UPDATE: # 53
Liturgical Guidelines

Do you enjoy helping primary school-aged children to learn? 
Especially about our faith? 

If you have those gifts we invite you to consider joining our ASRE team in 2022 as one of our
teachers. This program teaches Catholic children who don't attend a Catholic primary school
about our faith, including (at the right age) preparing them for Sacraments. You will be supported with materials, an induction and mentoring from existing ASRE teachers.  
 
If you are interested, please call Rosetta on 0408 884 867 or email her at: asre@stsimonsparish.com.au to organise a chat. 
 
(As St Simon's strongly supports a child-safe environment, all ASRE teachers need to have
a current Working With Children Check (which can be arranged at no cost for volunteers) and sign the parish code of conduct related to child safeguarding.)

We hope that you and your loved ones are keeping safe and well.

Our Sacrament Enrolment process again for 2021 was put on ‘hold’.
As State Government restrictions are eased, it is our hope that we will have the opportunity to schedule new dates for the celebrations of Sacraments attended by large numbers of children and families as soon as possible. We will be totally reliant on those hopes being inaccord with the COVID-19 restrictions to which we are all subject.

The program provides religious education for Parish children from Year 2 to Year 6 who attend schools other than St. Simon’s.Classes will run at St. Simon’s Parish every Tuesday during school 1st, 2nd, 3rd term (unless otherwise notified) and are conducted from 4.00pm to 5.00pm.

The children spend 50 minutes with their Catechist. They gather together regularly with
all the ASRE children and catechists for communal prayer, based around a particular focus, and led by a catechist and their children, in the Parish Church.

The program aims to:

• Share our love of, and belief in God with the children
• Create an awareness of God’s presence in their lives
• Provide opportunities to develop their faith
• Teach them about Jesus’ life, actions and teachings
• Share scripture with them
• give them a sense of belonging to the catholic community
• teach them about some of our catholic traditions
• provide informal and formal opportunities to pray using speech,
• singing, imagination 
  and dramatisation.

2022 Enquiries:

If you know of any child from Grade 2 to Grade 6 who would like to be a part of the program, or, have expressed an interest to join our catechist team, please contact
Rosetta: 0408 884 867 or St Simon’s Parish Office: 9764 4058

Participation in the program is an essential component of the Parish Sacramental Program. Classes meet in the Church foyer at 4.30pm. 

Compulsory for ALL parents who wish to enrol a Candidate for Reconciliation,
First Communion or Confirmation to summit a completed Enrolment Form

For "SACRAMENTAL CALENDAR" click - here