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Religious Education

Fr Damien celebrated a children’s Mass with Grade 1 to pray for our Parents and Grandparents. In preparation for the Mass the children planted and germinated seeds in paper boxes made by Grade 5 and 6. Fr Damien talked about the children working with their hands to grow the seeds and to use their hands for God’s work. Fr Damien also focused on the children’s families and asked the children to reflect on their behaviour in their family, encouraging the children to use their hands to do good deeds in order to help their family to grow in the love of God.

God, we hold these seeds in our hand.
We see smallness, weakness, insignificance.
You see potential, growth, significance.
Tiny seeds grow by your power into huge trees.
They provide food for the hungry and homes for the birds.
From the darkness of the earth springs forth your life, your harvest.

Your Kingdom is like a tiny seed.
When we look at your church, and our own lives,
we see smallness, weakness, insignificance.
You see potential, growth, significance.

Give us eyes of faith and willing hands to see your Kingdom grow in us.

May we feed the hungry with food and the bread of life,
welcome the homeless into your family,
and gather the harvest you love has provided.
In Christ's name and the power of the Spirit

we commit our lives to you again.

Amen.