Mission Day

Tomorrow is St Mary’s MISSION DAY. This is a long-standing tradition at our school (going back at least 50 years) to raise awareness and funds for those in the world who do not have enough of what they need to live.

Every year in the month of October, our school community joins with students and teachers around the country to take part in Catholic Mission’s Extraordinary Missionary Month. We focus on our collective mission as Christians to reach out and help the poor. We do this by learning about the unjust situation others face; by raising funds to help them; and by praying for them. We have been praying the Rosary along with hundreds of other Catholic schools, asking our Mother Mary to pray for our brothers and sisters in need.

Archbishop Christopher Prowse explained to school children, at the annual Catholic Mission Mass in Canberra, Pope Francis’ desire for us all to be Missionary Disciples who reach out and help others with “Heart, Head, and Hands”.

Pope Francis reiterates Jesus’ desire for us to:

• know, in our minds that we are all God’s beloved children;
• desire in our hearts to show compassion and
• Work with our hands to seek justice and peace for everyone; (to serve others as Jesus did to bring about God’s Kingdom on earth where all are equal and all HAVE ENOUGH)

At St Mary’s, our focus on Mission and Service continues into November where it culminates in Mission Day.