Religious Education and Social Justice

Way of the West Asylum Seeker Food Assistance

This is the final week for our collection of food and living essentials for refugees and people seeking asylum.

The types of items that will be of most benefit are listed below and  your donated items will be distributed through the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) located in Footscray. We encourage everyone to donate at least one item. 

Baskets are available in each Learning Community to place the items you donate. We would love to see them overflowing with donations by the end of this week!

Bianca, Liv, Elle, Anna, Maddie and Sophie

The Social Justice Leaders

National Drought Prayer Campaign

The Church in Australia is dedicating the month of November as a time to pray for those affected by crippling drought conditions and to pray for the gift of rain. 

Parishes, schools, families and other Catholic communities across the country are being encouraged to participate in the National Prayer Campaign for Drought, which also invites people to provide assistance to those most in need.

We pray:

Eternal God,

In wisdom and love

you created our earth

to sustain us and give us life.

We turn to you now

in faith, hope and love,

asking you to look with favour

on our drought-stricken land,

on our starving animals,

on our failing crops.

Strengthen, sustain and give new heart

to our farmers

and to all who are affected by

drought;

be with those who support them.

In your loving providence,

send abundant rain

and restore our parched earth.

Father of all compassion,

hear our prayer

through Jesus Christ your Son,

in whom the promise of new life

has dawned, and

through the power

of the Holy Spirit,

the Lord the giver of life:

Renew your faithful people;

Renew the face of the earth.

Our Lady of the Southern Cross,

Mary, help of Christians –

Pray for us.

St Mary of the Cross MacKillop –

Pray for us.

Jane Wilkinson

Religious Education Leader