CATHOLIC IDENTITY
LITURGICAL CALENDAR INFORMATION
A Liturgical Calendar shows the cycle of seasons in the Catholic Church. The Church year consists of six liturgical seasons: Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time after Pentecost. In each newsletter we aim to highlight different events in the Liturgical Calendar that we might be focusing on or celebrating in our school.
This term we celebrate many feast days that occur in our liturgical calendar. A feast day is a day when we remember and celebrate something or someone important to our faith.
Special celebrations that we focus on during classroom and whole school prayer throughout term 2 and those that come up in our liturgical calendar include:
Week 1
3/5 Project Compassion Fundraiser – Walk for Water
Week 3
12/5 Feast of the Ascension
12/5 Mother’s Day
Week 4
19/5 Feast of Pentecost
Week 5
26/5 Feast of the Trinity
26/5 National Sorry Day
27/5 Reconciliation Week
Week 6
2/6 Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ
5/6 World Environment Day
Week 8
20/6 World Refugee Day
22/6 Feast of St. Thomas More
Week 10
7/7 NAIDOC Week
EASTER
Easter is not just one day! It is a whole season of 50 days of joyful celebration which will last up until the feast of Pentecost. We take even longer to celebrate Easter than we took during Lent to prepare for it. In the early days of the Easter season, our readings from the bible told us about how different people reacted to the wonderful news of the resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of our faith. Our Easter celebration prepares us for the coming of the Holy Spirit, who helps us bring the Good News of Jesus’ resurrection to everyone we meet.
ANZAC DAY
During the holidays we celebrated ANZAC Day. A day when we remember in a special way all Australians and New Zealanders who have died in war. We remember all women and men who served their countries in war, our own relatives and those people whose names we do not know. We remember this history of war, and pray that, in the future, all people will work to make peace not war.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION - COMPASSION
Our theme in Religious Education this term is Compassion.
During staff prayer this week, staff were invited to walk with Jesus in compassion.
Jesus’ entire ministry was marked by this capacity for compassion, and it remains central to our ministry too. As we listened to the Gospel reading, staff were invited to listen for any key words that might connect with them in the reading and for the message that might be there for them that day.
In Religious Education lessons, students in Year 5/6 have started their unit of work by developing a class definition on what they think compassion is. They came up with a list of words to describe compassion, some of which included; loving, caring, kind, common good, beliefs, people and that it included ways of thinking, being and taking action.
As a class group, they came up with the following as a definition for compassion:
‘Compassion is about taking actions that are positive, mature and respectful that show kindness, love and caring actions to one another for the common good.’
ELIZABETH CATHOLIC PARISH SACRAMENT PROGRAM
For those families who have enrolled in the program, please be aware of the following dates:
Confirmation Workshop Session 1
Saturday May 11
9am – 11am
St. Thomas More Church – 19 Laverstock Rd, Elizabeth North.
Confirmation Workshop Session 2
Saturday May 25
9am – 11am
St. Thomas More Church – 19 Laverstock Rd, Elizabeth North.
Reconciliation Workshop Session
Saturday June 15
9am – 11am
St. Thomas More Church – 19 Laverstock Rd, Elizabeth North.
Please contact Melissa Musolino for more information.
Phone: 82556144
Email: mmusolino@smm.catholic.edu.au
OR
Phone: 7285 1500
Email: mmusolino@sttmore.catholic.edu.au
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