During the week of May 23 – 27, we celebrate Catholic Schools Week along with all other schools in our Diocese.

St. Kevin’s will begin Catholic Schools Week celebrations with 9.30am Mass on Sunday 22^nd May. All families are warmly invited to attend, especially our Kindergarten families as we welcome our new Kindergarten children and their families into the Parish Community. Thank you to everyone who has RSVP’d, children have been allocated readings and little jobs. We are very excited to be celebrating in our church once again.

Catholic Schools Week will wrap up with Open Classrooms from 2pm on Friday 27^th May. Please come along and see all the wonderful things the children are learning.

The theme of Catholic Schools Week 2022 is Fully Alive which reminds us that we are most alive when we are in touch with our inner selves and can acknowledge deep connections between ourselves, God, others and creation. As communities of faith, we are called to grow in awareness of the life in and around us, to live more fully and not to ‘settle for a bland and mediocre existence’. (Pope Francis, Gaudete Et Exsultate)

During Catholic Schools Week, we celebrate the remarkable work, passion and enthusiasm our Catholic schools exhibit daily. We recognise these places as learning communities who are committed to excellence through the education of the ‘whole child’, providing all round, Christ-centered education that nurtures each student spiritually, intellectually, socially, physically and emotionally. It is this style of education that enables all students to flourish, become passionate life-long learners and the very best versions of themselves.

May we all strive to live in active service of Jesus and His mission as we celebrate together during Catholic Schools Week and always.

A PRAYER OF REFLECTION FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK:

A NEW BEGINNING

Henri Nouwen

We must learn to live each day, each hour, yes, each minute as a new beginning, as a unique opportunity to make everything new. Imagine that we could live each moment as a moment pregnant with new life. Imagine that we could live each day as a day full of promises.

Imagine that we could walk through the new year always listening to the voice saying to us: “I have a gift for you and can’t wait for you to see it!” Imagine.

Is it possible that our imagination can lead us to the truth of our lives? Yes, it can! The problem is that we allow our past, which becomes longer and longer each year, to say to us: “You know it all; you have seen it all, be realistic; the future will just be a repeat of the past. Try to survive it as best you can.”

So, what are we to do? We must open our minds and our hearts to the voice that resounds through the valleys and hills of our life saying: “Let me show you where I live among my people. My name is ‘God-with-you.’ I will wipe all the tears from your eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness. The world of the past has gone” (Revelation 21:2–5).

Pause and reflect on a word or phrase that struck you.

How do you live each day as a ‘gift’ or as a ‘new beginning’?

Let us pray…

That each day we seek to provide the hope and life that the Gospel message offers us. May we empower our children to use their imagination, to see each day as gift, and to recognise God in all things.

Amen.

SACRAMENTAL PROGRAM

The dates and details are still being finalised with Fr Joseph for the children in years 4, 5 and 6 who would like to participate in the sacraments of Confirmation and First Eucharist. My sincere apologies for the delay. I will be in touch via Compass with details as soon as possible.

May God’s Spirit be with you all each day.

Mrs Jasmina Boudan   

Religious Education Coordinator