Religious Education News
Class Mass Wednesday 22nd March
Mutipurpose Room Columba
Starting 9:15am
3/4 & 5/6 Students
Ash Wednesday
On Wednesday 22nd February our 3-6 students will be travelling down to Iona Church to partake in the Ash Wednesday Mass. We ask parents to ensure they have completed their children's permission forms through Parent Access Module (PAM). Instructions on how to access your PAM are below.
Ash Wednesday, in the Christian church, is the first day of Lent, occurring 6 1/2 weeks before Easter (between February 4 and March 11, depending on the date of Easter). In the early Christian church, the length of the Lenten celebration varied, but eventually it began 6 weeks (42 days) before Easter. This provided only 36 days of fast (excluding Sundays). In the 7th century, 4 days were added before the first Sunday in Lent in order to establish 40 fasting days, in imitation of Jesus Christ’s fast in the desert.
It was the practice in Rome, Italy, for penitents to begin their period of public penance on the first day of Lent. They were sprinkled with ashes, dressed in sackcloth, and obliged to remain apart until they were reconciled with the Christian community on Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter. When these practices fell into disuse (8th–10th century), the beginning of the penitential season of Lent was symbolized by placing ashes on the heads of the entire congregation.
In the modern Roman Catholic church, on Ash Wednesday the worshipper receives a cross marked on the forehead with the ashes obtained by burning the palms used on the previous year’s Palm Sunday. Worship services are also held on Ash Wednesday in the Anglican, Lutheran, and some other Protestant churches. Eastern Orthodox churches begin Lent on a Monday and therefore do not observe Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday February 22nd
St Joseph’s Iona – 9.30am
St John the Baptist Kooweerup – 11.30am
St James Nar Nar Goon – 2.15pm
Stations of the Cross and Reconciliation
St Joseph’s Iona –
St James Nar Nar Goon –
St John the Baptist Kooweerup -
Holy Thursday April 6th Mass of the Lord’s Supper
St John the Baptist – 7.30 pm
Good Friday April 7th
Stations of the Cross
Maryknoll 10.00am
Kooweerup 11.00am
Solemn Liturgy of the Passion
St Joseph’s Iona – 3.00 pm
Holy Saturday Vigil April 8th
St Joseph’s Iona – 7.30 pm
Easter Sunday April 9th
Holy Family Maryknoll – 8.00 am
St John the Baptist Kooweerup – 9.30 am
St James Nar Nar Goon – 10.45 am
