Confirmation

We are still awaiting the Confirmation Candidate Booklets from the parish. As soon as they are made available, they will be sent home.

Social Justice - Vinnies Winter Appeal 

Throughout Weeks 3 and 4, we are inviting students to, ‘Share your Kindness’ and donate one or more of the the following items: toiletries bag, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, soap, face washer, hairbrush, moisturiser, and feminine hygiene products. Donations can be dropped off at the school foyer in the labelled tubs. 

‘Share your Kindness’ weeks will culminate in Crazy Hair Donation Day on Friday 19th May. Students are invited to have crazy hair and donate one or more of the items listed above. Thank you for your support. 

Sunday Gospel: John 14:15-21, Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A

I shall ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate 

Today’s Gospel speaks of an advocate. This translates a Greek word: ‘paraclete’. Our Lord says: ‘I will send you another Paraclete to be with you forever.’ Our Lord was a Paraclete, and he would send another.

What does this strange sounding word mean? Here is a hint. We all know that parallel lines run, well, para-llel. They run alongside each other. A paraclete is a person who stands alongside someone and pleads their case.

That is how our Lord Jesus Christ saw himself. His role was not to condemn but to plead the case for mercy and compassion, to be the intercessor par excellence.

Our Lord promises another Paraclete dwelling within us, individually and as the body of Christ’s disciples, the Holy Spirit advocating our cause, assisting us to live Truthfully by the measure of the One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. This Paraclete particularly assists us by acting as the Spirit of Truth.

We could pause for a moment to thank God for the two Paracletes, constantly pleading our case before the Throne of Mercy

(Fr Michael Tate).

Blessings for the week ahead,

Veronica Hall

Religious Education Coordinator