St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Mittagong

ST MICHAEL'S SUPPORTING THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO HELP OUR COMMUNITY ☺️
StMichaels Mittagong
Catholic Education Diocese of Wollongong

They are the future nurses.
The future volunteers.
The future CWA ladies.
The future angels of our town.

Dressed in white, carrying messages of service and hope, these beautiful children remind us why we do what we do. Gratitude is not just about today - it’s about inspiring the next generation to lead with kindness, courage and community spirit.

OUR NEW SOCCER GOAL POSTS!

We have the best ‘P and F’ and community! Recently new soccer goals were approved and purchased to replace our weathered and damaged ones. We are very grateful for the ‘P and F’ support in doing this. Patrick and Dominica then kindly arranged for Cope Sensitive Freight to transport the goals to school, saving us the significant cost of doing this ourselves. Assembling the goals was the next challenge but Lance (from Jancel) and Allan generously volunteered their own time to do this. Now we have the most up to date goals for the children to use. Padding for the posts will soon arrive as well. Thank you to Mrs Linolli for overseeing everything and the many other parents who have contributed to achieving this improvement for our school. We are so thankful!

PLEASE HELP - VINNIES WINTER APPEAL

Dear Parents and Carers

Between now and the end of term we are supporting the St Vincent de Paul Winter Appeal. Any contributions of non-perishable food items that families can make would be greatly appreciated and will help people in our local community.

Suggestions include . . .

Kindergarten: Tins of baked beans, tins of spaghetti, noodles
Year 1: Tins of soup and stews
Year 2: Tins of tuna / fish, tins of meats eg ham
Year 3: Packets of pasta (also flavoured pasta, gluten free pasta)
Year 4: Tins of vegetables, carrots, peas etc
Year 5: Long life milk (full cream milk, almond milk, lactose free, soy etc)
Year 6: Tins of fruit salad, tins of apricots, apples etc

Or . . . any other non-perishable food items not listed would also be fantastic. These could include tea / coffee / crisps / and many others.

Thank you in anticipation

𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘
𝟏𝟑-𝟏𝟒 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

This weekend we celebrate the patronal feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, when the whole diocese looks to Mary, Mother of the Church.

Mary received her Son with ready obedience and an undivided heart. She pondered in her heart the mystery of Christ, and she continues to share as a mother in the joys and struggles of our families, parishes, schools and communities. Through her Immaculate Heart she draws us ever closer to Jesus.

On this feast, we confidently entrust the Diocese of Wollongong to her care. You are warmly invited to pray the diocesan prayer with us:

𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐆

Mother of the Redeemer, in this diocese dedicated to your Immaculate Heart, with great joy we call you blessed.

In order to carry out his providential plan of salvation, God the Father chose you before the creation of the world. You believed in his love and obeyed his word.

The Son of God desired you for his mother when he became man to save the human race.

You received him with ready obedience and undivided heart. The Holy Spirit loved you as his mystical spouse and he filled you with singular gifts.

You allowed yourself to be led by his hidden and powerful action.

We entrust to you the diocese which acknowledges you and invokes you under the title of your Immaculate Heart.

On earth you preceded the Church in the pilgrimage of faith: guide us as we walk in your footsteps, comfort us in our difficulties and trials, help us to reach God.

To you, Mother of the Church, we confidently entrust our bishop, our priests, deacons and religious, our families, and ourselves.

Give us the light of true wisdom, a wisdom to be found only in your Son as you told us at Cana: "Do whatever he tells us." Enable us all to meet him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Sustain us, O Virgin Mary, on our journey of faith, and obtain for us the grace of eternal salvation.

O clement, O loving, O sweet Mother of God and our mother, Mary!

To be followed by three Hail Marys and the invocation:

Immaculate Heart of Mary,
𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬.

(Prayer adapted from Pope John Paul II’s Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe (1979) by Monsignor Graham Schmitzer)

PARENTS DAY AT ST MICHEALS… PART 2
Featuring our Kindergarten class on their first parents day along with some other great photos from the day.
StMichaels Mittagong

PARENTS DAY AT ST MICHAEL’S… SO MUCH FUN ☺️
It was so great to see so many parents visiting our classrooms and seeing all the great learning our students are doing. Thank you so much for your wonderful support 🥰
StMichaels Mittagong

Join us for Mass this weekend.