St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal

Students and families are invited to donate non-perishable Christmas goodies to help families. Each grade level has been provided with a food donation suggestion. Please bring all donations to your child’s classroom tub.

Students and families may also like to donate a wrapped Christmas gift with a gender and age clearly labelled. 

Local families are in need of gifts for:

• 3 year old gifts for boys and girls
• 4 year old gifts for boys and girls
• 5 year old gifts for boys and girls
• 6 year old gifts for boys and girls
• 7 year old gifts for girls and boys
• 8 year old gifts for girls and boys
• 9 year old gifts for boys and girls
• 10 year old gifts for boys and girls
• 11 year old gifts for boys and girls
• 12 year old gifts for boys and girls

Donations of movie vouchers would be gratefully appreciated for 13 years and above.

Catholic Mission Month Fundraising

Thank you to all the members of our school community for their generosity during our Catholic Mission Month fundraising efforts through Socktober and Market Day. As a community, we raised a total of $1911.40 for Catholic Mission!! An outstanding amount of money raised, thank you all so much for your generosity. I am continuously blown away by the fantastic community we have at Sts Peter and Paul.

Gospel - John 18:33-37

Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (Year B)

Pilate questions Jesus about his identity.

Until his trial, Jesus himself refused to be identified as king. The royal messianic expectations that prevailed during his lifetime were predominantly political. If he assumed them, his followers might have instigated a rebellion against the Roman occupiers. When finally he did acknowledge his royal identity, he insisted that his rule was not like that of other kings.

Enthroned in heaven, Christ is revealed as the faithful witness to all that God has done and will continue to do. As first-born from the dead, his resurrection is the promise of our own resurrection. The dominion that he received from God is universal and exclusive and it will last forever. When he comes again on the last day, he will be revealed in all his glory.

Christ's kingdom is a kingdom of truth and life, of holiness and grace, of justice and love and peace. We need not stand at a distance from him, afraid to approach because of our human vulnerability. He is the one who loved us so much that he handed himself over to suffering and death so that we might live. He has already brought us to birth in this kingdom through Baptism and he has taught us how to live in it. Today we look to that time when his glory will be revealed, when we will all be gathered into the embrace of God, there to sing praise to that glory forever.

Adapted from Diane Bergant CSA

Blessings for the week ahead,

Sarah Walsh

Religious Education Coordinator (Acting)