RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS

God our Father, you made the family a community of love.
Bless our fathers as they follow your Son, Jesus.
Let their faith, hope, and love shine in our families,
and show us the way to you.
Strengthen our fathers as they
serve our families and communities.

On Thursday 31 September,  we celebrated a beautiful Father’s Day liturgy with our dads in the Santa Sabina Chapel. Father’s Day gives us an opportunity to recall and affirm the particular gifts that fathers bring to families. This includes our personal fathers, grandfathers, uncles and important father figures.  We hope all the dads, grandfathers, uncles and caregivers enjoyed a wonderful day.

In the words of Genevieve Loyd Jones, one of our Year 4 students,

Having a dad is a great privilege. What I love about my dad is that he comforts me and helps me with my schoolwork and my sports. So sometimes I get angry or sad but my dad always finds a way to cheer me up. I love going camping with my dad. He helps with the tents and makes a big fire to roast marshmallows. My dad is spectacular at cooking. He makes the best spaghetti bolognese in the world. It’s always good to have someone to trust and love. My dad is amazing, he has sacrificed a lot for me and he works nonstop to help me get a better education and helps me be a better person. So these are some amazing facts about my dad.

Sacramental Program of First Communion

In the sacrament of Holy Communion, we remember what Jesus did for us in his life, death and resurrection. We remember particularly the Last Supper, that final meal Jesus shared with his disciples. At that meal, Jesus gave us the Eucharist so that we could remember him in a special way. When we receive Communion, we believe that we receive the person of Jesus into our very beings. We become one with him, and we become one with each other. As a community, we become ‘the body of Christ’

 We pray for our students who have received the Sacrament of First Communion during the last few weeks or will be receiving the sacrament very soon.

Tina Nicotina
Religious Education Coordinator P-6
Acting Co-Assistant to the Head of Primary Campus P-4 and Year 3 teacher