FROM THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION COORDINATOR'S DESK
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY - May the Month of Mary
Mary was the mother of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. She was a willing servant. She trusted God and she obeyed his call.
Mary was young, poor and female. God looked upon the quality of her trust and obedience. He knew she would willingly serve God in one of the most important callings ever given to a human being. Just like Mary, God looks at our obedience and trust.
Can we willingly accept God's plan?
And so we pray...
Loving God, we thank you for mothers – for all they mean or have meant, for the love they have shown and the care they have given.
We thank you for the qualities of mothers – their patience, their kindness, concern and understanding.
We thank you for the part they play in our lives, and we thank you for this day of saying ‘thank you’, this opportunity to say what we so often mean to say but so rarely do.
For mothers and motherhood, for children and families we bring you this day our grateful praise.
Happy Mothers’ Day.
ANZAC DAY COMMEMORATION
The Year 6 students led a prayerful and solemn commemoration for ANZAC Day. A reminder was given that we remember all the service men and women who have died, their families and those who continue to defend our free land. We prayed for the people of Ukraine and for peace, justice and compassion.
Lest we forget.
LUMEN CHRISTI PARISH CONFIRMATION 2022
The Sacramental Programme for Confirmation continues at St John Vianney Co-Cathedral commencing at 6:30 pm.
Term 2, 2022
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Session |
2 |
11/12 May |
St John Vianney |
6:30 pm |
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Session |
3 |
18/19 May |
St John Vianney |
6:30 pm |
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Session |
4 |
25/26 May |
St John Vianney |
6:30 pm |
The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated on Friday 3 June and Saturday 4 June, 2022. Further information will be provided at the sessions.
Loving God,
Pour out your blessing
Upon our beloved children,
That during this time of Sacramental preparation
They may grow closer to you,
And come to know your special love for them.
May this time of preparation be a time of blessing
For our families and our community,
And unite us all in your great love.
Amen.
FOR YOUR DIARY
LUMEN CHRISTI PARISH - RECONCILIATION AND HOLY COMMUNION 2022 - YEAR 3 2022
The parent meeting / enrolment for the Sacramental Programme - Reconciliation and Holy Communion will take place on Wednesday 29.6.22 OR Thursday 30.6.22 at St John Vianney Co-Cathedral commencing at 6.30 pm.
PARISH MASSES
It was lovely to celebrate Mass with the Year 1 and 6 students and some of their parents and grandparents in the last two weeks.
An invitation is extended to parents, grandparents and carers to attend their child / children’s designated grade Parish Mass and then stay for a ‘cuppa and a chat’.
We are hoping that this will assist you to become reacquainted with the Mass and our community. Please put the date/s in your diary!
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PARISH MASS - Thursday 9:30 AM |
CLASS ATTENDING |
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12 May 2022 |
Year2 |
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19 May - Whole School Mass PLEASE NOTE - THIS MASS HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO THURSDAY 23 JUNE 2022 |
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26 May 2022 |
Kinder |
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2 June 2022 |
Year 4 |
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9 June 2022 |
Year 5 |
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16 June 2022 |
Year 3 |
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23 June 2022 |
Whole School |
VINNIES VAN FOOD DRIVE Friday 20 May 2022
In order to assist with the work of the Vinnies Van we are hosting a food drive on FRIDAY 20 MAY 2022 for essential food items for the Vinnies Van. Each class and the staff has been given a particular item to bring in. These items are listed as essentials for the van to continue to operate in the capacity that it does, assisting our brothers and sisters in need. Ring pull cans are appreciated.
Also, on this day, the students will be invited to wear their favourite team colours or Jersey, scarf, beanie, socks. The P& F will also be holding a special food day too.
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Year 6 |
Canned tomatoes or canned beetroot slices |
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Year 5 |
Canned corn or short grain rice |
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Year 4 |
Pasta sauces (white and red) |
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Year 3 |
Long life (UHT) milk or 2L cordial or juice |
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Year 2 |
Pasta spirals |
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Year 1 |
Large tins of tuna |
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Kindergarten |
Long life (UHT) custard |
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Staff |
Family assorted biscuits |
REFLECTIONS
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FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Voice Followers You and I are Gentiles – part of the non-Jewish world. We are the sort of Christians we are, because of St Paul. He became the strongest advocate of the grace that the early Christian community should be inclusive of all nations and tribes and ethnic groups on the face of the earth. We have not yet realised this potential. What riches of intellectual traditions, cultural expressions, and organisational structure are we still to receive from the Chinese, the Korean, the Indonesians, the Africans, the Indian Catholics who are part of our ‘Church without Borders’? How do we maintain unity and identity amongst such diversity? By listening for the voice of the Good Shepherd, Our Lord Jesus Christ. But it takes a good teacher to help us to hear The Voice in the clamour of life. Some of those teachers may be found amongst the Bishops who carry a shepherd’s staff. But at least in my experience the best assistant-shepherds have been my parents, and some others. They have helped me hear The Voice assuring me that I will never perish, that I will receive eternal life. That is a Voice worth following! We could pause for a moment to get on the same wavelength as the Good Shepherd so as to echo His Voice in our lives. © Fr Michael Tate; mtate@bigpond.com |
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FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER City Life for True Lovers ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’ You may think that Our Lord’s extravagant extreme of love in voluntarily undergoing death for us, is something no human being could ever measure up to. But actually, something like this happens whenever a mother or father sits by the bedside of a child suffering the terrible pain of a chronic illness or traumatic accident and, perhaps, even facing the prospect of death. Such a parent will invariably say ‘I would rather suffer and die than see my child suffer and die.’ It is the same with a person seeing their much loved life partner in a similar situation. Each of us, usually to a lesser degree and in less fraught circumstances, has the opportunity to absorb, to some extent, the sufferings of others. We are thus given the possibility of fulfilling the command: ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’ The effect of this sort of loving will be realised at the end of history, not in a garden of Paradise, but as in a wonderful City where all tears will be wiped from our eyes. We could pause for a moment on our way to that future City, resolving to be alert to opportunities to fulfil our Lord’s command: ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’ © Fr Michael Tate; mtate@bigpond.com |
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SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER God’s home is where the heart is Some people have the idea that God is awfully remote, dwelling beyond the edge of the cosmos. We make contact by sending a prayer like a long range rocket, hoping it will find its target. This is far distant from Our Lord’s teaching in today’s Gospel. ‘If anyone loves me and keeps my word, my Father and I will make our home with that person.’ It is not in outer space, but in inner space that Divine Love will make a home. What turns a house into a home? It is in sitting around a table sharing a meal. So, Jesus created a sacred meal for us and invites us to share in the Heavenly Bread and Spiritual Drink. When we do so, we find, in the words of St John Paul II, that we ‘digest, as it were, the secret of the Resurrection’. We take into ourselves the Real Presence of the Risen Lord who makes his home with us. Coming to Communion, even after a long time away, satisfies the yearning of the human heart because it is made to be the habitation of Divine Love. We could pause for a moment to reflect on the gracious fact that God chooses to dwell in our hearts. Let us respond wholeheartedly. |
Congratulations to our First Holy Communion recipients.
