Mission News

Mr Luke McMahon

Prayers

We pray for those called home to heaven especially

  • John Barnett (father-in-law of teacher Catherine Barnett)
  • Betty Daunt (mother of Helen Quirk Marist Centre Brisbane Office)
  • Br Anthony Atkinson (past staff member) 

May they be welcomed into the loving arms of our loving God. 

 

We pray for our Year 12 students. We ask that you give them strength in time of need and guide them through final exams and into graduation.

 

We pray for all in need in our community. 

 

Mary our Good Mother                                                 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 

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

St Vincent de Paul MCA Christmas Appeal

CLOSING THIS FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER

Each year on behalf of St Vincent De Paul and Downs and West Community Support (Sisters of Charity), through Pastoral Groups and Primary classes we, the College Community collect donations for a Christmas Appeal.

 

Prior to COVID-19 this meant collecting foodstuffs but at the moment it involves providing Gift Vouchers. Last year we managed more than $12000 in gift cards which sees the organisations being able to provide something great for families who need support at Christmas time. 

Chaplain’s Corner

Reflection for 11 November, Friday of 32nd week of Ordinary time. Wedding days are always moments of great celebration and enthusiastic hope for the future. Not only are two lives bonded together but two families enter a relationship with each other. In earlier centuries, weddings were more like family alliances than a lifelong relationship between two people.

 

Unfortunately, we do not frequently celebrate wedding anniversaries with the same energy. Yet, we need the witness of people who have stayed faithful for twenty-five or fifty years. They show us God’s grace at work and should give hope to younger couples facing difficulties.

 

Fidelity in faith is also an important witness. That is the subject of both of today’s readings. The Second Letter of John [2 John 4-9] writes about the importance of remaining “in the teaching.” It is possible to become so “progressive” that we dilute the Faith and lose its life-giving truth. When Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council, he distinguished between the content of faith and how it is presented. We can always find new ways of teaching and expressing faith. We need to take care that we do not empty it of divine content.

 

In today’s Gospel [Luke 17: 26-37], Jesus speaks of those who pay no attention to faithful living and attempt to do emergency repairs when the storm of the Second Coming arrives. We cannot repair a roof during a rainstorm. We cannot expect to suddenly become faithful at the moment of Judgment.

 

Just as we need to honour those people who have been faithful to their wedding vows over time, we also need to honour those who have been faithful to the Church over the years. Theirs may not be the latest theological vocabulary. They may not have read the latest books. They may not visit the websites of religious news. But they have kept the fire of faith alive.

 

Perhaps we are too drawn to the new and unusual. We forget the heroic faith of those who remained faithful to the Gospel not because it is new but because it is true.

 

Mary, Our Good Mother, 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.