Sacrament of First Reconciliation Presentation Masses 

This weekend sees the First Reconciliation Presentation Masses. This is an opportunity for our parishioners to acknowledge and pray for our students and their families as they prepare to receive God’s healing love through the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Parish Mass times:

Saturday 4th March; 6pm and Sunday 5th March; 9:30am or 5:30pm at the Holy Trinity Church, Curtin. All are most welcome.

Project Compassion

Project Compassion runs during the season of Lent. Students are invited to donate to Caritas through Project Compassion. All classrooms have Project Compassion boxes in their classrooms. Classes are raising money to buy virtual chickens. For every $5 raised a chicken will be added to their farm. All money raised will go to Caritas. Thank you for your support.

How does Caritas help? Let's meet Priscilla:

Priscilla joined the Zimbabwe Integrated Community Development Program, implemented by our partner Caritas Hwange and funded by Caritas Australia. Through the program, Priscilla and her community learnt conservation farming techniques to grow drought-resistant crops to help mitigate the effects of climate change.  

Priscilla was able to produce a bumper harvest in her first year of practising conservation farming.  

Priscilla also used the funds from her harvest to start poultry farming, where she can sell eggs to pay for her grandchildren’s school fees, books and stationery. The poultry farming provides a safety net for Priscilla and her family during times of hardship, like the current drought.

Sunday Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9, First Sunday of Lent  – Year A

His face shone like the sun.

Just when some of us think Lent is a grim season of self-denial, the Church gives us the story of Jesus’ Transfiguration to put our sacrifices in context. The only reason we deny ourselves anything or commit ourselves to actions of service for these 40 days is to grow more deeply in love with the God who loves us into life. Penance is not meant to attack our self-esteem, it’s intended to help us sort out what really matters, to cast some light in the darkness of our lives and to focus on the relationship which gives meaning and purpose for this world and the next.

The God of Mount Tabor is not interested in each of us feeling isolated as we fulfil the letter of a legal code. God wants all of us to have hearts that listen to the Gospel of love so that we can gain the power to transform the world through the sacrifices of our daily lives.

On a much gentler scale, Mass is meant to be a weekly mountaintop experience for us where we hear God call us by name and confess his love for us; where we feel re-energised for the commission we have to bear God’s light to the world. In this context anything we can do this Lent that helps remove the blocks in our full response to God’s love, must be worth effort.

(adapted from Richard Leonard)