Liturgy

Community Mass

Friday 13 August is the date of our next Community Mass. This Mass, jointly prepared by students in Ward and Loyola Houses, will mark the end of Founders Time at the College. Parents are always welcome to join us in the liturgy and in the Circle of Friends Café afterwards.

Community Mass details

• College Chapel
• Fridays in term time
• Starts: 8:00am and concludes 8:30am

NB Next week there will be a John XXIII Day Mass for all College students at 9:00. There will NOT be a Community Mass.

SACRAMENT PROGRAM

Information from some of our local parishes 

Saint Thomas Apostle, Claremont

Confirmation Friday 27 August 

Reconciliation October 

Please note that, due to current COVID restrictions on maximum capacity, priority for enrolment will go to families who are in the parish of Saint Thomas Apostle. Further information is available here. 

Enrolment forms are available from silvia.kinder@iona.wa.edu.au

St Mary Star of the Sea, Cottesloe/Corpus Christi, Mosman Park 

Confirmation Sunday 7 November

Information Day: 5 August, 4-5pm Parish Centre

Enrolment information and contact details for the Sacrament Coordinator may be found here. 

Further information regarding 2021 Sacrament programs available from:

• Archdiocesan website;
• College website  here
• Mary-Anne Lumley mary-anne.lumley@cew.edu.au OR 08 9383 0513

Good News for the feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Tomorrow, 31 July, is the feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The following excerpts are from a longer article by Jesuit, Fr Andy Hamilton, which was publish in Eureka Street. Fr Andy is a theologian, a writer and, among his many other roles, the Media Officer for Jesuit Social Services and Consulting Editor for Eureka Street.

… Ignatius found God’s calling to follow Jesus’ way. As he devoted all his energies to following it, he began to open this reflective way of life to others. He lived as a beggar who in the marketplaces engaged people in conversation that led them to reflect on their own lives. These conversations helped shape the Spiritual Exercises, a program of prayer that led people to reflect on the world around them, on what mattered to them in their daily lives, to imagine a better way of living and to find something beyond themselves... 

A radical Christian vision animated Ignatius and his companions to found the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and to embody in it both the call to a reflective life and to the radical following of Jesus. It inspired a breadth that took people beyond the boundaries of the Catholic Church, to engage in conversation with anyone who asked, and to recognise that God was to be found in the margins. Among Jesuits it was expressed most notably in their adaptation to the religious culture of India and China and to patient exploration of points of contact with other religious cultures. 

Ignatius’ genius was to hold together the radical heart of the Gospel and the gift to the whole world of attentiveness and reflection.