Term 1 Week
St Vincent
S​t FRancis de sales
Conversion of St paul
St timothy & st titus
st angela merici
21- 26JANUARY
ORDINARY TIME
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Years 3 to 6 Prayer Library
Years 7 to 10 Prayer Library
Years 11 & 12 Prayer Library

Sunday
21JANUARY
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel:  Mark 1:14-20
​Responding to the call of Jesus – like all the great decisions of a full and generous life – is not without its cost
Teacher Background

Monday
22 January
Feast of St Vincent
​Setting up for Prayer
  • Prepare to create a classroom/homeroom Sacred Prayer Space. This video Prayer Spaces in Schools talks about designing spaces for students to experience prayer in creative and meaningful ways. Keep in mind key symbols e.g. candle, bible, cross or crucifix, icon and liturgical colours. Introduce different additional symbols e.g. flowers, rocks, leaves, oil, water, images, a word or a quote for prayer times depending on the focus so that the prayer space does not become static.
  • It is the Church Season of Ordinary Time and the liturgical colour is green. 
  • The Catholic Church follows a three year cycle of readings. This year is Cycle B and is known as the Year of Mark
  • Take time to check out APPENDIX A Explicit Teaching about Prayer, the Prayer Library and Christian Prayer Resources to plan for a variety of prayer experiences. 

Tuesday
23 January
Beginning of Year Prayer
  • Plan for protocols and rituals for prayer with the students and decide on best times to embed prayer and times of silence in to the school day/lesson.
  • Pray this short Prayer for the Beginning of a New Year and use it  as a stimulus for students to  be involved in writing a class prayer or prayers  using the You Who Do Through structure. 

Wednesday
24 january
Feast Day St Francis de Sales
You Tube
​Names for God
  • Compile a list of names for God that can be used in classroom prayer e.g. Gentle God, God of new Beginnings, God of Justice, Forgiving God.
  • Read In God’s Name or watch video clip In God’s Name
  • Choose one name for God and invite students to Pray in Colour.

Thursday
25 january
​The conversion of St Paul the Apostle
Prayer for Ecological Conversion
God of the sun and the moon, of the
​mountains, deserts and plains,
God of the mighty oceans, of rivers, lakes and streams,
God all creatures that live in the seas and fly in the air, of every living thing that grows and moves on this sacred Earth....
Help us to love and respect it, to repair what we have damaged, to care for what you have made good and holy.
Give us the wisdom and the passion to change our minds and hearts and our ways.
Let us be mustard seeds in our world, bringing about ecological conversion, which grows and spreads to every corner of the earth,
For our sake now and for every generation which is to come.
We ask this prayer through Christ Jesus, Amen.


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Friday
26 january
Australia Day
Feast Day St Timothy & St Titus

Prayers for our Country
  • Revisit the lyrics of the Australian National Anthem  and the symbolism of the Australian flag.
  • Pray a simple Litany for our country
  • May all Australian people live in peace.
  • Be with us God.
  • May all Australian people have access to food and shelter.
  • Be with us God
  • May all Australians be caretakers of creation and the land that we call home.
  • Be with us God
  • Invite students to add to this Litany