World Mission Month/Crazy Sock Day
Throughout October we are raising money for World Mission Month. On Tuesday of next week, October 24th we are having 'Crazy Sock Day' and will also be selling yummy ice cream creations.
We are asking for gold coin donations from the children to wear crazy socks, and the ice cream creations will be sold for $2.
The day will commence with a liturgy in the hall commencing at 8:55am. All community members are welcome and encouraged to join us at this liturgy.
All money raised will go towards to Timor-Leste, where missionaries are seeking to provide life-fulfilling opportunities for children in need.
Have a look at the attached video for further information about where our fundraising efforts will go.

   

World Mission Sunday
Please see a reflection on ‘World Mission Sunday’, as shared with CEO Staff.
Each year, on the last Sunday of October, Catholics around the world celebrate World Mission Day. At Mass people of faith are invited to reconnect with the baptismal call to live as People of Mission. 
For some, the idea of mission conjures up an age-old image of religious men and women dressed in soutanes and habits, traversing seas in leaky boats with Bible in hand, evangelising and building the global Church throughout foreign lands.
Mission, though, is not to be considered a work reserved exclusively for religious orders, and it is by no means all about making an epic journey to bring the Scripture to people who dwell in far away places. The word mission means ‘to be sent out’, but we do not have to travel far to live our call to mission. Mission can happen when we respond lovingly, as the body of Christ to the needs of others that are right before us. Perhaps Saint Mother Teresa captures this thought as she became known for saying to zealous young missionaries: “Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering, and the lonely, right where you are — in your own homes and in your own families, in homes and in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have eyes to see.

Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society - completely forgotten, completely left alone.”  Whether it be tending to an ill family member, supporting a colleague through a difficult time, encouraging learners to adopt environmentally sustainable practices, assisting community members through the cost of living crisis, supporting reforms to empower Aboriginal people in taking a rightful place or creating equal opportunity for the disabled and disenfranchised - the work of Mission seems to call to us where we already are. The question is do we have eyes to see the need before us? Do we have hearts inflamed with compassion? Do we have hands and feet ready to respond and move from compassion to action?  This Mission Sunday we pray with Catholics all over the world that we might renew our commitment to being People of Mission.  
With Pope Francis, we pray:
“Let us set out again with burning hearts, with our eyes open and our feet in motion. 
Let us set out to make other hearts burn with the word of God, to open the eyes of others to Jesus in the Eucharist, and to invite everyone to walk together on the path of peace and salvation. ”When has a person of Mission entered into your life to offer you love and support? What did this do for you? 
Where is your Calcutta - the places of need in your own community that call to you as a person of Mission?
How might you move from a place of compassion to action and respond to a need within your own community at this time? 

Kind regards,
Mr Sam Mattas
Religious Education Coordinator