Kaboom Sports Day

Friday 9th August on the small oval beginning at 11.30am. Students can wear their school sports uniform. Parents and families are welcome to come along to spectate and stay for a picnic lunch beginning at 1.00pm. Bring your own chairs, lunch, etc.

The Feast of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop

Our Feast Day celebrations will be held next week. A letter has been sent to families outlining the forthcoming activities celebrating the Feast of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. 

A School Family Mass will be celebrated at Our Lady Help of Christians Church on Saturday 3rd August 2024 at 6.00pm. Students and families are invited to attend. It would be wonderful to see many of our school families at this Parish mass time. Thank you to the students and their families who have taken pn active roles in the mass by being part of the Offertory procession, reading a prayer of the faithful or joining in a school choir. For those at the mass, all children will be invited to join together as a group to sing a special school song.

Our whole school Mass will be celebrated on Thursday 8th August beginning at 9.00am in Allen Hall. A family is invited to be part of the Offertory Procession during our school mass on Thursday 8th August. Please email lprivitera@marymacnarre.catholic.edu.au if your family will be attending the school mass on this day and would like to participate in the Offertory Procession.

Further Feast Day activities are listed on the letter sent to families last week via PAM

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Sunday, August 4, 2024

John 6:24–35
Jesus teaches the crowds that he is the “bread of life.”

This Sunday we continue to read from the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel, but not continuously.

In today’s Gospel, we learn about something else that we need. Last week, we learned that Jesus fed more than 5000 people with just five loaves of bread and two fish. After they ate, the crowds of people followed Jesus and the disciples.

We hear that the people were seeking out Jesus because he had fed them with bread and fish. Jesus tells the people that God will provide a wonderful gift that will satisfy an even more important need. Jesus says that he will give them more bread, but this bread will be an even better gift than the food they have already eaten. The bread that he will give them will permit them to live forever with God in heaven. Jesus says that he will give them the gift of himself, that he is the bread of life. This is the gift that Jesus has given to us in the Eucharist.