Religious Education
Sacrament of First Reconciliation 2025
Attention: Families with Students in Grade 3 and above in 2025
Our program for the Sacrament of First Reconciliation begins early in Term 1, 2025. If your child is Baptised and will be in Grade 3 or above in 2025, and you would like them to receive the Sacrament of First Reconciliation, we invite you to contact Liz via email: Warragul.sacraments@cdsale.org.au or phone: 5623 1642.
An Information Meeting was held on Thursday 6th February with guest speaker, Rev. Dr. Fr. Elio Capra, SDB. At this meeting, information packs were handed out, containing enrolment forms, and outlining the events and details concerning this wonderful upcoming Sacrament.
A message from Deacon Mark
Blessed in the Kingdom
Jesus further clarifies (Lk 6:17, 20-26) the Kingdom of God in the “Beatitudes”. Again, he reveals the Kingdom to be quite the reverse of what society often insists we value, the “many in our day who purport to be dispensers of happiness: they come and promise us swift success, great profits within our reach, magical solutions to every problem and so on”. [Pope Francis, 17th February 2019]
Most of us, by the standards of any age, are relatively wealthy, full, laughing and in good social standing but, listening closely to Jesus’ teaching in the Beatitudes, we hear him instead proclaiming blessed those who are poor, hungry, displaced, excluded, barred, and persecuted. Not us! In honesty we are closer to those he warns in “the woes”, those who are having their consolation now: we have our fill now, we have every reason to laugh now, and we’re spoken of well now. Australians, in common with the rest of the globe, have issues, but still, we are very blessed and fortunate people who should squirm a little hearing this proclamation. So, how do we respond in the light of this gospel teaching?
Pope Francis suggests the “woe to you” statements are addressed to those who are doing well today, with the purpose of “waking” them from the dangerous deceit of egotism, and opening them up to the logic of love, while they still have the time to do so. [Pope Francis 17/02/19]
We can be rightly proud of and enjoy our largely free, well-nourished, and safe society but Jesus opens our eyes to a wider reality of pro-active closeness to the poor, suffering and hungry, not idolising or selling our souls out to worldly goods or distractions but able to share them with our brothers and sisters.
Deacon Mark Kelly