From the Religious Education Coordinator

From the Religious Education Coordinator

Pentecost

On Sunday 23 May we celebrated the season of Pentecost, the birthday of the Church.The experiences of the early Church are significant to us today. Nothing happens without the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit fills our hearts with love, our souls with grace and our conscience with the truth and right teaching so that we can proclaim Jesus Christ with dignity, authenticity and humility.

Whenever we reach out in genuine love and concern to others, it is then that the Spirit is guiding us; giving us renewed strength.

 

Balay Banaag – House of Hope

At the Staff Spirituality Retreat and Day at the end of Term 1, staff made Rosary beads and wrote a personal note for the members of the Balay Banaag Centre in Davao City, the Philippines.  Balay Banaag – “House of Hope” is a ‘safe place’ for girls at risk. The Centre provides shelter, support, education and an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty for ‘at risk behaviours and abuse of girls between 6 and 18 years of age.’ Balay Banaag offers these girls a future with dignity, hope and independence. The Marist Sisters took over the management of the centre in 2018. The community finds solace and support of their faith in praying the Rosary.

Please find below the email from Sr Lilibeth, Director of the Balay Banaag Centre:

Dear Mary and Marist Sisters’ College Woolwich staff,

The package has finally arrived! Thank you so much for the rosary beads and most especially the notes. The children were very happy to receive it this morning.   I told them that each envelope contains a note of prayer from your staff and they said woooowww… It assures them that whatever difficulty we are experiencing at the moment there are people who pray for us in the center and it means a lot to them. Thank you so much. We are thinking of sharing it with their family members too. Thank you so much.

God bless you all more,

Sr. Lilibeth and Balay Banaag Children

We ask God’s blessings on Sr Lilibeth and all the Balay Banaag community.

As we continue to journey through the season of Easter and the month of May, Pope Francis has invited all the faithful to pray the rosary every day of May to ask for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students and staff continue to gather each day at 2.00pm in the College Chapel to pray a decade of the Rosary throughout the month of May.

Miss Mary Kleist, Religious Education Coordinator

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