Class Visits with Fr Joby

Thank you to Fr Joby who will be spending time with each of our classes over the next 2 days while they visit the church. This is a great opportunity for our students to get to know Fr Joby a little better and have the freedom to find answers to any questions that they may have about our church and its practices.

Opening Mass

Our first official liturgical event of the year will be held in St Clare’s Church on Wednesday February 12 at 9am. We will gather in the church as a whole school community and our Year 6 children will receive their School Leader badges on this day. All families are welcome to join us for mass, and afterwards, families are invited to stay for morning tea, while the students will return back to class. If you plan on staying for morning tea, it would be wonderful if you could drop off a plate to share at the tuckshop before mass.

Jubilee Year - Pilgrims of Hope

A Jubilee is a special year of grace and conversion, involving prayer, pilgrimage and sacramental repentance, held every 25 years, or during other years as called for by the Pope. Through a series of rituals, acts and commitments, the goal of a Jubilee year is to inspire and encourage holiness of life among the faithful and therefore to strengthen the Church’s witness to God’s loving mercy in and for the world.

The word “jubilee” is derived from the Hebrew word jobel, which means “ram’s horn”; since it was precisely that horn which was used as a trumpet, whose sound indicated to everybody the beginning of the jubilee year.