Today all students and teachers participated in a streamed liturgy from Holy Family Church for Ash Wednesday. The liturgy was enriched by our Year 6 Faith Leaders, who prepared 'Lent in a Bag' for every class, to help explain the meaning of Lent for Christians. The items from the bags were also used as the prayer focus for our liturgy. At school we will continue to focus on our Lenten journey for the 40 days (not including Sundays) leading up to Easter.

Before beginning his ministry, Jesus went into the desert to pray. He didn’t eat or drink; he fasted and used the time to focus on his relationship with God. Today, during the 40 days before Easter known as Lent, we too are called to focus on our relationship with God. Catholics do three things to grow closer to God during Lent: pray, fast and give alms to those in need. Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving are the three pillars of Lenten spirituality.

Over the next three weeks we will look at these pillars.

The first pillar of Lent is PRAYER.  We pray to grow in our relationship with God and ask God for guidance on how to live our lives. In our prayer, we also thank God for the gifts we have been given and we pray for those who have less than we do. During Lent, we can make an extra effort to pray each day to become the person God calls us to be.