Education in Faith

Sacramental News and Dates

Sacrament Levy

There is a $25 Sacrament Levy to cover the cost for:

•  a guest speaker to conduct a Parent and Child Workshop for each Sacrament.
• professionally made stoles for ALL 3 Sacraments. 
• a candle for children receiving reconciliation.
• children receiving First Eucharist and Confirmation to travel to St. Kevin’s Church for Reconciliation, Eucharist practice by bus.

This levy needs to be paid in full to the school in an envelope clearly indicating your child’s name, Home Group and name of Sacrament being received at the start of the year, before or on the day of your Family Workshop Session.

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A

Living the Gospel – Agents of change

We often hear that to fully live out the kingdom message of Jesus is to be counter-cultural. These parables are a perfect example of that call. Jesus himself acted in contrast to his cultural context and often used examples in his teaching that flew in the face of cultural expectation. What does it mean to be counter-cultural today? Our world is driven by an emphasis on the individual; an emphasis on acquisition; an emphasis on consuming. The kingdom parables of this’s gospel call us to be the agents of change that ‘irritate’ in our own small way to make a difference in the world.

Discussion Starters

• Who has ever grown a plant from a seed? What happened?
• What do seeds need if they are to grow into a plant?
• Where did the farmer sow the seed in today’s gospel?
• Why didn’t some of the seed grow?
• The seed is like the word of God wanting to be planted in us.
• How can we become the ‘good ground’ so it can grow in us?

God Bless

Rozeta Ambrose

rambrose@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au

GRADE 5/6 SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM – MINI VINNIES

WINTER APPEAL

This was the last collection for our Winter Appeal. The St Vincent de Paul Hampton Park Conference collected all the donations on Wednesday. They were so impressed. They filled 2 cars with all your donations! A big thanks to the SFS Community.

Final totals for each House:

Well done Patrick!!! The winners for this competition!

COMMUNITY SPIRIT AWARD POINTS

A reminder to students that they can earn house points by demonstrating community spirit which includes our PBL values, especially the PBL focus for this week which is KINDNESS in outdoor spaces. Play fairly and be a good sport. 

The results so far are:

Well done Patrick for taking the lead!! But remember we have all of this term and next so one of the other houses may take the lead.

VINNIES SOUP AND CHAT EVENING

On Thursday August 10th Mini Vinnies will have the opportunity to attend our first Soup and Chat evening. The focus of the evening will be raising awareness about homelessness which is an issue not only within our local community but the wider community also. We have invited the Vinnies Youth Engagement Team to come and present a variety of engaging activities to raise awareness. There will also be a fundraising element to this evening and students will then decide which Vinnies Program they would like to support.

Parents can I now ask you to give permission via Operoo and then students will be given their fundraising sheet. 

Giuliana & SFS Mini Vinnies