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Reconciliation

This Friday 27^th September is the last day to register your child for Reconciliation if you have not already done so. Please note the following dates for your calendar:

• Friday 27 September – last day to register for the sacrament

Commitment Masses (attend one)

• Saturday 19 October 6pm
• Sunday 20 October 10am
• Saturday 26 October 6pm
• Sunday 27 October 10am

Parent Formation Night

• Thursday 31 October 7:30pm

Year 3 Reconciliation Retreat Day

• Tuesday 5 November

Celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation

• Thursday 28 November 6:30pm

Welcome Fr Andrew

Welcome! Next weekend we welcome Fr Andrew Lotton into our parish community. Fr Andrew was born in Canberra in 1963. While he spent most of his formative years in Canberra he has also lived in London, Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin, Broome, Adelaide and Perth. Fr Andrew has worked in the public service, was a lay brother in the Society of the Sacred Mission, an Anglican religious community and with Consular sections of both the British and the South African High Commissions. However, inspired by the preaching of the Neo Catechumenal Way he saw a need to bring sacraments to the people and felt God was calling him to the priesthood.

As he had been baptised Anglican he went through a period of discernment to determine whether that calling was for the Anglican or the Catholic Church. He was received into full communion with the Catholic Church in 1995 but it was not until 1999 that he entered the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Perth. After leaving the seminary and returning to Canberra in 2004, Fr Andrew again responded to God’s Call and re-entered the seminary in 2006.

Fr Andrew was ordained to the Priesthood on 5 June 2009 for the Archdiocese of Perth, WA. He first ministered in the Perth Parish in Kelmscott WA for several years. Then he was in mission with the Neo Catechumenal Way in Adelaide and the Diocese of Wilcannia/Forbes but returned to Canberra in 2016 to care for his ageing parents. He has ministered in Weston Creek, the Cathedral and Charnwood Parishes and we extend a warm and heartfelt welcome to his new home of Corpus Christi Parish.

No Class Mass this Friday 27^th September

End of Term Prayer

We thank you Lord, for this term.

For the challenges, the successes, and the mistakes from which we have learnt.

Be with us as we spend our time with family and friends.

Give us strength and courage to do what is right: to be witnesses of our faith.

Help us to be a practical Christian these holidays, to appreciate what others do for us,

to give time and effort to help others, to be peacemakers in our family.

Keep us safe in our activities; give us good rest and good fun.

Bring us back refreshed and ready for a new term.

We thank you for our classmates, teachers, parents and a community that cares for us.

May we always be conscious of you in our lives.

Amen