Religious Education Update

Holy Week

Today, the Del Monte community came together to commemorate Holy Week by participating in a Holy Week Liturgy. It combined prayer, song, actions, listening and silence to reflect on the final days of Jesus’ life, his suffering and death. The prayerful reflection engaged students in key events of Holy Week in different ways. Classes solemnly recalled Jesus’ crucifixion on Good Friday with a grade liturgy in the Del Monte chapel through prayer and song.

Holy Week leads us to the most important feast in the Church’s year – the Easter celebration of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. By dying on the cross, Jesus reconciled the world to God and offered the gift of eternal life to all. 

Del Monte students will celebrate Easter in a liturgy on Thursday 4 April at 2:30 pm. All parents are welcome. There will be no awards given out at this gathering.

Project Compassion

Thank you again to everyone who has supported the Project Compassion appeal. Your donations will make a difference to the lives of others. By putting compassion into action, we can make a difference today, For All Future Generations.

Please return all Project Compassion boxes and envelopes to the school office by Friday 12 April or donate online via the Caritas website at lent.caritas.org.au.

Anzac Day

This year Anzac Day – Thursday 25 April – falls during the school holidays. You may want to share a prayer with your family to mark Anzac Day.

God of love and liberty, we bring our thanks this day for the peace and security we enjoy,

which was won for us through the courage and devotion of those who gave their lives in times of war.

We pray that their labour and sacrifice may not be in vain, but that their spirit may live on in us and in generations to come.

That the liberty, truth and justice which they sought to preserve may be seen and known in all the nations upon earth.

This we pray in the name of the one who gave his life for the sake of the world, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Blessings

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and blessed Easter break. May your hearts be filled with hope, peace, and love as we remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

Happy Easter!

Tina Nicotina
Religious Education Coordinator P-6