John XXIII College Newsletter

Liturgy

Community Mass

Parents are always welcome to attend the joyful Friday morning liturgies where students, parents, staff and friends gather as a family in Christ. After Mass finishes, around 8:30am, the celebration continues with coffee in the Circle of Friends Café. 

 

Our Community Mass next Friday will be prepared by students in St Louis House, following their House Day on Thursday. (The feast of St Louis’ House patron, St Aloysius Gonzaga, is officially celebrated by the church on Monday). As it is a Jesuit feast,  it is rather appropriate that we will also have a ‘guest’ Jesuit presider for this Eucharist: Fr Iain Radvan  SJ, who is visiting Perth for two weeks.

 

Thank you to student in various Magis programs who prepared this morning’s Eucharist and  proclaimed, with care, the beautiful readings which we will also listen to in our parish Masses this weekend, for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. 

 

Sunday’s reading from St Paul’s second letter to the Christians living in Corinth reads: 

The love of Christ overwhelms us when we reflect that if one man has died for all, then all people should be dead; and the reason he died for all was so that all people should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life for them… And for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation has gone, and now the new one is here.

 

Brother Mickey McGrath osfs – No storm can shake my inmost calm
Brother Mickey McGrath osfs – No storm can shake my inmost calm

The Gospel from Mark recounts the extraordinary story of Jesus & the disciples in a boat when a storm erupts. Mark’s Gospel continues: 

They woke him and said to him, ‘Master, do you not care? We are going down!’ And he woke up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Quiet now! Be calm!’ And the wind dropped, and all was calm again. Then he said to them, ‘Why are you so frightened? How is it that you have no faith?’ They were filled with awe and said to one another, ‘Who can this be? Even the wind and the sea obey him.’

 

The short reflection on these readings is from the Jesuits in Britain website:

Though Christ may seem to be asleep, he is with us at every moment of our lives… As God’s creatures, the forces of nature listen to and obey the voice of their Creator. Though the storms of fear and doubt may have played more significant roles in our lives during this past year, God’s love continues to speak to us. It is the love of Christ, not the storm, which ‘overwhelms us’.

 

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: