St Timothy's School Vermont 2024

National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Now in its 24th successful year, it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's book that explores age-appropriate themes, and addresses key learning areas of the National Curriculum for Foundation to Year 6.

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.

Term 2

Week 6 - 24th May- - Jarunee Saengsuriya  ( Sean) 

Week 7 -31st May Belinda ( Hayley &william)

Week 8-7th June Carly ( Ellie)

Week 9 - 14th June Beth ( Abigail & Ethan) 

Week 10 - 21st June Wiluppa ( Julia)

Week 11- 28th June Sophie ( Iris) 

Term 2 Assemblies

Week 3,5,7 and 9 at 3pm

• Friday May 3rd
• Friday May 17th
• Friday May 31st
• Friday June 14th

St Vinnies Winter Appeal

Friday 7th June is the Feast of Sacred Heart.

Traditionally at this time each year we ask families to donate non perishable items for the St Vinnies Winter Appeal.

For example:

Canned Foods: Soup, tuna, salmon, baked beans, tinned fruit, fruit juices

Bottled foods: Spaghetti sauce, mayonnaise, bottled sauces, eg Chicken tonight

Sealed foil/plastic foods; chips, nuts, sauces, rice

Toiletries: toothpaste. soap, hand cream, body cream, body wash, hand wash, toothbrush, nail brush, nail scissors, shampoo, conditioner.

Special Treats: Chocolate, coffee, tea, hot chocolate/milo, cake mix

Baby Needs: nappies, bibs, bottles, clothes, wipes

Winter Goodies: Hats ,scarves , beanies, socks

Good Quality clothes and shoes

 We will set up baskets in each classroom and Open Learning Space.

If you can assist us it would be greatly appreciated.

St. Vincent de Paul Society -Winter Appeal 2024

( a letter of request  from John Mc Coy)

This bulletin note is to again seek your support for the St Vincent de Paul Society’s ‘Winter Appeal’. The current high cost-of-living and rent increases makes our presence in the community to assist people experiencing poverty and disadvantage as important now as it has ever been.

Our Winter Appeal this year will be held during Masses over the weekends of the 8 th / 9 th June and the 15 th / 16 th June.

Donations can be made by calling 13 18 12 or online at vinnies.org.au. Donors can direct their gift to our Conferences by entering ‘Forest Hill’ or ‘Blackburn South’ in the comments field. Also, there are envelopes available for cash, cheque or credit card donations.

Our combined Parish is also appealing for goods including non-perishable food, toiletries, suitable clothing, blankets, doonas etc and these items can be left at the Piety Stalls or at St Timothy's School.

All donations received are used for the local needs of St. Timothy’s (Forest Hill)and St Luke’s (Blackburn South) Conferences of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

God bless all and we thank you again for your generous support now and over the past many decades.

Parish Newsletter Saturday 25th May and Sunday 26th May 2024

Trinity Sunday

Saint Augustine of Hippo, one of the greatest minds that ever existed in the Church, who died in 430 AD, was trying to comprehend the mystery of the Holy Trinity, in which he firmly believed and placed his trust, yet realized it was no easy thing to full grasp. In his contemplation Augustine decided to take a walk along the seashore. There he saw a child playing in the sand near the shoreline. Having dug a hole in the sand, the child was bringing over handfuls of water from the nearby ocean to fill the hole. At one point, Augustine asked what the child was trying to do. The youngster replied that he wanted to empty the entire ocean into the hole he had dug in the sand. “But that is impossible,” Augustine observed, “Can’t you see the ocean is infinitely greater than the hole you have dug in the sand?” At that moment Augustine realized a profound truth: it is equally impossible to fill the human mind with the immensity of the mystery of the Holy Trinity. As Saint Augustine realized, the human mind is too limited to take in all the greatness of the Trinity, he also admitted that only God can fill and satisfy the human heart. “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you, O Lord,” Augustine so wisely expressed it. In other words, there are many things about God that we cannot fully understand with the mind, but that we can with the heart. God is so much and is in fact everything: Creator, Father, Sustainer, Son, Redeemer, Infinite Wisdom, Holy Spirit, Sanctifier, Comforter, Love, Advocate, who cannot but act for the welfare of the human family, drawing all things and persons toward the knowledge and love of God. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church rightly expresses it: “The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life” (number 234). The Holy Trinity is above all a mystery of love and the complete expression of the love of God, which in turn transforms those who come to God, who live and die in God. Furthermore, the Holy Trinity is a mystery of unity, being indivisible, meaning the Trinity cannot be divided, yet at the same time composed of three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as we said at the beginning. In other words, “We do not confess three gods, but one God in three persons” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, number 253). This unity in diversity of the Holy and Blessed Trinity is all-inclusive, meaning each and every human being is welcome to partake of the life of the Trinity. The Holy Trinity in turn gives true and lasting life to others whose lives are touched by God. That is the heart of our life in the Holy Trinity. Furthermore, the life we live becomes a source of encouragement and redemption for others hungering for rest in the One God who is our origin and goal. We are each being invited to engage more than the mind as we ponder the mystery of our living under the watchful care of the Holy Trinity. We are invited to open “the ears of our heart,” as Saint Benedict so beautifully expressed it, in order to comprehend, to the degree that we can, the greatness of our God. While living this life, we will never understand fully the God who saves us, but that is no reason to give up in our search for God, and our ardent pursuit of God’s will for our life, as well as our proclamation of the Gospel by the lives we live. Abbot Christian Leisy, OSB