Catholic Education Week was once again an action packed week. From a Diocesan mass in Cairns for the school captains, a Southern Deanery mass in Innisfail for the Year 5 and 6 classes and a liturgy at St Clare’s Church for our Preps to Year 4s, the celebrations lasted all week. Our Year 5 and 6 children thoroughly enjoyed their taster sessions at Good Counsel College, experiencing LOTE, HPE, Food Technology and Design Technology, just to name a few classes. The highlight of the week, across the diocese, was welcoming Andrew Chinn into each school to conduct workshops and entertain the students with his musical talent.

After a much awaited period of time and many diocesan prayers, a new bishop has been appointed to the Cairns Diocese. Reverend Joe Caddy will be ordained at St Monica’s Cathedral in Cairns on Thursday August 15 at 6pm. Due to extremely limited seating, each parish and school has been offered a small number of seats to attend the mass in Cairns. To allow for full parish participation, the ordination will be live streamed from a number of locations, including St Clare’s Church in Tully. Please refer to the letter attached to this newsletter for up to date information from the Diocese of Cairns.

Mary Mackillop’s Feast Day falls on next Thursday August 8. As Australia’s first patron saint, a significant part of Mary’s life was spent founding schools for the poor and underprivileged (with the support of Fr Julian Tenison-Woods). Mary’s life did not always run smoothly, and she was ex-communicated at one point after a misunderstanding. In the face of opposition, Mary stayed true to her beliefs and held steadfast in her forgiveness during this trial and was eventually reinstated. It was in 2010 that she was canonised by Pope Benedict XVI. As the only Australian saint, Mary’s Feast Day is an important day in the Catholic Church calendar.

Catholic Education Week Colouring Competition Winners 

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Our Term 2 Star Class winners, Year 5, celebrated with a class party last week complete with snacks and the movie ‘Puss In Boots’. Well done Year 5!

With Blessings,

Term 3 Assemblies

 

Week 4	No Assembly Circus Workshop
Week 5	Year 4
Week 6	No Assembly Science Day
Week 7	Prep
Week 8	No Assembly Pupil Free Day
Week 9	Year 3
Week 10	Year 1