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Br Robert Callen Director of Campus Ministry
hroughout 2004 Campus Ministry at Trinity continued to flourish. Our primary aim has been to create a faith community within the college. To do this we have continued to provide a wide variety of opportunities and programs through which students can come to better know, love and serve God.
Worship: Worship is one of the key areas of Campus Ministry. We have encouraged personal prayer, and we have provided students with many resources, not least of which is the special section in each boy’s diary. As well we have tried to get all of our students in Years 8 & 9 to learn “The Treasury of Catholic Prayers” by heart. Teachers have been encouraged to begin every lesson with a prayer, and they have been provided with prayer resources as well. Our more formal prayer settings have included School Assemblies, and especially our Liturgies and paraliturgies. For the first time this year we commenced the academic year with a whole of school Mass of the Holy Spirit on Centenary Park. Within this Mass we included the Commissioning of our new Principal, Mr Bothe. Earlier we had a Mass of Commissioning for our Special Ministers of the Eucharist celebrated by Bishop Sproxton. To all of the Year 12 students he also distributed a book of special messages to young people from Pope John
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Perhaps one of our most beautiful and moving liturgies is our whole of school Mass in honour of our Founder, Blessed Edmund Rice, held at the Cathedral. As we are a city school, the Cathedral is our Parish Church, and for that reason we like to have the whole school present there at least once a year. Many of our Seniors play a significant role in this Mass in May, from Serving, Commentating, Prayers of the Faithful, Cantors, Choir, and Special Ministers of the Eucharist. Daniel Mullaney (Year 8) sang the beautiful soprano solo for “Pity Then The Child” from Liam Lawton’s “Sacred Story”. Each term every Year Level held their own Mass in the Chapel and both Mr Theseira and I taught new hymns each term. Our Chaplain, Father Michael was our celebrant. And the year finished with two impressive and meaningful Eucharistic liturgies: the Graduation Mass for the Class of 2004 in Gibney Hall, and the Farewell Mass of Commissioning for the boys leaving for India in December.
Deepening Our Faith: Campus Ministry provided a comprehensive Retreat program throughout the senior school. (More of which will be explained on the following pages.) But hand in hand with prayer and worship, the boys at Trinity were offered Retreat experiences so that they could take a little bit of time off the mad hurdy-gurdy of life to ponder those things that are truly important in their lives and to discover that God was truly close to their hearts. Campus Ministry continues to provide many boys with opportunities for Christian leadership, whether it be in Music Ministry, Altar Serving, Lectors (Readers), Commentators, Retreat Leaders, Cadre, Peer Ministry, Sacristans, Roadies etc. There is a place for everyone. Brother Rob Callen Director of Campus Ministry
PILGRIMAGE THROUGH INDIA # 7 2004 GROUP Back row: Matthew Slack-Smith, Garth Jeffery, Mr John Geekie, Brother Robert Callen, Mr Mark Duffy, Caleb Davenport, Daniel O’Connell Front row: Matthew Cain, Joseph Ryan, Shaun Wyn-Jones, Bohdan Dowsing, Nathan Colli
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