From the Principal

MSCW Showcase of talents – Starting now! 

Over these last few weeks of the year, our students will take the lead and share their talents through presentation and performance evenings. The first performance on Tuesday evening involved our TDP and Co-Curricular students. It highlighted a remarkable standard, high proficiency and wide array of dance, instruments and voice. Next Monday 4 November, we host the Newman Symposium, which showcases our Gifted and Talented Program, as well as our HSC and Year 7 – 11 student works in Creative Arts, Performing Arts and TAS. I look forward to seeing our student performances and projects as well as seeing parents on the night. 

Advent: the Christmas Journey has begun

This weekend, at Parish Masses, and as a College community within our global Catholic community, we begin our Advent journey. You will observe that the colour purple appears in church ceremonies signifying a time of change. This change begins a new year in the Churches’ liturgical calendar and is one of the key Church seasons. It is an exciting church season as it prepares us all to celebrate the birth of Christ. It is a time when we are invited to learn how to ‘wait patiently and hopefully’ for the coming of the Lord. The temptation is to eliminate Advent and move directly to Christmas, because we are impatient. In today’s modern society, advertising  and commercial sales appear to promote instant gratification as well as spending or buying – often missing the real Christmas message. So, to balance and counter the trend, let’s unpack our family Nativity scenes, practice patience and invite the Holy Spirit into our homes as we prepare for the coming of the Lord.

Advent Prayer