Mission News

Mr Luke McMahon

Winter Shopping with Downs and West Community Support Charity Stall

The Downs and West Community Support team will have from Tuesday 22 June to Friday 25 June at Brookside Shopping Centre, Mitchelton, a stall with a variety of beautiful handcrafted winter woollies including items for sale for children and babies. Our crocheted rugs are amazing. The stall can be found outside the Terry White Chemist. 

All proceeds go to supporting individuals & farming families in Southern Queensland struggling through the impact of drought, flood, fires and COVID-19.

 

For any further information please contact John Hollamby on 0418 244 523.

Chaplain’s Corner

Chaplain’s Corner 12 June: Memorial of The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Saturday after the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Mary ‘stored up all these things in her heart.’ This Memorial invites us to ponder with her, as our hearts learn to glow warm with such love. Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary began in the Middle Ages and was especially promoted by St. John Eudes in the 18th century. Pope Pius XII instituted this feast in the 1940s soon after he consecrated the world to her heart. 

 

Mary always points us to her son, as we grow in our love for him. Such a heart does not stay intact and aloof but breaks and suffers as it encounters the pain around us. As with Mary, God works through us to reconcile the world. 

 

On the third day, Mary found Jesus in the temple and, much later, resurrected. Her loving heart received the grace to stay present through the sorrow and, eventually, experience the life of new creation.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us. 
St. Marcellin Champagnat, pray for us. 
St. Mary of the Cross, pray for us. 
And may we always remember to pray for one another.

Prayers

We pray for all in our community who are unwell and are suffering at this time. 

  • For Sharon Gillett and the Gillett family

We pray for those called home to heaven, especially Greg Dux (OB 1966)

 

May our loving God, with Mary and Champagnat, walk with all members of the Marist family. Amen

Year 7 Game Changers Regional Retreat

Marist College Ashgrove staff and students recently participated in the Year 7 Game Changers Regional Retreat. Year 7 Game Changers learned about the global Marist family to which they belong. By exploring this shared Marist story, especially the characteristic of Love of Work, the group were encouraged to think about how they can work towards creating a positive impact within our MCA community. 

 

For more information on Game Changers at MCA please contact Adam Burns on burnsa@marash.qld.edu.au.

Retreat RSVP's Are Now Overdue

Reminder for Year 12 students and parents RETREAT RSVP’S ARE NOW OVERDUE 

If you have not already done so, please provide consent for your son to attend the Year 12 Retreat via Parent Lounge and ensure that you update and verify your son’s medical details and request any special dietary requirements. The due date was Monday 14 June.

 

Go to Parent Lounge select “Events and Payments” then “Year 12 Retreat 2021”

Should you have any difficulties logging in to Parent Lounge, please contact our Help Desk at computerservice@marash.qld.edu.au or contact Liz Spry in the Mission Office at spryl@marash.qld.edu.au or phone 07 3858 4582 

Great Book Swap Friday 30 July 

Looking for a holiday job around the house? Fancy curling up somewhere warm with an old favourite? 

 

The College will host a Great Book Swap this year on Friday 30 July to end our own Book week.

 

The Great Book Swap (an initiative of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation) is a fantastic way to celebrate reading locally, learn more about Indigenous languages and culture, while raising funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. 

 

The idea is to swap a favourite book in exchange for a gold coin donation. 

 

These holidays we are encouraging our students and staff to use the ‘downtime’ to re-read old favourites, clean out bookshelves and donate those books that can be ‘rehomed’ on return to Term 3.

Watch this space for further information and to find ways you can assist.  

Reflection

The story of our spirituality is indeed a simple one. It is a story of women and men who find within a thirst that only God can quench. Having drunk deeply, they find themselves filled with Jesus’ own desire – to give flesh to God’s Good News. Moved by the Spirit, urged by God’s own longing to bring life to the world, we become streams of living water, flowing through the personal, communal, and ministry aspects of our lives. (Water from the Rock 43)