Please give generously to Project Compassion this Lent. We have raised over $240 already but would love to have more donations.

Thank you to Year 3 White who last week had over $90 in donations in their class project compassion box! 

Project Compassion 2024 reminds us that the good we do today will extend and impact the lives of generations to come. Together, we can help vulnerable communities face their challenges today and build a better tomorrow.

TAPITAS- This year our school will be focusing on raising money for drinking water. We have a whole school display, where each class will receive a ‘water drop’ for every $5 raised. The children will be learning more about Project Compassion in class during Friday Prayer and at morning assemblies. 

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Presentation Masses

Thank you to the 9 families who attended the Presentation Masses on Saturday and Sunday. A few other families have booked in for this weekend so please contact the Parish centre if you did not attend last weekend to arrange another Mass for your child to be presented to the Parish. 

Home Groups will be starting soon (if they haven’t already). Please remember a Parent/Carer must attend these sessions with your child. A huge thank you to the families who have offered to host a group- we are very grateful for your time.

Any further enquiries relating to the Sacrament of Reconciliation can be directed to the Parish Office ( 6281 3999/ wodennorth@cg.org.au )

Upcoming dates to remember: 

• PRESENTATION MASSES: Each family must attend one Mass to be presented to the Parish
• RETREAT AND PRACTICE FOR CHILDREN: Holy Trinity School Hall 9.15am–2.15pm Friday 22nd March, 18 Theodore Street, Curtin. More information will be sent home next week regarding the Retreat day via compass
• SACRAMENTAL CELEBRATION: Holy Trinity Church, Curtin 6pm Tuesday, 7th May

FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR B

Gospel- John 3:14-21

God sent his Son into the world that we might be saved through him.

Pope Francis points out that Jesus’ answer to Nicodemus in today’s Gospel ‘disrupts our image of God’. From Jesus’ reference to both Father and Son, the Pope says, we learn that God – Father, Son, and Spirit – is ‘a God of communion’.

Moreover, we are invited to share in this ‘communion of love’! As the Pope suggests, we can recall this invitation every time we make the sign of the cross. ‘By tracing the cross on our body,’ he says, ‘we remind ourselves how much God loved us, to the point of giving his life for us; and we repeat to ourselves that his love envelops us completely, from top to bottom, from left to right, like an embrace that never abandons us.’

As receivers of such love, we are called to also become sharers of it. As well as reminding ourselves that we are loved, the Pope says, when making the sign of the cross we also ‘commit ourselves to bear witness to God-as-love, creating communion in his name.’

Flowing from this wonderful image the Pope asks us to reflect: ‘do we bear witness to God-as-love? … do our communities bear witness to this? … Do we always leave the door open, do we know how to welcome everyone – and I emphasise, everyone – as brothers and sisters?’

After all, the Crucified One was sent ‘not to condemn the world’ but to save it. A person can condemn themselves only by closing the door to themselves or others, refusing to believe in God’s love. Nobody who approaches the door, however tentatively, can be guilty of making that mistake.

Adapted from Nick Brodie