Sacrament of First Reconciliation Retreat 

Students in Year 3 and any other students enrolled in the Sacrament of First Reconciliation will be attending a Retreat Day on Friday 24th March at Holy Trinity School. A wonderful day has been planned for the students. Some of the activities include guided meditation, artwork and we will attend mass.

Important Information:

• Students are to be dropped off at Holy Trinity, Curtin from 8:45am.
• Students are to come to the Holy Trinity school hall. Miss Walsh will be at the front of the school to assist students.
• The retreat commences at 9am.
• Students are to wear comfortable clothes suitable for a day at school.
• Students need to bring lunch, recess and a labelled hat in a small bag.
• Students will walk back to school at 2:15pm. If the weather is inclement, staff and students will catch a bus.

Please email veronica.hall@cg.catholic.edu.au if you have any questions.

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. 

Sunday Gospel: John 11:1-45 , Fifth Sunday of Lent  – Year A

I am the resurrection and the life.

On this last Sunday in Lent Lazarus is given to us to help us think about the tombs in which we lie hidden and the life to which we are called. The bad spirit seduces most of us into having some form of secretive life. It might be a secret we can’t tell, a sin we can’t confess or a memory we want to bury. At its worst it can be a lifestyle or a pattern of unethical behaviour we have divorced from the rest of our lives. We may even con ourselves into believing that all of this is normal and ‘not so bad’.

These tombs often look similar. They seem small on the surface, but as we get away with our secrets we bury ourselves in them more deeply. We jealously guard the entrance, displacing energy to defend our tombs and we’re ashamed if anyone rolls away the stone and sees the mess inside.

But this Sunday Jesus stands at the entrance of our tombs and calls us out of them. We’re asked to face down the bad spirits that keep us locked in secrecy, to move away from shame, embrace repentance, recognise the price to be paid for being true to what’s best in ourselves and we’re invited to know the light and life of Christ’s healing and forgiveness.

No one can pretend that this journey is easy, but it’s what Lent is all about: the journey from the tomb of our own particular deaths, through penance to the new life of Easter. May this Eucharist allow us to see the Lord stand at our tomb and gently call us by name, ‘Come forth’. And at His word may we be unbound and let go free (adapted from Richard Leonard).

Blessings for the week ahead

Veronica Hall

Religious Education Coordinator