Liturgy

Community Liturgy

Community Mass is a joyful gathering of students, parents, staff and friends who make up the John XXIII College family. All are welcome, just come to the Chapel at 8:00am.

Thank you to Pilgrimage students for preparing today’s liturgy. Next Friday, students in St Louis will prepare our Mass, in honour of their patron, St Aloysius Gonzaga. Families of St Louis House – you are particularly welcome!

Community Liturgy summary

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

Sacrament Program

CONGRATULATIONS

… To these students in Year 6 who recently made their Confirmation and celebrated the sacrament with their family in their parishes.

Callum de Andrade

Oliver Defrancesco

Amelia Hennessy

Torren Jakovich

Tom Townsend

Ruby Verleg

Ethan Williams

A number of students in Year 4 will be receiving Holy Communion for the first time this weekend. 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 Corpus Christi

“They all ate and were filled.” – Luke 9:11-17

The reflection for this Sunday’s Gospel is an extract from a longer 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.

Image: Philip Rawlings https://www.philipchircop.com/post/24812163967/becoming-to-body-of-christ-there-is-communion-of

… The devotion we as Catholics have to Christ's presence in the Eucharist is precisely caught up in the meal Jesus left us. Therefore it is right that the food we share and venerate should look inviting and be broken, for this is what Jesus did at his final supper and what he offers us as gifts – himself, broken and poured out in love.

… Not only in grand cathedrals or libraries of words does God visit us. Not only in prophets' speeches or laws set in stone. But in simple gifts of broken bread and poured wine. The action of being broken and poured out is the core of what we believe: our God poured himself out in love for us in Christ; Jesus was broken unto death for us so that we might be made whole; the Spirit gives us strength and courage to face the daily breakings and pourings that make up our lives and every time anyone, anywhere shares bread or passes a cup with those in need, our God is really present.

Following the Trinity's example, this pattern is repeated in all faithful Christian lives too. The martyrs, the saints and all of those we know who have gone before us, having led lives of selfless devotion, continue to embody the Body and Blood of Christ we venerate.

And so to us. When we come forward, when we say ‘Amen’ and receive into our hands the Bread of Life and the Cup of Salvation we too take on to ourselves the invitation to become what we receive: a body broken in love, blood poured out in hope that the world may be saved from itself and find life to the full in Christ.