St Mary's Catholic Primary School

Sacramental Liturgies 2024-2025

Sacramental Liturgy - Holy Orders
 
Holy Orders
 
When a man chooses, and their choice is declared to be true by the Church, through the hands of the Bishop the priest receives Holy Orders. From this moment he no longer ministers in his own name but their own particular gifts or charisms are used to minister ‘in the person of Christ the Head’.

At the start of each academic year Year 6 pupils are invited to be leaders of the school values. They are therefore invited to live the school values in their lives so that in this way they can ‘minister’ them to rest of the school.

This offers a good opportunity to present the Sacrament of Holy Orders to the children and staff. Apart from the introduction given by the Priest Chaplain there follows a liturgy of commitment.

Baptism

 

Baptism is the first of seven sacraments. Its symbols of water and washing remind us of a kind of “birth”. Through Baptism, God adopts us as his children, sharing his life with us by the gift of sanctifying grace (a free gift to help us choose good, to choose eternal life). Our soul is changed and has an indelible mark on it as a consequence of Baptism.

For infants parents and Godparents speak on behalf of the child and make commitments. They are then responsible for nurturing the gift that is given to the baptised child until the child is able to take responsibility for this themselves.

This will be modelled in a ceremony at the end of the first half term when Year 6 promise to be Buddies to the new reception children. They will guide the new children sharing, modelling and living the school values.

 

 

Congratulations to our GIFT team (Growing In Faith Together) who were invested today during our Sacrament of Annointing. They made their promises as leaders of faith at St Mary’s and received gift bags to commemorate this important role. Well done GIFT Team ✝️✝️