Catholic Life and Reflection
What Students are Learning About
Year Six Service Outreach
Our focus for Year Six is 'acts of service'. There's an enthusiastic group of Year 6 girls that love to do crochet and craft, and are keen to vounteer in the community. You may have seen them at the fete where they sold their creations and donated to Save the Children Gaza appeal.
They are hoping to work with eldery people or people who live with disabilities.
If you have any suggestions of where they should go, please contact stephanie.stewart@cg.catholic.edu.au
Saint of the Week by Felicity Baulch
St Rose was born into this world on the 20th of April in 1587. Little did she know she would be known for her kindness and beautifulness.
St Rose would do a thing called penances. She would do these to remind herself of Jesus' sacrifice. St Rose would do things like burning her face and hands, and once she put a heavy silver crown onto her head. One of the crown's spikes engraved into her head and was removed with considerable difficulty.
Her miracles to become a saint include:
- After her death she smelt like roses.
- Roses started falling in the city she was living in.
St Rose would invite the hungry, poor or sick children into her room and help them. I choose her as my saint because she was striking in her kindness.
Catholic Life and Reflection
I saw a little flower fairy growing in our garden a few weeks ago!
At St John’s we pride ourselves on growth, I am not sure this is exactly what we are talking about but I do love seeing our future students playing at school, especially when in the background is a symbol that they will become so familiar with, the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
We have had several visitors and new inclusion staff in the past week or so. Each one has commented in different ways on how welcoming and loving our community is. How they can see it in our inclusion support, our artwork and mostly in our students and staff. The charism of the MSC’s is both easy and challenging, to be on earth the heart of God.
It is a commitment to each day building God’s kingdom. Some days this is a large gesture like raising money for the poor. On other days it is as simple as getting down low and taking a photo of a small fairy in the garden and chatting to the family.
John 13:34-37
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’
God bless,
Stephanie Stewart, Religious Education Coordinator