Confirmation

Our Confirmation candidates have been working very hard in their preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation. Each session they come prepared and have participated in great dialogue and sharing of ideas. This is a great group of children who are committed to their faith. We thank the children and their parents for the commitment they have displayed during this preparation.

We have one more lesson this week (Tuesday) and will meet again next Wednesday, 11^th August for our Preparation Day. The children will spend the day going through the important procedures of receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation and completing our booklets.

The children will come to school out of uniform and bring their own Recess and Lunch.

This preparation has had to face many hurdles due to the COVID restrictions. Archbishop Christopher Prowse has advised he has had to cancel his participation in our Confirmation celebrations this year, in light of the current and uncertain circumstances. Fr George has been given authority to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation. Two Confirmation Masses will take place on Saturday 14^th August – 3pm and 5pm. Due to restriction numbers, each Candidate may have five guests to celebrate with them. We thank Father George for all his assistance and guidance during this Sacramental preparation and for the difficult decisions he has had to make.

We thank everyone for their patience and support.

Year 1/2 Religion News

In Religion we have been studying God‘s creation and why we should look after our world.

We had to draw our favourite images of God‘s creation and explain why we liked the image we drew.

After this we visited the Year 5/6 class and interviewed the children about their favourite part of God‘s creation and why they chose what they did.

We compared responses and discussed how our responses were similar or different.

We enjoyed working with the Year 5/6 children and they said our work was excellent.

By Year 1/2

 Feast of St Mary of the Cross – 8^th August

On Sunday we celebrate the Feast Day of St Mary Mackillop – Mary of the Cross. Mary is Australia’s only saint and on Friday in our School Mass Year One/Two will honour her. St Mary of the Cross devoted her life to God and to the service of others.

Mary’s devoted faith, her determination to provide an education for everyone and her sense of justice and fairness for all make her a wonderful role model for us all to follow. One of our Confirmation Candidates has chosen Mary as the Saint they aspire to.

       Mary’s motto was ‘never see a need without doing something about it’.

May we all be inspired by the good deeds of St Mary of the Cross.

Kate Howe

REC