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. 

On Tuesday the 29th of July we held a Parent Information Night for First Eucharist via Microsoft Teams.

If you were unable to attend and are interested in your child participating in the Sacrament, please contact me directly at andrea.mcquirk@cg.catholic.edu.au so that I can provide you with all the necessary information. 

I look forward to supporting your child through their faith journey. 

Timetable for First Eucharist 

NAIDOC Week Mass 

Mrs McGregor and I had the privilege of accompanying three students to the Archdiocese NAIDOC Week Mass and Awards Ceremony at the Cathedral last Friday. The event commenced with a traditional ochre face painting ceremony and a smoking ceremony, grounding us in the rich cultural practices of our First Nations peoples. It was a meaningful celebration of the significant contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in our local community, and a powerful reminder of how schools across our Archdiocese are walking together in the spirit of inclusion and reconciliation.

As a school, we celebrated NAIDOC Week with a reflective liturgy led by our Year 6 Youth Ministry team. It was a meaningful opportunity for our community to come together and honour this significant occasion. Following the liturgy, classes continued their learning by engaging in a range of classroom activities that deepened their understanding of the importance and meaning of NAIDOC Week.

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time - The Parable of the Rich Fool Luke 12:13-21

The book of Ecclesiastes - Qoheleth in Hebrew, meaning, ‘one who calls to assembly’ - surprises and upsets because the author (also called Qoheleth) questions the standard religious mentality of his time: that the good are rewarded and the evil punished. Qoheleth shocks by his pessimism: all is hebel, meaning, vain or empty. Human beings are no better than animals, one who is hardworking is no better than a sluggard; acquiring wisdom and knowledge is like chasing after the wind. Qoheleth’s contribution to religious thought is his willingness to question ready-made ideas and complacent optimism which extol success as the fruit of a well-ordered world. Qoheleth’s restlessness and pessimism are, in the final analysis, but the expression of his anguished cry for what lasts: the Absolute. He desires the Absolute: the One who is not ‘vanity’. 

Qoheleth’s words prepare us for the Gospel teaching about the folly of wealth. “A man’s life is not made secure by what he owns’, Jesus declares. To drive home that message, he tells the parable of a rich man who ‘has it all’ and looks forward to enjoying his wealth. But he dies the very night he makes his great plans. 

The only solution to the inevitability of death is to be ‘rich in the sight of God’. We should consider always what will remain after death. We will be stripped of all material goods, even those legitimately acquired. What remains will only be the quality of our life and how we have made use of our goods, be they much or little. 

Paul understands Christ’s teachings well and declares, ‘Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, not on things that are on earth’ (Colossians 3:2). Life in Christ is the only wealth worth having, a wealth that endures forever. 

From God’s Word, Daily Reflections, 2025

Yours in Christ, 

Andrea McQuirk 

Religious Education Coordinator