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Lenten appeal funds clean water project 

We are delighted to share that our school community raised a total of $8,127 during our Lenten Appeal. This money raised is split between Caritas’ Project Compassion and OLSH Overseas Aid where the OLSH Sisters in the Philippines are overseeing a project which is working to provide clean drinking water for the people whom they live with and minister to. Thank you to our entire OLSH College Bentleigh school community for your generosity and enthusiasm to assist those most in need.

We received a lovely message from the OLSH Sisters in the Philippines to thank everyone in our community for this support.

Good afternoon everyone at OLSH College Bentleigh. My warm greetings from the Philippines!

Thank you very much for the loving support for the poor people in the Philippines, particularly in a squatter area in Punta Engano and the families in a dumpsite in Soong Lapulapu City, Cebu, Philippines- who encounter problems of clean water supply for their daily consumption and sanitation. Be assured that we will use this money from OLSH Overseas Aid for the completion of this project.

Sr. Cetah OLSH


Issoudun retreat highlights 

Our Group 1 Hartzer students had their retreat day last week, spending the day connecting with each other and with our OLSH charism. Here are their reflections from the day. 

"My highlight was the journaling and getting the compliments, they touched my heart." - Lily

"My heart was touched when we went around in the homerooms and wrote little messages and my highlight was the newspaper fashion show." - Alexis

"My highlight was when we did the then versus now and it made me nostalgic. I found I had a lot in common with my peers and what touched my heart was when I read everyone’s nice messages." - Anthi

"My highlight was the fashion and my heart was touched when we did the messages." - Grace

"My highlight is the magazine model creation and what touched my heart was the kind messages from my group’s circle." - Nei-Temoro

"My highlight was when we made our family coat of arms and what touched my heart was when we got to read all of the sweet messages that everyone wrote for me." - Isabella

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    Reflections from our newest staff members

    Our newest staff members spent time with the OLSH Sisters recently, to learn more about the history of the Sisters and the College, and to understand more about the OLSH charism. Here are their reflections. 

    What I learned from spending time with the OLSH Sisters

    "How simultaneously incredible and down to earth they are. I never fail to be inspired by their company." - Ailish

    "The global reach of the Sisters and the many ways they have served." - Bronwen

    "Sr Delia has spent almost 40 years in PNG and that she is willing to adapt to wherever she is." - Simon

    "How incredibly brave and hard working they are, even travelling to places where no others will go, to make a difference." - Anna

    "The humbleness of the Sisters despite the extraordinary lives they have lived." - Isabella

    "How many places they work in for their mission." - Steven

    "The history of the OLSH Sisters, who were captured as prisoners of war by Japanese soldiers during WWII." - Jett

    "How adventurous they really were. Fearless and so enthusiastic about making a difference in the various places they were serving as missionaries." - Sal

    What remains with me most strongly about our OLSH story and history?

    "Their stories - just listening to the Sister at lunch what they have done, their experiences." - Steven

    "How relevant the ideas of the founders still are today." - Isabella

    "The courage and compassion of the OLSH Sisters, as well as the significance of Mary and her connection to Jesus." - Jett

    "How integral the OLSH Sisters are to OLSH Bentleigh." - Simon

    "The more I learn about the history of OLSH and its origins the greater the understanding of the spirit and ethos of our College." -Sal

    "The connection between the MSC and the OLSH Sisters." - Bronwen

    "How everything grows out of love, with the heart being central to everything. It's such a strong symbol, that resonates with people young, old and anything in between." - Anna

    "That Marie Louise Hartzer had a whole life before becoming a Daughter of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart." - Ailish

    Gospel and reflection

    For your personal prayer, reflection and interest we will include the Sunday Gospel reading and a reflection on the Gospel in our College newsletters. I hope this helps you to deepen your faith as you engage with the Jesus of the Gospels.

    GOSPEL  Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke. Your peace will rest upon him.

    The Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him, in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself was to visit.

    He said to them, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest. Start off now, but remember, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Carry no purse, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road. Whatever house you go into, let your first words be, “Peace to this house!” And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you. Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house. Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is set before you. Cure those in it who are sick, and say, “The kingdom of God is very near to you.” But whenever you enter a town and they do not make you welcome, go out into its streets and say, “We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet, and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this: the kingdom of God is very near.” I tell you, that on that day it will not go as hard with Sodom as with that town.’ 

    The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said, ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’ He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Yes, I have given you power to tread underfoot serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice rather that your names are written in heaven.’

    The Gospel of the Lord.

    R. Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ

    PEACE BE WITH YOU

    We live in a world of fear. It surrounds us: the political aggression evident globally, the social issues that depress, even personal challenges that come from relationships and life choices. The fear of tumultuous unrest or personal failure dominates our hearts at times.

    Today’s Gospel offers us a calming voice. Pentecost is a celebration of God’s Spirit present, efficacious and penetrating—even into those areas of life and our world that seem so strained, tense and violent. Jesus comes into a room of fearful disciples. They are afraid of the religious authorities—what they did to Jesus could also happen to them. Into their midst the Risen Jesus comes. He stands among them, not away from them, or outside them. But in the midst of their fears. Twice he offers them the word that they need to hear, ‘Peace be with you.’ It’s a word that we need to hear personally, and that the world needs to know.

    ‘Peace’ comes from the gift of Jesus’ own spirit. His reassurance of his presence, the evidence of his suffering before them in his wounds, and his gift of peace is a strong affirmation. ‘Peace’, ‘shalom’ in Hebrew, is a prayer for wholeness in the midst of fear and suffering. It is the gift that Jesus wants for us, and for the world. The Gospel ends with the invitation to mission, to spread this peace that brings wholeness and forgiveness of sin.

    Fr Michael Trainor

    Gospel reading from The Jerusalem Bible, Copyright © 1966 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. and Gospel Reflection, © St Pauls Publications 2025, are published with permission of St Paul's Publications. Strathfield NSW. All rights reserved.

    Ms Megan Donohue
    Deputy Principal Faith and Mission