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.

First Eucharist Enrolment Mass:
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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