I hope you enjoyed looking through the samples of your children's work from Term 1& 2 ( Semester One) that were sent home with School Reports.
We ask that you return those books to school to be able to be share with Emmaus or kept on file in St Timothy's Archives.
Thank you
Dear Parents
We are seeking Parent Volunteers to provide a cake, biscuits or slices for our weekly cake raffle fundraiser. If you can help out please send Anne Maree Jones or Gail Rich your name/ preferred date/week (if you have one ) to be added to our list of volunteers.
Week 1 19th July: Carla Hayes ( Tommy)
Week 2 26th July : Maria Cabala Bonilla ( Natalia)
Week 3 2nd August: NO SCHOOL
Week 4: 9th August: Emily Dermietzel (Isabelle)
Week 5: 16th August: Carly Corcoran ( Ellie))
Week 6: 23rd August: Beth Seymour ( Abigail & Ethan)
Week 7: 30th August: Manju ( Nika and Nathan)
Looking for Term 3 Volunteers
Parish Newsletter Saturday 3rd August and Sunday 4th August 2024 The journey of discipleship is a lifelong exodus from the slavery of sin and death to the holiness of truth on Mount Zion, the promised land of eternal life. The road can get rough. And when it does, we can be tempted to complain like the Israelites in this week’s First Reading. We have to see these times of hardship as a test of what is in our hearts, a call to trust God more and to purify the motives for our faith (Deuteronomy 8:2–3). As Paul reminds us in this week’s Epistle, we must leave behind our old self-deceptions and desires and live according to the likeness of God in which we are made. Jesus tells the crowd in this week’s Gospel that they are following Him for the wrong reasons. They seek Him because He filled their bellies. The Israelites, too, were content to follow God so long as there was plenty of food. Food is the most obvious of signs—because it is the most basic of our human needs. We need our daily bread to live. But we cannot live by this bread alone. We need the bread of eternal life that preserves those who believe in Him (Wisdom 16:20, 26). The manna in the wilderness, like the bread Jesus multiplied for the crowd, was a sign of God’s Providence—that we should trust that He will provide. These signs pointed to their fulfillment in the Eucharist, the abundant bread of angels we sing about in this week’s Psalm. This is the food that God longs to give us. This is the bread we should be seeking. But too often we don’t ask for this bread. Instead we seek the perishable stuff of our everyday wants and anxieties. In our weakness we think these things are what we really need. We have to trust God more. If we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, all these things will be ours as well (Matthew 6:33).
Scott Hahn
