School Christmas Food Drive - Grenfell Food Hall

Below is a list of the categories/ items we will be collecting during our final focus week to donate to the Grenfell Food Hall. Please check all item expiry dates extend into 2024.

If you have any questions, please let us know. We thank you in advance for your support!

Year 2/3/4 Class Liturgy

A beautiful class liturgy was prepared and led by Mrs King and the students of Year 2/3/4 on Wednesday. Their chosen theme was ‘forgiveness’ which was linked to their classroom learning this term. The students were well prepared and it was wonderful to see so many parents in attendance. Thank you to everyone who could join us for this very special liturgy.

Year Six Graduation Mass

Advent Prayer

Advent God,

Show us the way to be a light to all in need.

Help us to live and be God’s Dream of hope, peace, joy and love for all people.

As we wait and anticipate the birth of Jesus, come to us and fill our hearts with hope.

This we ask through Jesus Christ the light of the world.

Amen.

Sunday Gospel Reflection (December 3)

Gospel Matthew 13:33-37

Every year provides wake-up calls for those of us on the journey of faith. The people and things we previously may have taken for granted and the ways in which we may have “fallen asleep” to the important things in life, all can come to light at different times of the year.

In the Sunday Gospel, the first for the season of Advent, there is a call to “wake up!” Jesus knows that in our human fragility and forgetfulness, and our tendency towards complacency, we are in constant need of remembering. The central words of the consecration we hear every Sunday at Mass are testament to this - “Do this in memory of me”. Heading into Advent, we must not be found to be asleep”.

As we enter this beautiful season, we can ask ourselves: Are we preparing our hearts to receive Jesus in a deeper way? Will he find us “asleep” caught up in the temporal, material, cultural or will he find us ready, waiting with open hearts to receive yet again the gifts he wishes to lavish upon us, his beloved children?

God our Father,

May we be blessed as we come to know Christ

in our own and others’ hunger and thirst, nakedness, illness or homelessness.

We ask this through the Son of Man, who comes in glory.

Amen.

Source: Formed in Prayer, CSYMI

Student Prayer of the Week

Thank You

We would like to extend a very special “thanks” to our parent volunteers who generously donated their time to assist with preparations for the upcoming Year Six Graduation Mass.

Yours in Faith,

Danielle McFarlane

Religious Education Coordinator

Parish News

Sunday 8 am

St Joseph’s Church, Grenfell

Please note that a Mass will be held on the second and fourth Sunday of each month. There is a Celebration of the Word with Holy Communion, not a Mass, on the first and third (and any fifth) Sunday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend!

If you wish to visit St Joseph’s Church, it is open daily from 10.00am – 4.00pm and following Mass on Sundays.

Christmas Timetable Mass Times

Saturday 23rd Dec: - Young Vigil  - 6.00pm

(Weekend Masses)     - Boorowa Vigil - 6.00pm

                                - Grenfell Vigil - 6.00pm

Sunday 24th Dec:    - Young Mass - 10.00am