Students across all year levels spent time in the College Chapel last week to celebrate Ash Wednesday and the start of the Lenten period — a time of prayer, fasting and almsgiving to prepare for Easter. Students from the CSYMA (Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Australia) classes led the Liturgies for each year level and delivered the ashes to students and staff throughout the day. The ashes marked on the forehead symbolise the dust from which God made us.
It was also the launch of the Project Compassion campaign for 2020, with boxes available in each homeroom for students to make donations. You can learn more about Caritas Australia's Project Compassion HERE.
A day earlier, students filled up their bellies with delicious pancakes cooked by teachers as part of Shrove Tuesday. Pancakes were traditionally eaten on the day before Ash Wednesday as it was a way of using up all the eggs, milk and sugar before the 40 days of fasting over Lent.
It was wonderful to see our community come together in this important period of religious observation.
