Our community walks with Christ into Holy Week

As a faith community, Lent invited us to pause, reflect and respond more intentionally to God’s call to prayer, almsgiving and action.

Our Community Mass brought students and staff together for a Procession of the Palms, enacting Palm Sunday. Through this procession, the community remembered Jesus’ joyful entry into Jerusalem and the crowds who welcomed him, marking the beginning of Holy Week – the most sacred time in the Church’s year.

Palm Sunday invited us to reflect on the contrast at the heart of Holy Week – between celebration and sacrifice, praise and suffering – and prepared us to journey with Christ through his Passion, death and Resurrection.

Our community prepared for Easter by participating in a blessing and procession of palms, as well as a narration of the Passion of Christ according to Matthew. Holy Week liturgies were celebrated across both the Primary and Secondary schools, providing students with age-appropriate opportunities to pray, reflect and engage more deeply with the events at the heart of our faith. Together, these celebrations helped our community to walk with Christ in hope, compassion and love as we approached Easter.

Jesuit priest Fr Richard Leonard reflected on how the procession of Palm Sunday ‘starts with hysteria and ends in death.’ His homily offered a timely and thought-provoking reflection on the meaning of Holy Week for the faithful.

As Holy Week unfolded, our community was called to walk with Christ in prayer, solidarity and renewed faith – journeying through his Passion and death towards the joy of Easter.