Confirmation

At the beginning of the year our candidates, along with their parents’ support, expressed their desire to join their Catholic community more fully by receiving the final Sacrament of Initiation, to be confirmed. After pledging their commitment, the candidates and their families have been preparing themselves by learning more about God, the Holy Spirit and also about their faith community.

Yesterday, we celebrated as our St Michael’s students renewed their commitment to Jesus and were confirmed. They have each been revisited and strengthened by the Holy Spirit. They are now ready to use their spiritual gifts to continue helping Jesus to carry out his mission to love and serve God. Congratulations to all our Confirmation Candidates for the way they reverently and faithfully conducted themselves last night.

Thank you to the families, staff, sacramental coordinator Liz Dwyer, Fr Mick and Archbishop Christopher Prowse who have supported the students and have been instrumental in this journey.

Now that these students have been blessed, strengthened, and confirmed by the Holy Spirit we pray:

Loving and faithful God

We ask you to bless our recently confirmed students. May they remain constantly curious in their pursuit of knowledge and truth, may they use their gifts and talents to spread your joy and love throughout the earth and may they inspire and motivate others to know, love and follow Jesus.

Amen.

Fruits of the Holy Spirit – Self Control

This term the students have explored the fruits of Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness and Gentleness. This fortnight, they will begin exploring the fruit of Self Control.  Self-control is about having mastery over one’s own behaviour. At times we feel like being mean and grumpy. Self-control is choosing not to give in to these temptations. Just like all the fruits, self-control needs to be practiced and nurtured. St. John Vianney, preached that “it is by resistance to temptations that we give God proof of our love.”  Giving up something we like can be a sign of our love for God and for others. We pray that the Holy Spirit gives our students the fruit of self-control to guide them in life and to treat others with self-control.

St Michael’s Feast Day

The Feast Day of St Michael is Friday the 29th of September.  St Michael is an Archangel (chief angel) whose name means ‘one who is like God’.  In the Old Testament, Michael came to help Daniel after he had a vision. In the New Testament, Michael led the faithful angels to fight evil. St Michael is seen as a protector of the church. At our school St Michael helps to look after us and to make right choices.

We look forward to celebrating The Feast Day of St Michael with a whole school liturgy on Friday the 27th of September.  All families are most welcome to join us for the liturgy at 9:15am in the church. Following the liturgy, students will be participating in activities to enrich their understanding of St Michael our Archangel who protects us.  In lieu of wearing their uniform, the students are asked to bring in donations to assist with our Christmas Raffles.  Thank you in advance for your generous donations.

Please feel free to contact me for all Religious Education enquiries via my email: erika.tokich@cg.catholic.edu.au