RE NEWS
Be the Light
'Let Your Light Shine Before Others'
This week our Catholic Church celebrates two special feasts.
Thursday 21 May marks the feast of the Ascension. The Feast of the Ascension is celebrated forty days after Easter Sunday and recalls our Lord’s exaltation by being taken gloriously up into heaven. After Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, Scripture tells us, he was seen for forty days before he ascended into heaven to be “seated at the right hand of God the Father.” You may wish to read the accounts of the ascension of Jesus:
Matthew 28:16-20
Mark 16:19
Luke 24:50-53
Acts 1:9-11
John 14:1-11 (Jesus’ farewell discourse – he prepares our place)
Sunday 24 May marks the feast of Mary Help of Christians
The Blessed Virgin Mary is a beautiful, beloved, essential and pervasive figure in Christian life and in the Church’s calendar, she has been since the early days of the Church. With maternal love for us, Mary wants what is best for us - she wants Jesus for us, so she urges us, “Do whatever he tells you” (John 2:5). Then she helps us as we lead others to know and love her Son too. This feast day not only empowers us to turn to her in prayer, but also to love Jesus and others with a greater love.
School Liturgies
For the remainder of the term, each class will have a special prayer liturgy with our youth minister Tommy. Although we cannot gather together physically as a whole school, we will continue to develop and practise our prayer life within the classes. This week Tommy will lead the Year 6 classes in prayer, focussing on prophecies from the Old Testament.
Stormbirds and Seasons for Growth
Hopefully our lives are beginning to return to some sense of normality following our unprecedented beginning of the year with the devastating bushfires and now the Covid crisis. We are offering two special programmes to assist students who may require extra support:
The Stormbirds programme focusses on growing through natural disaster and the Seasons for Growth programme focusses on dealing with some aspect of change, separation, loss or grief.
Please consider if your child would benefit from participating in either of the programmes and keep a look out for nomination forms later in the term.