RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
First Eucharist
The Sacrament of First Eucharist will be celebrated at Holy Trinity, Curtin, on Saturday 20th September and Sunday 21st September 2025.
Thank you to the First Eucharist candidates who attended Mass on the weekend to be presented to the Parish community. It was a great opportunity to connect the Sacrament with the members of the Parish, allowing them to keep your children in their prayers during this special time.
In Week 8 the students will attend a Retreat Day at Holy Trinity for further preparation. Please keep an eye out for a COMPASS note over the coming days.
Timetable for First Eucharist
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RECONCILIATION |
As part of the program of preparation please take your child to the Sacrament of Reconciliation before First Eucharist, 5-5.30pm any Saturday, Holy Trinity Church. |
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RETREAT DAY (incl. practise for the children): |
9.15am-2.15pm Friday 12th September 2025 Holy Trinity Primary School |
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CELEBRATION OF FIRST EUCHARIST: |
Please nominate a weekend Parish Mass to celebrate your child’s First Eucharist using the ‘Google Documents’ link available early September from the school and Parish Office Saturday 20th September 6:00pm Sunday 21st September 9:30am Sunday 21st September 5:30pm |
Catholic Inquiry program – An Invitation …
Sometimes people wonder about what Catholics believe and how they live their faith. Sometimes they feel shy about asking these questions. At Holy Trinity Church we are starting an inquiry group for people who are not Catholic but who are searching for answers. This inquiry group will start on Tuesday 19th August 7.30pm in the Parish Centre and will go for 4 weeks. This opportunity may be for you, or someone you know, and may pave the way to the Rite of Christian Initiation Adults (RCIA) program. For further information, please contact Peter at the Parish Office 0459 394 813
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Jesus at a Pharisee’s House Luke 14:1, 7-14
A wedding banquet is an ideal opportunity to strengthen bonds of friendship, family ties, and neighbourliness. Jesus is certainly not opposed to inviting friends and relatives on such occasions. What is to be avoided is selfishness which excludes less fortunate people and invites only those who can ‘pay back’ the invitation in some way.
Jesus urges his audience to extend their hospitality to new groups: the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind. These are the people who are on the fringes of, or outside the village community. People must go beyond the bounds of kinship and close alliance.
The kingdom is not reserved to a select few. God prepares his banquet for everyone: the just and the sinners, the good and the bad, the learned and the uneducated, those on the margins and those rejected and scorned by society.
In the end, the kingdom of Heaven is the only banquet that counts. To miss out on that banquet is the greatest tragedy that can happen to anyone. The people at the margins of society have a powerful patron: God. To include them in a table fellowship here on earth is to ensure oneself a place of honour in Heaven.
From God’s Word, Daily Reflections, 2025
Yours in Christ,
Andrea McQuirk
Religious Education Coordinator