Service Learning

Campus Ministry at Gregory Terrace offers a number of ways you can join the faith community to hear and respond to the wisdom of Jesus and Blessed Edmund Rice. Some of our initiatives include:

• Special Ministers of the Eucharist 
• Altar Serving 
• Music Ministry

 

Lenten Appeal

Each of our Nine Houses is involved in the Lenten Appeal which raises monies during Lent for various charities.  Each House has taken on a Friendship Group which they support.  Monies raised are divided and sent to various places in accordance to the teachings of Edmund Rice.  

Most of the money goes to our sister school in East Timor to support teachers each year.  Each of our Houses is also given funds to give to their Friendship Group.

 

House Friendship Program

Barrett House	Western Suburbs Special School	http://westernsuburbsspecs.eq.edu.au/wcmss/
Buckley House	Edmund Rice Camps	http://www.edmundricecamps.com.au
Kearney House	Milperra High School	http://www.milperashs.eq.edu.au
Magee House	Holy Rosary Catholic School	http://www.hrwindsor.qld.edu.au
Mahoney House	Little Kings Movement
Reidy House	Royal Children’s Hospital	http://www.rch.org.au
Treacy House	Salvation Army	http://www.salvos.org.au
Windsor  House	Young Care	http://www.youngcare.com.au
Xavier House	Albert Street Flexi School	http://www.visible-ink.org

Year 10 Immersion/Year 9 Exploration

Exploration and Immersion Units involve students in a social justice experience that has practical applications.  They provide students with an opportunity to respond to the injustices around them and to attend to the needs of others.  

Our aim is to help the students understand that the point of service is not just what changes as a result of one’s efforts but that it is the change in one’s self that matters.  Students work with a number of social justice organisations in close proximity to Gregory Terrace and are challenged to move from an observational to a relational approach with those people that find themselves on the margins of our society. 

Exploration and Immersion Units respond to the challenges of our time and how they relate to adolescent male psychology.  There is a sense that, as Catholics, we have a crisis of identity, of meaning and of purpose.  How do we respond and remain faithful to our traditions?  Our role models need to be St Joseph as Husband and Father; Jesus as Prophet, a man of social action and revelation and Edmund Rice, as a man of faith and learning.  

We need to ask how “men of faith and learning” can avoid disappearing into a culture of materialism and consumerism. A reflection from a past participant:

“To me Immersion is the process of entering into direct relationship with people and circumstances that are not part of our normal day.  Immersion in itself is of no value if our heart set and mind set are not of the Gospel”.