{"id":9844,"date":"2024-05-10T13:41:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T03:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/?post_type=article&p=9844"},"modified":"2024-05-10T14:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T04:17:01","slug":"from-the-religious-education-coordinator-66","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/article\/from-the-religious-education-coordinator-66\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Religious Education Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our Church \u2026\u2026<\/i><\/b><\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n

May – The Month of Mary<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

As we begin May we are reminded that this is the month the Church especially remembers Mary, the Mother of God.\u00a0 The following is taken from a resource Mr Anthony Cleary, Director of Mission and Identity for Sydney Catholic Schools, published for schools to use to honour Mary throughout this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>In what ways can Mary be honoured in May?\"\"<\/b><\/p>\n

In what ways can Mary be honoured in May? The ways of honouring Mary are as varied as the people who honour her. The most common way is through praying the Rosary, either at home or in parishes. It is common for parishes to have a daily recitation of the Rosary during May, and many parishes erect a special \u2018May altar\u2019 with a statue or picture of Mary as a reminder of Mary\u2019s month. It\u2019s also traditional to crown a statue of Mary during May \u2013 a custom known as \u2018May Crowning.\u2019 Usually, the crown is made of flowers representing Mary\u2019s beauty and virtue, a reminder how we should strive to imitate Mary\u2019s virtue in our own lives.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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In addition to the Rosary, there are litanies and specific prayers such as the Angelus, the Regina Coeli, the Memorare, the Hail Holy Queen. Readings from Scripture can accompany these prayers, especially from the Gospels and Matthew and Luke relating to Mary\u2019s role in salvation history. Mary\u2019s great prayer of praise and thanksgiving \u2013 the Magnificat \u2013 can also be recited and\/or reflected upon.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Why have devotion to Mary? Because she is Jesus\u2019 mother and hence Mother of God. At the foot of the Cross, Jesus gave Mary to St John to be our spiritual mother, to care for all the followers of Jesus day-in-and-day-out without fail, interceding before the throne of God on our behalf for all our needs. For that, Mary deserves an entire month in her honour.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Mrs Caroline Morizzi, Religious Education Coordinator<\/em><\/i><\/div>\n

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This article on College life meets The Archbishop’s Charter for Catholic Schools – Charter #1, #2<\/p>\n

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This week the Church celebrates Holy Week.\u00a0 In this newsletter we explore the development of this central festival in the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9844","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/9844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=9844"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=9844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}