From the Chaplains

I want to both invite and encourage you to come along and share Holy Communion fortnightly on Friday mornings during Week A at 7.30am in the War Memorial Chapel.

Everyone is welcome including students, staff, parents and carers. Junior School students can also come along if they’re accompanied by a parent or a carer.

This is a time where we come together and pray for the Pymble community and the wider world, as a whole community. Through our prayer and our sharing of the Sacrament of Holy Communion we will collectively bring the joy and sadness of the whole community before God, as acts of compassion, solidarity, lament and thanksgiving. 

There will be no expectation that you speak, but if you want to you will be invited to share the prayers on your heart. There will also be silence, and sometimes gentle music, because as we acknowledge that often the deepest prayers of our heart don’t always need words or alternatively can’t be fully expressed through language.

There will also be no expectation that your share the eating and drinking of the Sacrament. In the Uniting Church we often practice an Open Table for Holy Communion. We believe that it is Jesus that invites people to the table and therefore everyone who wishes to receive the sacrament may do so, regardless of age or understanding. It is up to the individual to choose how they respond to Jesus’ invitation.

You can share the Sacrament.

You can choose to receive a blessing.

Alternatively, you are welcome to just come along and sit in the space, if this is what you need.

Just know that this is a space for you as part of the broader community, and therefore, for all of us.

We will gather for no more than 30 minutes each week, and you are welcome to come each time, or just whenever you can.

See you there!

Reverend Danielle Hemsworth-Smith

College Chaplain