Term 1, Week 6
Kaya and welcome to
week 6.
How good are short
weeks haha. I hope everyone had a fantastic long weekend.
Character
Strength:
This week we are
focusing on "forgiveness."
- At OLC we are focusing on modelling and
observing different character strengths.
- "If we do not strive to forgive and to love, we will not be forgiven and loved either" Pope Francis.
For those students
that will be making their First Eucharist this year, we will be having our
Enrollment Mass this Sunday, 13th March at beginning at 8:30am.
Those candidates and
their families are expected to attend. If you are unable to attend this
mass, please let me know as soon as possible.
We will be
celebrating First Eucharist for our 4DAN candidates on Saturday 26th March at 6pm.
Lent/Ash Wednesday:
We celebrated a
beautiful liturgy on Wednesday and this provided a great opportunity for the
students to reflect on three elements that we are asked to focus on throughout
Lent...to give, pray and fast.
We had a great chat
about how giving can include money to the Project
Compassion box or other charities but also about how this can also be
time...time spent helping others or more around the family home or with those
that we love.
We also discussed how
to pray more...this was an interesting concept for the
students to come to grips with as many said that they don't pray...this
is absolutely fine! I asked them to perhaps say a prayer as simple as thank
you...for their warm bed, clean socks or crunch n sip!
On a larger scale we
can pray for those affected by the floods over east as well as those in Russia
and the Ukraine, the leaders of our community and the world making difficult
decisions every day.
To fast may
be as simple as giving up a favourite food or activity, halving the time spent
gaming or on a device or speaking negative thoughts or fighting with a
sibling...I hope this helps!
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