In this Gospel Jesus speaks about the strength that comes from numbers. Jesus tells his disciples that “Wherever two or three people are gathered together in my name, I am there with them.” This is the power of prayer, most importantly of prayer as a community. Prayer as a family, whether it be around the dinner table or a bedtime prayer is the beginning of developing the sense of praying as a community. We start each school day praying together - even in our Remote Learning setting we continue to pray together as a class. While we are living under Stage 3 restrictions take time to share a prayer, a story or a song with your children. Use the many resources at our fingertips on the internet to pray as a community - big or small it doesn’t matter. As it says in the Gospel “Wherever two or three people are gathered together in my name, I am there with them.”

Remote Learning - Religion

During Week 8 the children focused on the ‘Season of Creation’. This is a global event; celebrated by many different churches, in different countries with an important thing in common - our planet. The Season of Creation begins on the 1st September and lasts until the 4th October.

Pope Francis shares one important message with us: “This is the season for letting our prayer life be inspired anew, to reflect on our lifestyles, to undertake prophetic acts for creation. It’s time to call for courageous decisions and direct the planet towards life not death.”

The children in each year level responded to this message in a variety of ways but they all wrote their own prayer of thanks for the beautiful world that we live in. Here are some of the prayers that were written by the Grade 1/2 children...