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

Thank you again to Year 3 White who last week had the most 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

Home Groups

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: 

• RETREAT AND PRACTICE FOR CHILDREN: Holy Trinity School Hall 9.15am–2.15pm Friday 22nd March, 18 Theodore Street, Curtin. All Year 3 students are to attend the Retreat day (even if they are not a candidate for Reconciliation). Please ensure you have filled out the permission form via Compass. 

• SACRAMENTAL CELEBRATION: Holy Trinity Church, Curtin 6pm Tuesday, 7th May

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR B

Gospel- John 12:20-33

If a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it yields a rich harvest.

We want to see Jesus

I can observe a baby, but the parents ‘see’ their baby very differently. They gaze with total fascination, trying to perceive what this little bundle of flesh is really all about, trying to get an insight into its personality, visualising a possible future, hoping for a response.

This Gospel passage begins with a request from some Greeks ‘to see Jesus’, surely in all the ways parents see their baby. They were trying to perceive what this Jesus was really all about, trying to get an insight into his personality, imagining a possible future, hoping for a response.

And there was a response full of allusions to the future.

Jesus was as a grain of wheat. He died and was buried in the earth and that death was fruitful for the whole of humankind. He foresaw being nailed to the cross which would be dropped upright into a hole in the ground.

Our Lord says of that scene: ‘When I am lifted up I will draw all people to myself.’ How were people drawn to this scene?

People saw the length to which Jesus was prepared to go in order to persevere in his mission to live out the message that his Heavenly Father was full of mercy and wanted all people to share in Divine Life. This led to his being lifted up on the cross, being buried in the ground like a grain of wheat, only to rise to new life.

We could take a moment to pray that we will shortly see all this with the eyes of faith as we participate in the rituals of Good Friday and Easter.

Adapted from Michael Tate