Staff Faith Formation - Staff Development Day

Faith is at the heart of our community and the staff appreciated the opportunity to nurture theirs this week. The staff were fortunate to take time on Monday at the annual Staff Spirituality Day to reflect on relationships with one another, and to spend valuable time nurturing our personal faith development. We enjoyed such a gorgeous morning walking around the lake to admire God’s handiwork, which was followed by Mass, reflection, time to focus on the role models of Mary MacKillop and St Maximillian Kole and prayer.

Altar server training

We will be recommencing the training for altar servers again next week. Many students expressed an interest but few notes were received. If you wish your child to be trained and they have received the Sacrament of First Eucharist they are eligible. Please email Mrs Collins to express interest at jacqueline.collins@cg.catholic.edu.au as soon as possible.

Confirmation congratulations

Congratulations are extended to the Year 6 and 7 candidates who celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation at the end of Term 2. 

An enormous thank you to the amazing volunteers who offered and were available to assist with the stole making. Your generosity is so very appreciated. Thanks are also extended to the French Hot Bread for donating the bread for retreat and the cupcakes for the candidates. 

A huge thanks to the amazing efforts of the Year 9 students for leading the Confirmation retreat and sharing their faith so willingly. You are a true credit to yourselves and it was a pleasure working alongside you. 

Confirmation Payment reminder - Could I please remind the Year 7 candidates who have not yet made the payment of $20 for the program to please hand this to Mrs Collins or the front office in a labelled envelope asap please.

Year 10 Retreat to Warrambui 

Congratulations are extended to the Year 10 students who were an absolute credit to themselves and our school last week at Warrambui. We were led by the wonderful CSYMA Team and it was a fantastic opportunity to also join with students from Year 10 at Tumut and Cootamundra. We especially thank Father Steven Drum for joining us to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation and to stay overnight to spend some time with the boys. It was an amazing opportunity which we were so very blessed to have.

We thank our public speakers Father Steven, Father Dan and Sister Rosie Drum who visited us recently to speak with the students from Years 4-10. They were so inspirational in sharing their experience as missionaries in the church and it was a wonderful opportunity for us to congratulate Fathers Steven and Dan on their recent Ordination to the priesthood. It was lovely to see how engaged the students were and to acknowledge these former St Anne’s students who have achieved so much in their ministry.

Feast of the Sacred Heart

The recent casserole and trivia night was a huge success for the Parish on the Feast of the Sacred Heart. A huge thank you to Mrs Tame for preparing and hosting an amazing trivia night and to Ms Cutcliffe for her support as well. It was exciting to see so many of our students there and we hope to see even more for future events. Your involvement on the night was excellent. Special thanks to Poppy Minchin for her coordination of the games during the rounds.