Grandparents’ Day- Save the Date!

A warm welcome is extended to all our Grandparents and Special Friends to visit our school on Friday June 7, from 9:00am-11:30am. Guaranteed to provide hours of hugs, smiles and cuddles for all!

Invitations and timetable of activities will come home next week.

Sacramental of First Eucharist

Please keep all the students and their families enrolled in the program in your prayers as they journey through this special time. If you have not attended a commitment mass yet –a reminder that you do need to do so- and hand the commitment card to Fr Loi or Fr Johny.

The students enrolled also need to attend the Sacrament of Reconciliation again before making their first Holy Communion. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at St Monica's Church every Saturday from 4.30pm - 5.30pm and at St Michael's Church every Sunday from 4.30pm - 5.15pm.

May- the month of Mary- a little information taken from the Passionists (religious order) Website: http://www.cptryon.org/compassion/mary/mother.html

Her name was Mary, a form of the name Miriam, the famous sister of Moses. The name was common among Jewish women in those days. A well-known tradition says she was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of Joachim and Ann. Other early sources say Mary was born in Nazareth.  Wherever she was born, Mary's life most likely unfolded in the staunch Jewish settlement of Nazareth in the hills of Galilee, not far from the important caravan routes linking Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Mary was a woman of rural Galilee. She lived as they did, in a small family house of stone and mud-brick. She worked like any young girl, grinding wheat and barley into flour, preparing dishes of beans, vegetables, eggs, fruits, nuts, and occasional chunks of mutton. Wool had to be made into clothing. The bread had to be baked. A few chickens and a donkey had to be fed. And in the village, small as it was, there were always little children to care for. Almost daily she carried a large jar of water from the town well for washing and cooking (the well still supplies modern Nazareth today and is called "Mary's Well"). Early on, the Jews found that cleanliness prevented disease, so frequent washing -- an important chore of women -- became part of their religious practice. The well also was a favourite spot where women talked and traded bits of everyday news.