Festa Christi Highlights
Last week, four keen Year 8 students attended Festa Christi, a student discipleship retreat facilitated by the Catholic Schools Office. Held at the Coffs Coast Adventure Centre in Bonville, this overnight experience gave our students, along with those from other secondary schools in the Diocese, a chance to share and explore their faith, whilst participating in some outdoor physical challenges. These challenges included the Giant Swing, Ladder Logs and Commando Course and it was awesome to see our students get involved in embracing these challenges, overcoming their own fears and encouraging others to overcome theirs and complete the challenges.
Fr Joy from St Augustine’s Parish in Coffs Harbour finished this retreat with a beautifully engaging Mass for all who partook in Festa Christi.
Here is what our students took away from their time at Festa Christi, in their own words:
⦁ “The biggest thing I took out of Festa Christi is to be more considerate to a stranger because you don’t know what they’ve been through”. – Maya.
⦁ “You have to understand and really feel what other people are feeling to put yourself in their shoes to understand how they feel”. – Ruby
⦁ “What I really enjoyed about Festa Christi is that I got new experiences, faced my fears, made new friends, and enjoyed fabulous activities and food. It was awesome”. – Patrick
⦁ “Making new friends and exploring my faith – friends, fun, faith”! - Eva