By Mrs Carol Sharp, APRE

Mothers’ Day Mass

A big thank you to all the students and staff who helped to make our annual Mothers’ Day Mass a big success. We hope that all the Mums, grandparents and caregivers who attended felt welcome and appreciated. Well done to our students for their behaviour during mass and for their participation – especially considering the minor technical hitch we faced during the service. It was great to see our singers step up to the microphone and lead the responses for everyone while the technical issue was being fixed. Great initiative and leadership!

                              
Zonta – Birthing Kit Foundation

On Saturday, May 11, a group of students and staff donated their morning to help the Zonta Club of Warwick in their annual ‘Birthing Kit Assembly Day.’ According to the Birthing Kit Foundation, the purpose of this day is to organise essential items for pregnant women and newborns so that a clean and safe birthing environment can be maintained.

‘Around 300,000 women and 3 million newborns die each year from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.  Most of these deaths occur in developing countries. To help address this, we provide an opportunity for Australian volunteers to fundraise for and engage in the assembly of Birthing Kits.

We partner with local organisations and health service providers that work in low-resource and emergency settings to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes. We donate Birthing Kits to approved organisations for distribution to pregnant women and maternal healthcare providers to help enable a safe and cleaner birthing environment. We also provide funding for collaborative and sustainable community development projects, supported by research and advocacy, for improved maternal and newborn outcomes.’

For more information, please visit: https://www.bkfa.org.au/

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the students and staff for giving up their Saturday morning to contribute to this worthy cause. May their efforts inspire others to take advantage of the many opportunities to contribute and grow in their understanding of what justice truly is.

Prayer

May 27 – June 3 is National Reconciliation Week. During this week we are reminded that reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in Australia is an ongoing process that requires the healing power of forgiveness. It is important not to just ask for forgiveness but to be forgiving of others when they have wronged us. This is a difficult, but very rewarding process and we pray that we may be moved by the Holy Spirit to engage with this process.

Aboriginal Our Father
You are Our Father, you live in heaven
We talk to you, Father you are good (repeat)

We believe your Word Father
We your children, give us bread today (repeat)

We have done wrong, we are sorry
Help us Father not to sin again (repeat)

Others have done wrong to us
And we are sorry for them, Father today (repeat)

Stop us from doing wrong, Father
Save us all from the evil one (repeat)

You are Our Father, you live in heaven
We talk to you, Father you are good (repeat)

The Lord’s Prayer from the "Miss Kimberley"