Liturgy

Community Liturgy

Students in Loreto House will be preparing the Community Liturgy next Friday at 8:00am. All are welcome. If you are new to the College or have not previously attended the Friday Liturgy, just come to the Chapel at 8:00am.  There are no reserved seats or special places and all the responses are on a PowerPoint.   

Community Liturgy summary

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

Sacrament Program - Congratulations

To the students in Year 4 who are making their First Communion in the parish of St Thomas Apostle Claremont this weekend.  Let us keep them and their families in our thoughts and prayer at this special time.

Information from Local Parishes

A brief summary of dates are provided below. For more detail, please check the College website or approach the Parish Priest or parish sacrament coordinator directly.

CITY BEACH: Holy Spirit

For families already enrolled in the program, the schedule is on the College website.

Further information: http://www.holyspiritcitybeach.com/

CLAREMONT: St Thomas Apostle

Celebration of the Sacrament

First Communion:            Sunday 5 May 9:30am

Confirmation:                    Friday 9 August 6:00pm

Reconciliation:                  Wednesday 23 OR Thursday 24 October after school

Further information:       Silvia.kinder@cewa.edu.au

COTTESLOE: St Mary Star of the Sea

Registration for all Sacraments

Further information:       cottesloe@perthcatholic.org.au

Registration Form:     

DOUBLEVIEW: Our Lady of the Rosary

Celebration of the Sacrament

Confirmation:                   Saturday 8 June at 6:00pm Mass

First Communion:           Saturday 21 September at 6:00pm

                                                Sunday 22 September at 10:00am

Reconciliation:                 Saturday 26 October at 5:00pm

Further information:       doubleview@perthcatholic.org.au

FLOREAT/WEMBLEY: St Cecilia’s/Our Lady of Victories

Upcoming dates:        Thank you to those families who have completed the enrolment process. For those who have yet to do so, please provide us with your nominated dates with regards to workshops, reconciliation, rehearsals, etc. Email the Parish Office.  Further info: http://www.floreatwembleyparish.org.au/resources/Floreat-Wembley-Parish-Sacramental-INFORMATION-PACK-2019.pdf.

NEDLANDS: Holy Rosary

Celebration of the Sacrament

Reconciliation:                  Term 2 – date to be finalised 

First Communion:            Sunday 16 June 2019,  8:45am Mass 

Confirmation:                    Saturday 3 August 2019, 6:00pm Mass 

Further information:       Nedlands@perthcatholic.org.au

SHENTON PARK: St Aloysius

Registration form

Available from parish website:

Celebration of the Sacrament

First Communion:            Sunday 30 June 2019,  9:30am Mass 

Confirmation:                    Sunday 22 September 2019, 9:30am Mass 

Further information:       http://shentonparkcatholics.org.au/parish-life/sacramental-program/

Contact: John Edwards 0438 527 050

SUBIACO: St Joseph’s

Expression of interest for all Sacraments

Contact: Bart Welten

sacraments@stjosephssubiaco.org.au

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 the Easter Season

(John 21:1-9)

(While Easter Sunday was 21 April, the season of Easter continues until Pentecost, 29 June).

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

In the Easter Gospel of this coming Sunday, Jesus returns to where his friends have fled from Jerusalem.

In a parable about the growing numbers of the early Church, the Eucharist and the suffering they are enduring, John reaffirms that Jesus is intimately present in their following of him and their suffering for the Kingdom. The only sense John can make of Jesus' death, the martyrdom of the apostles or the persecution of the early church is to see them all as acts of love. ‘No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.’

Those of us who have been caught up in the net of God's love are heirs to the same promises of Jesus’ fidelity. Christ is intimately present to us in every act of loving sacrifice we undertake for him. He continues to send us out to tell people of the place that has been prepared for them at the banquet of life and he gives us strength to gird our loins for the times when life takes us to places we would rather not go.

In our celebrations of the Eucharist in the coming weeks let's be grateful for this Easter season when we celebrate again that we have been set free from the prison of our fears and shown the way to live a life of sacrificial love and undeserved redemption.

© Richard Leonard SJ