Term 1 Week 8
LET US PRAY
Heavenly Father,
As we enter another week of our Lenten journey, guide us on the path that leads to you. Fill our hearts with gratitude, patience, strength, and peace as we strive to become the-best-version-of-ourselves. Let us hear your voice in the deepest reaches of our heart. Give us rest in you. Help us to accept others, showing them of your great love. Remind us with your guiding hand that when we need comfort, solitude, wisdom, or guidance, we can always turn to you. Help us live a Lent focused on freedom, generosity, and encounter.
Give us hearts hungry to serve you and those who need what we have to give. Stay with us through the busy days leading to the celebration of your resurrection and may Your light guide each day, and your spirit bring us peace. Amen.
Confirmation Reflection Day
Our confirmation students as part of their preparations will participate in a reflection day on Monday 24th March organised by their teachers. During the day the students will pray, listen to scripture, explore the gifts of the Holy Spirit and write a letter to their sponsor. Thank you to their teachers for organising this day for the students.
Please continue to keep the following students in your prayers as they prepare for the Sacrament of Confirmation next Friday, 28th March.
5/6F – Piper, Daniel, Xavier, Emily Alana, Yenaya, Damon, Lucas, Mia, Ava, Xavier
5/6T – Luca, Charlie, Anabelle, Oliver, Jack, Miller, Louis, Mason, Natasha, Liliana, Isla, Liam, Rose
5/6M- Jai, Reizo, Mila, Arian, Karlo, Alanna, Milla, Antonio, Kobe, Mason, Emma
Final Confirmation Presentation Mass
If you have not attended a previous presentation mass for your child celebrating their Confirmation, please take the opportunity to attend this weekend as this is the final weekend. Fr Ananda calls the children forward to the front of the church and blesses them.
Invitation: Stations of the Cross Wednesday 2nd April.
Please join us for prayer as we head into holy week and Easter during the holidays. This will be an opportunity to reflect on the most holy time of the year for all Christians.
PROJECT COMPASSION – Caritas Boxes
Project Compassion is a way of saying that we have been called and chosen and sent to love and serve those in need. We can do this by our actions, that is in service to others. Project Compassion highlights our theme Make a difference…. Anchored in Hope. Your contribution changes the lives in most need. Thank you for continuing to support of this project.
Jubilee Year
The logo shows four stylized figures, representing all of humanity, coming from the four corners of the earth. They embrace each other to indicate the solidarity and fraternity which should unite all peoples. The figure at the front is holding onto the cross. It is not only the sign of the faith which this lead figure embraces, but also of hope, which can never be abandoned, because we are always in need of hope, especially in our moments of greatest need. There are the rough waves under the figures, symbolising the fact that life’s pilgrimage does not always go smoothly in calm waters. Often the circumstances of daily life and events in the wider world require a greater call to hope. That’s why we should pay special attention to the lower part of the cross which has been elongated and turned into the shape of an anchor which is let down into the waves. The anchor is well known as a symbol of hope. In maritime jargon the ‘anchor of hope’ refers to the reserve anchor used by vessels involved in emergency manoeuvres to stabilise the ship during storms. It is worth noting that the image illustrates the pilgrim’s journey not as an individual undertaking, but rather as something communal, marked by an increasing dynamism leading one ever closer to the cross. The cross in the logo is by no means static, but it is also dynamic. It bends down towards humanity, not leaving human beings alone, but stretching out to them to offer the certainty of its presence and the security of hope. At the bottom of the logo is the motto of the 2025 Jubilee Year: Peregrinantes in Spem (Pilgrims in hope), represented in green letters.
