy summary
- Where: College Chapel
- Time: 8:00am – 8:30am
- When: every Friday in term time
Sacrament Program
CONGRATULATIONS
Several students, together with their families, will be celebrating the sacraments in their parishes this year. As a regional school, we are enriched by students and families participating in a number of parishes. Let us keep all these students and their families in our hearts and in our prayer at this special time.
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: Feast of the Trinity
“Whatever the Father has is mine. The Spirit will receive what I give and tell you about it.” – John 15:12-15
The reflection for this Sunday’s Gospel is a from 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 names Christians give to God – Father, Son and Spirit – are both ancient and important. But we should never think they exhaust the possibilities of God's reality. Creator, mother, lover, redeemer, Saviour, higher power or friend all go some way to help us put words around our experience of our God, who is more and beyond all names we can possibly use.
The naming of God, however, is an important, but secondary focus to the feast of the Trinity. There are two other facets to it that are more central.
The first is that the Trinity declares that relationships are at the very centre of God. We believe that the Father, Son and Spirit are in full communion, communication and relationship with each other at all times, in all places. To know Jesus is to know the Father and the Spirit and vice versa. They are one. This special relationship also indicates to us that nothing should matter more in our lives than our relationships with one another. To be like the God we profess every Sunday is to commit ourselves to our relationships, in all their varieties. To work hard on our relationships is, for a Christian, to touch the divine.
The second extraordinary thing we celebrate today is that the Father invites us into this loving relationship with Him, Jesus and the Spirit. What is especially consoling about this is that we are the only world religion that believes our God took our flesh. So through Jesus' life, teaching, compassion and sacrificial love we not only discover who he is, but, at one and the same time, we find out what God and the Spirit are like.
Some people think themselves unworthy of such invitation. Others argue they have to be a better person to deserve such an offer. While both of these responses to God's invitation are understandable, they fail to take into account that in Jesus we have been made worthy of God's love and if we are waiting to get to a certain level of goodness to deserve God's love, we will wait forever.
God invites us into the compassionate embrace of the Trinity where we are and as we are, so that we can become all that God knows we can be. We don't have to get good to get God. We have to get God before we can get good.
This Trinity Sunday let's celebrate the intimacy and dignity to which we are called by signing ourselves with the focus of our love – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
© Richard Leonard