Opening School Mass

It was a special experience to hold our Opening School Mass in our School amphitheatre on Friday. There was a lovely feeling as we set our sacred space to celebrate this open air Mass. Our theme “Many hands, One heart’ featured throughout the Mass as we reflected how at St Patrick’s we all support each other to help grow and expand the heart of our wonderful school.

Congratulations to our School Captains, Year Six Leaders, SRC Members and our new students who were presented with their badges and welcome bookmarks during the Mass.

Thank you to all who assisted to make this event possible, especially to Father Namora for making himself available.

Altar Serving

Thank you to our Altar Servers and their families for continuing their duties throughout the school holidays. I know sometimes it can be challenging when people are away on vacation to uphold their commitments, but we are very grateful that Father was supported at weekend Mass. Thank you to those who just stepped in when there was a need. Your efforts do not go unnoticed.

A big congratulations to those new Altar Servers who served for the first time in the holidays. Thank you to our students from last year’s Year 6 who continued in this ministry to help train their siblings to become more confident in the role of an Altar Server.

New Cross 

We have purchased a beautiful cross to hang in our new entrance space.

These beautifully painted and hand-carved crosses come from the families in La Palma, El Salvador. The crosses from El Salvador are carved by the men and hand-painted and finished off by the woman in La Palma. They are intricately designed and truly unique. 

We thank our previous gardener Jose Matos for his generous donation to the school which was used to purchase our very special cross.

Kate Howe

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