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Welcome to Term 4 😊

Next week we have two important feast days. On November 1 it is the Feast day of All Saints when we remember all those who have attained Heaven and on November 2 we commemorate All Souls Day when we remember and pray for all those who have died. For the Feast of All Saints Day we will be having a whole school mass on Thursday, November 3 at 9:15am. We would love to have you join us. If you ever have any questions about the Mass or any curiosities, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I am more than happy to help answer them or discuss further. 😊

These two feast days are celebrated in many ways around the world but one tradition that I think is beautiful is that of visiting a cemetery on the feast of All Souls Day and praying for those who have died. Reading the names of on the gravestones and remembering these people, even if we never knew them, but saying their names and recognising their lives is a powerful way to feel the communion of saints and also to remember our own mortality. There is an old Catholic practice of meditating on one’s death called ‘Momento Mori’ a Latin phrase meaning, “remember your death.” – find out more HERE. This practice helps us to remember that we will one day die (“You are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Gen 3:19)) so we need to use each day to do the best we can to do good, to love well and to seek God in all things. This may seem all a bit morbid, but its purpose is actually the opposite; to truly understand our mortality and so to live well, to live intentionally. So I invite you to take the time next Wednesday to head out to the cemetery, alone or as a family, to walk through the graves and say the names of those who lie there and offer a prayer for them. May we be encouraged to live well.

God Bless,

Miriam Honner, APRIM