Our Lady of Mt Carmel seeks to be essentially a faith community. The school provides a vibrant religious education program that incorporates daily classroom prayer, weekly prayer assemblies, class liturgical events, celebration days, parish Family Masses and pastoral care for students by all staff.
Our religious education curriculum is based upon those guidelines recommended by the Catholic Education Centre, Archdiocese of Brisbane. We strive to integrate these in a way that offers your child a uniquely Catholic curriculum; one that is framed by Christian beliefs and Catholic traditions…….one that enables us to discover and celebrate “Christ in our living”…… one that develops each child’s knowledge and understanding of self, other, our God and the world in which we live.
The “Religious Life of the School Guidelines” link the family faith life and the faith life of the parish to classroom catechesis. The child lives his/her faith within the family, learns his/her faith in the school and celebrates his/her faith in the parish. These three aspects of a child’s faith life cannot be separated. Each aspect complements the other in the overall faith development of the child.
Liturgy and prayer are central to the faith life of Mt Carmel School. All children are expected to be involved in class prayer, assemblies and liturgical celebrations.
We recognize the vital role of the family in passing on the traditions of the Church. It is in the family that children learn and absorb aspects of faith and piety long before they first go to school or become aware of what they are hearing in church.
We enjoy a close relationship with our two parishes – Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Regina Caeli. Preparation for the sacraments of Penance and Initiation are done on a Parish level. While the school is only too happy to support you in this task, we invite you to contact your local parish or a minister of your tradition to clarify the process, which can differ from parish to parish.
Parish Sacramental Program
Currently in the Archdiocese of Brisbane sacraments are events prepared for and celebrated in the local parish community - i.e. the parish in which your family regularly worships. If you attend Mount Carmel Church and if your child is baptised and in year 3 or upwards in his/her formal education your child is eligible to prepare to receive Reconciliation, Confirmation and Eucharist through participation in the parish sacrament preparation process. (If you worship elsewhere please enquire at your local parish office for details of their preparation for these sacraments.
Enrolments for these Sacraments will be advertised in the Parish Newsletter, Our Lady of Mt Carmel School Newsletter and a number of Newsletters of local schools. Please contact Our Lady of Mt Carmel Parish Office on (07) 3397 1587 (Tues-Fri) if you have any questions regarding this program. Alternatively please click here to be redirected to Sacraments page of their website.
Alternatively please click here to be redirected to Sacraments page of their website.
