Catholic Identity

Next Monday, we celebrate

The Feast day of Mary the Mother of Jesus,

Mary has two feast days one in May &

Monday is the Assumption of Mary.

We acknowledge Mary’s unconditional love & utmost trust in God.

We are inspired by Mary, in her hope & faith.

A Prayer for our St. Mary’s Students.

May they grow in faith & love,

Always trusting in God,

To live this life on Earth,

To Face it’s struggles & it’s strife

But always know their worth.

Not just the lessons in a book,

Or how the rivers flow,

But be guided on their path

Wherever they may go.

To understand their truth

& know right from wrong,

And gather all the beauty of

A flower & a song.

They’ll help the world to grow

In wisdom & in grace,

Then feel God’s love

And always find their place.

And so we ask for guidance, God

That our student’s play their part

For character & confidence

And happiness of heart.

Amen

Whole school Mass -

Feast of the Assumption of Mary

Monday 15th August, 12-30, All welcome!

Next week, Monday, August 15th, we will gather with Fr Nove as a whole school community to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, Mother of God.

Families are warmly welcomed to join us in celebrating this mass on Monday, 15th August at 12.30pm in the Brigidine Centre.

Tea and coffee for families afterwards.

Steps in Faith Program

The children in our school and parish community are continuing to prepare for their Sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist in their family groups. We were blessed to share the Eucharist Faith Formation evening with Angela Finn, who explored the background to Eucharist and together we unpacked how this understanding can enrich our faith journey and that of our children.

We continue to keep these children and their families in our prayers through the final part of their sacramental journey.

Year Level Masses

We are greatly looking forward to having friends and family join our masses to celebrate together with Fr Novie. Masses will be on Friday’s at 12.30pm in the Brigidine Centre, unless otherwise notified.

Friday 12th August - Foundation

Monday 15th August 12.30pm - Whole School Mass - the Assumption of Mary. (Year 5 lead)

Friday 26th August - Year 6

Friday 2nd September - Year 1

Friday 9th September - Year 4

Altar Servers

Any children who have celebrated their Confirmation / First Eucharist in the last 3 years are invited to join our school and/or parish Altar Server roster. Some children participated in a training session in the holidays and are very much looking forward to their first opportunity to serve at mass in our parish. If your child would like to learn how to altar serve in our school and/or parish, please email Mrs Gould to express an interest. We will be running a training session at school this term and would love more children to join us.

lgould@smechuca.catholic.edu.au

St Mary’s Parish Stewardship Program

Help us reinvigorate our Parish!

Last weekend at mass, we officially launched our Stewardship Program.

But what is stewardship we hear you ask?

Stewardship involves embracing a common vision and putting together a plan for how we can work together to take ‘care’ of our church for the future, resulting in a spiritually vibrant, highly engaged and financially secure parish.

As we begin to recover from COVID, we are presented with an opportunity to create a fresh start.

An opportunity to: find new ways to reconnect with our community; welcome new members; increase social activities; identify skills and talents; and secure our resources for the future including people’s time, our ministry services and our parish finances.

But we need your help to do it!

As part of this process, we are calling on all our new, old and existing members to complete our Parish Census. Families at St Mary’s and St Joseph's are especially invited to complete the census.

The Census aims to gather information about who is currently involved in the parish community, who would like to be involved, what gifts and talents you have to contribute, what events, activities and services you would like to see in the future and how we could better support you as a member of our Catholic Parish.

Let’s work together to help our Parish flourish now and in the future!

Complete our quick and easy Census survey today at https://forms.gle/LeHczubMrZwdxdqV7

Or use the QR code below to access the Parish Census.

St Mary’s Parish Expo

St Mary’s Parish Weekend masses:

Saturday 6pm & Sunday 9.30am - all welcome.

St Mary’s Parish Centre

224-230 Anstruther Street, Echuca

Ph: (03) 5482 1127

Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 9.00am - 1.00pm

All other enquires:

Colette Porter 0457 583 536 admin@stmarysechuca.org.au

Christine Sebire: 0411 627 645 christine@stmarysechuca.org.au

Website: www.stmarysechuca.org.au

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