Religious Education News
Mini Vinnies – Footy Colours Day and House Challenge
Today our Mini Vinnies representatives from Year 5/6 led a mini fund-raiser to coincide with Footy Colours Day. This fundraiser is a national fundraising campaign that helps kids with cancer. Footy Colours Day is a fun and easy way to bring our school community together while teaching our students the importance of helping others by raising much needed funds for this foundation. The whole school enjoyed a great day of fun with their ‘Wacky Welays’ House Challenge and guessing the dots on the footy jumper competition.
FATHER'S DAY
Blessing Prayer for Fathers
Lord God, who is Father of all,
send your blessing down on these men who are fathers.
For those who in the night worry for their child,
grant them your comfort.
For those who in the day work and struggle to provide for their child,
send them your strength.
For those who mourn a child,
hold them in your love.
For those who play, laugh, sing and dance with their child,
you share in their joy.
Lord God, who is Father of all,
walk with these fathers, in the light times and the dark.
Bless them, and may they each be a living symbol of your fatherly love:
a symbol to their children and all who they encounter.
We make this prayer through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Readings this Weekend – Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time A
GOSPEL: Matthew 18:15-20
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2018%3A15-20&version=NIV
Find ways to win others over; prayer shall be answered.
Living the Gospel
Jesus teaches us that those who do not love their neighbour as they should are to be treated with dignity and respect and offered every opportunity to seek forgiveness.
The challenge and hallmark of the Christian life is the way in which we live out God’s love and forgiveness. The love and forgiveness of God does not mean that ‘anything goes’. It is a love that calls for constant conversion. We can witness to it only to the degree that we have experienced it, from God, from others, and in the way we love and forgive ourselves.
It can sometimes be very difficult when we feel that someone has hurt us to go and speak to them about how we are feeling. It is so much easier to revel in our hurt or seek payback. We feel that we might ruin a friendship. But a hurt that goes unaddressed will continue and will probably be repeated. This week’s gospel reminds us of the need to challenge others when they hurt us but it also reminds us that when we have hurt others we need to be challenged about it and called to account for our actions.
(Excerpts taken from Richard Leonard Reflections).
Thought of the Week
Wishing everybody a wonderful weekend.
God bless,
Donna Wade