This year at Sts Peter and Paul, we are all called to ‘Flourish’ 

Welcome to 2024, and an extra special welcome to all the new families in our community this term. Our theme for 2024 is “Planted in the House of the Lord, they will flourish” Psalm 92:13. Throughout the year, we will be looking at the ways we can flourish, individually and as a school community and help those around us to flourish. 

Sacramental News

SACRAMENTAL CELEBRATION: Reconciliation

Please continue to pray for our students and their families, as they prepare to make the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time. 

First Reconciliation will take place at Holy Trinity Church, Curtin 6pm Tuesday, 7th May. When you arrive at the Church, please look for your child’s certificate and that will be your pew allocation. We will have a Liturgy, during which, candidates and a Parent will go to one of the Priests. 

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

Confirmation Parent Information Night

An information night for the Sacrament of Confirmation will be held via Zoom on Tuesday 14th May commencing at 6pm via teams. We are also looking for volunteers to host a family group. The role of a host is not difficult, with session notes and guidance provided. If you are interested in hosting a family group, please complete the ‘Host Nomination’ form (attached in the Compass notification) and attend a Zoom information session at 5:30 pm on Tuesday 14 May. 

If you have any questions, please contact Catherine Grinsell-Jones at the parish office on 6281 3999.

Mother’s Day Liturgy

Families are warmly invited to attend the Mother’s Day Prayer Celebration Friday May 10 (Week 2) in the Hall. This will be led by our beautiful Kinder classes.

Gospel- John 15:9-17 6th Sunday in Easter

No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.

The boundlessness of God’s love is seen in the fact that God loved us even before we were deserving of God’s love. In fact, it was God’s love that made us able both to receive and to give love in return.

Love is of God; love is God. Divine love is constant and trustworthy. How easily we can think this thought or speak these words, yet how difficult, even impossible, it is to comprehend what it means. We can only really recognise love in its many concrete manifestations. Love is patient, kind and forbearing; it believes, it hopes, it endures. The love of God breaks down the barriers between Gentile and Jew, between slave and free, between the poor and the prosperous, between women and men, between the healthy and the ailing, between young and old.

Embraced by such love we are gradually transformed. We begin to recognise God’s love in places we never suspected it would be found. We discover that what we once judged unclean may merely be an unfamiliar openness to God’s truth. We discover that our own insistence on legitimate religious practice may really be spiritual elitism. Our eyes are opened to ways we have tried to confine God’s love to the conventional boundaries we ourselves have set. As we are drawn into God’s love, we eagerly embrace the commandments that help us to live righteous lives. To the extent that we love as universally as God does, we will know that we live in God and that God lives in us.

Adapted from Dianne Bergant CSA

Blessings for the week ahead,

Amanda Basedow

Religious Education Coordinator (Acting)