Parish Mass

Please see the flyer below about the upcoming Parish Mass celebration on 23rd November at 5:30pm.

This is a wonderful time to gather as a school and parish community to celebrate our faith and connect as a shared community. As there are no combined events in term 4, this will be our chance to come together as a parish and reconnect, share a meal, and celebrate the spirit of our community. We hope to see you there! 

Class Masses

This week we celebrated a Liturgy with Year 2 about the wonders of God’s creation. This experience allowed students to connect their classroom learning about stewardship with a shared opportunity to pray and celebrate as a community.

Class Masses and Liturgies schedule Term 4: 

Kindergarten will be participating in a retreat run by our Year 6 Youth Ministry team in place of a liturgy this term.  It is a great opportunity to connect with the faith through peer ministry in a less formal setting.

All Souls Day - Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son Luke 7: 11-17 

In this month we make time to remember those who have died. We pray for those whom we have loved in life on earth. We pray for those who have loved us. We also remember those who have no one to remember them. I am thinking of a couple of people in particular as I mark this feast, one a friend and one a family member, both are now in God’s kind keeping until the day of resurrection. I miss them. 

This is also a good opportunity to teach children about our Christian confidence in death as the transition to the fullness of life. Children learn most easily with experience. To take children to the graves of friends and family is a sure and certain way to overcome their secular Halloween fears about a cemetery as a spooky place by teaching them about the graveyard as a place of Christian hope. You might teach your children this simple and traditional prayer: Eternal rest grant to them/him/ her/ O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them/ him/ her. May they/ he/ she rest in peace. Amen  

From God’s Word, Daily Reflections, 2025

Yours in Christ, 

Andrea McQuirk 

Religious Education Coordinator