RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
First Eucharist
The Sacrament of First Eucharist will be celebrated at Holy Trinity, Curtin, on Saturday 20 September and Sunday 21 September 2025.
Who is eligible?
Children in Year 4 or above who celebrated their First Reconciliation may be enrolled in the Parish’s Family-Based Sacramental Program for First Eucharist.
Enrolment
Enrolment by Friday 25 July must be done online using the Qkr! App.
To enrol: Download the Qkr! app.
Tap on ‘North Woden Transfiguration Parish’.
Tap ‘Parish Payments and Sacraments’.
Choose ‘Sacrament’ from the top menu bar.
Tap ‘Sacrament of First Eucharist’.
Complete the form and make your online payment.
Next Tuesday the 29th of July at 6pm we are holding our Parent Information Night for First Eucharist via Microsoft Teams.
Here is the meeting link:
Microsoft Teams
Meeting ID: 420 854 146 916 7
Passcode: nh9N8SS9
If you would like to host a Home Group and have any questions, please join the meeting from 5:30pm where we can clarify what this will look like.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.
NAIDOC WEEK
This Thursday (July 24th) the Youth Ministry team will lead the school in our NAIDOC Week Liturgy at 12pm. All families are welcome to join to pay respect to the First Nations people of our country.
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer Luke 11:1-13
If we’ve ever wondered ‘how to pray’, we can find words of guidance in Jesus’ instructions to the disciples. He invites us to call God ‘Father’, an intimate term which indicates how God sees us, as his children. The words, ‘may your name be held holy’ could also be termed: ‘Father, may we always honour you, and know how special you are. There is no-one else like you’. Jesus encourages us to acknowledge and voice our desire to do God’s will in our lives, that God’s kingdom of love, goodness, mercy, compassion and salvation be our reality. We pray that our needs are met, and that our sins are forgiven. And just as God the Father forgives the sins of others. ‘And do not put us to the test’ could also sound like, ‘we pray that we can bear what life brings us, with your grace and with the help of the Holy Spirit’. God wants to hear from us more than we can imagine, and wants to give us all we ask for, in the name of his Son.
From God’s Word, Daily Reflections, 2025
Yours in Christ,
Andrea McQuirk
Religious Education Coordinator