Project Compassion launched with Bishop Greg at St Peter’s College

Report and reflection by Janice Yates, Year 10 Youth Ministry Student, St Peter’s College
On Tuesday 1st of March, the youth ministers and youth minister students of St. Peters College Clyde North campus travelled on a bus to join with the fellow youth ministers and youth minister students from the Cranbourne campus. We came together to celebrate the launch of Project Compassion on Shrove Tuesday.
Project Compassion has been raising necessary funds to help those facing poverty and injustice in our world, for over 50 years. The Project Compassion theme for this year, 2022, is ‘For All Future Generations’.

We had Mass at the chapel where the St. Peter’s College choir lifted their voices and sang for the Mass while being joined with the help of Bishop Greg to lead this celebration, on a memorable day. After Mass Bishop Greg, youth ministers and youth minister students were invited to enjoy pancakes together to also celebrate Shrove Tuesday. This was significant because Shrove Tuesday is a day of feasting before 40 days of fasting called Lent. When we had finished eating together in fellowship, the youth ministers and youth minister students farewelled their companions in youth ministry from the Cranbourne Campus and returned to the Clyde North Campus.

Overall, this was a great experience for us youth ministry students, to learn more about the importance of Project Compassion and how it relates to the bible. That we need to be there for each other in unity as Christ was there for us in our broken times, lowest moments, richest times and during our highest achievements. Additionally, the youth ministers and youth ministers’ students from both campuses coming together represented fellowship and signified our faith together.  "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”- Matthew 18:20

Moreover, the donations to Project Compassion that society makes to this cause will positively impact vulnerable families that will have the ability to build brighter and more beneficial futures for themselves. Our community, specifically Australian catholic schools, parishes and supporters join in fellowship and in unity to serve those who are less fortunate than us, so that we can be the pillars and the foundation of forming a better future, not just for one family, but for their generation and generations to come.

We will serve those who need our assistance, just like how Jesus taught us to show Human dignity and to be of service to others when He walked on this earth. I believe this is what the theme really means, to demonstrate service to the generations to come, just like how Jesus offered up Himself upon the cross for the generations from before, the present generation and the generations to come.

Genesis 17:7, ‘And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you’.

To Donate to Project Compassion, go to https://www.caritas.org.au/project-compassion/

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