“Be active, awake and adoring” – Pope Leo XIV on the importance of engaging in Collective Worship
Collective Worship is at the heart of everything that goes on here at St. Joseph’s because we live and breathe our faith. We are unashamed in our love for Jesus and we are passionate about sharing our faith and worshipping with our fabulous staff, students and community.
Weekly collective worship activities
At St. Joseph’s we believe that in addition to daily acts of collective worship, students should have the opportunity to engage in a wide range of traditional and contemporary opportunities for wider-collective worship each week including opportunity to receive the Eucharist which truly is the source and summit of our faith:
- Tuesday morning Parish Mass at St. James’ RC church: Every Tuesday morning a different class on rotation will attend and take leadership of the Parish Mass with the parishioners. Celebrated by Fr. Simon Weymes, our students prepare art work offerings, cards for the parishioners and practice the readings in advance of leading the Liturgy of the Word for the parish Mass. Students then reflect upon how the experience of Mass impacts them.
- Tuesday break-time Silent Adoration: Every Tuesday between 11-11:15am all students and staff have the opportunity to attend Silent Adoration in the chapel. This gives students and staff a moment of peace in the busyness of the school week to offer their own prayers and silent intentions in candle-light and stillness.
- Funky Friday Fellowship: Before school every Friday morning, students and staff come together to worship in a very contemporary and energetic style. We engage in liturgical dances and musical praise such as our school Anthem ‘My Lighthouse’, ‘Shine Jesus Shine’ and the ‘Christian Cha-Cha Slide’, we listen to the Word, we pray together through prayer snowballs and we have faith-based fun. Funky Friday Fellowship is about faith, fellowship and fun.