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<\/a>The Church has celebrated Mary\u2019s birth since at least the sixth century. A September birth was chosen because the Eastern Church begins its Church year with September. The September 8 date helped determine the date for the feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8. Scripture does not give an account of Mary\u2019s birth. However, the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James fills in the gap. This work has no historical value, but it does reflect the development of Christian piety. According to this account, Anna and Joachim are infertile but pray for a child. They receive the promise of a child who will advance God\u2019s plan of salvation for the world. Such a story, like many biblical counterparts, stresses the special presence of God in Mary\u2019s life from the beginning.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nSaint Augustine connects Mary\u2019s birth with Jesus\u2019 saving work. He tells the earth to rejoice and shine forth in the light of her birth.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u201cShe is the flower of the field from whom bloomed the precious lily of the valley. Through her birth the nature inherited from our first parents is changed.\u201d <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n We can see every human birth as a call for new hope in the world. The love of two human beings has joined with God in his creative work. The loving parents have shown hope in a world filled with travail. The new child has the potential to be a channel of God\u2019s love and peace to the world. This is all true in a magnificent way in Mary. If Jesus is the perfect expression of God\u2019s love, Mary is the foreshadowing of that love. If Jesus has brought the fullness of salvation, Mary is its dawning.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Taken from:<\/span><\/i> https:\/\/www.franciscanmedia.org\/nativity-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary\/<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n <\/i>Pope John Paul II chose October 19, 2003, as the date for the beatification of Mother Teresa. The ceremony was a celebration for the entire world. Mother Teresa\u2019s life of holiness is respected on a global scale. Her example of humble and loving service is admired by millions of people. The process that led to Mother\u2019s Teresa\u2019s beatification was the shortest in modern history. Ordinarily, the cause for beatification cannot begin until five years after the candidate\u2019s death. However, Pope John Paul II advanced the cause of Mother Teresa soon after her death on September 5, 1997. The pope explained that he was making an exception because of widespread admiration for the tiny nun.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Mother Teresa\u2019s spiritual vitality can be described with these words. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t search for God in faraway lands. He is not there. He is close to you. He is with you. Just keep that lamp burning, and you will always see him.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Last Wednesday we celebrated our Father Daughter Mass and Breakfast at Marist Sisters\u2019 College. It was a morning of celebration and community spirit. Students and their Fathers, Father Figures and Grandfathers celebrated the Eucharist together at Mass and then enjoyed a delicious breakfast with great company and a wonderful view on Cerdon Plaza.<\/span><\/p>\n On Fathers day when we remember what it means to have a father or be a father, we recognise the importance of fathers in our community. Fathers come in many different forms;\u00a0 Fathers who are working day and night to raise children, fathers who took in others’ children through adoption and foster care, fathers who are expecting, but aren’t quite fathers yet, and those fathers who have lost children and must carry on. Fathers who right now have joined God in Heaven and whom we miss dearly here on earth. We pledge as a community to love and nurture the fathers and father figures among us so that they will manifest the love of God in all that they do.<\/span><\/p>\n It was within the family of Mary and Joseph that Jesus grew, he was nurtured and was loved. <\/span>\u00a0Joseph was willing to be there with Jesus in countless experiences that would be lost to history. This encourages us to find St. Joseph as a father and friend in the wonderful ordinariness of our own lives.<\/span><\/p>\n I would like to thank all the teachers, support staff, students and parents that assisted with the mass and to Father Aliki from celebrating the Mass. A huge thank you to <\/span>our parent helpers, support staff and teachers for cooking and serving the breakfast, and to the <\/span>Year 9 PDM students Niamh, Lily, Lola, Alice, Seanna and Mia for taking the photos. <\/span>It was wonderful to see our Marist Sisters College community come together for such a significant event.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n Marists in Action is the MSCW social justice action group that meets Day 1 at Lunchtime in 131.<\/span> The agenda is set by the Social Justice Co-Captains, Amy Davis and Mia Bartram in collaboration with Jenny Vu, Youth Ministry Coordinator, and Samantha Ison, Assistant Religious Education Coordinator prior to the meeting.<\/span> All students are invited to attend the meeting to collaborate on planning initiatives in response to contemporary issues within our community.<\/span><\/p>\n In previous years, MIA have facilitated many initiatives to engage our students in community life such as:<\/span><\/p>\n –<\/span>\u00a0Producing over\u00a08500\u00a0hot meals, salads, fruit kebabs, breakfast boxes, snack packs and care packs\u00a0with empathetic, positive messages, which were distributed to 15 charities around Sydney.\u00a0<\/p>\n – 1800 servings of soup served at a twice weekly soup kitchen.<\/p>\n\n
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The Feast of St Teresa of Calcutta [5<\/b>th<\/b> September]<\/b><\/h5>\n
<\/a>On August 26, 1910, Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia. As a young girl she was very involved in parish activities, and her mother told her many stories of missionaries, who inspired her greatly. In 1928, at age 18, Agnes joined the missionary order of the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin, Ireland. There she was given the name Sister Mary Teresa. As a young Sister in 1929 she travelled to Calcutta (today known as Kolkata), India, to teach at a school for girls. She continued to teach at various schools in India for 20 years. During that time, she was deeply moved by the number of sick and dying people on the streets.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/a><\/i>On September 10, 1946, while travelling by train to Darjeeling, Sister Mary Teresa experienced a \u201ccall within a call.\u201d She felt called to be God\u2019s love in action: to serve the sick and dying, the hungry and homeless. She received permission to leave the Loreto convent. Then she sought medical training and became determined to serve the poorest of the poor.\u00a0 Eventually, she was joined by other women. Some of these women were her former students, and they helped her serve the poor. In 1950 she established an order of religious women called the Missionaries of Charity. Over time the Missionaries of Charity have built centres throughout the world. In 1979 Mother Teresa, as she was known by then, received the Nobel Peace Prize. She captivated the world as few other people have. Her simple message was: \u201cWe are put on earth to do something beautiful for God.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n
\nIn our Community\u2026.<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
Father Daughter Mass<\/b><\/h5>\n
Marists In Action (MIA)<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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Marist Service Hours Initiative<\/b><\/h5>\n