From The Chaplaincy

Togetherness and the HT Olympic Spirit

The mission and purpose of Huntingtower is to be a beneficial presence in the world, to uplift thought and to bless mankind.  This encompassing togetherness works at Huntingtower when we all encourage each other, both students or staff, to recognise and demonstrate our spiritual nature. We need to encourage all of us to express our freedom from limitation and to achieve our best through the power and love of God. This results in very high standards of education at all levels in the school.

We see within House carnivals, orchestras, and in the classroom, amazing collaboration amongst students and staff.  This co-operation can come from the ideal that intelligence is infinite, and we are not competing for a share of a limited resource.   

How wonderful when a small study group of year 12s summarised all their VCE English texts into note form and left their brainstorming on the whiteboard so the entire class benefitted from it.  Or when the senior student leaders sacrificed their time to join in Junior School assemblies and offered peer support. 

This internal unselfish co-operation is like a rising tide that lifts everyone’s thought and the whole standard of the school.

On the 20th of July 2021, the International Olympic Committee approved a change in the Olympic motto that recognises the unifying power of sport and the importance of solidarity. The change added the word “together” after “Faster, Higher, Stronger”. The new Olympic motto now reads in Latin “Citius, Altius, Fortius - Communiter” and “Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together” in English.

In Tokyo we saw this togetherness when Cedric Dubler sacrificed his own race to pace and encourage his compatriot Ash Moloney to secure the bronze medal in the Decathlon. He was the first Australian to achieve medal in that event.  The New Zealand women’s rugby 7s team donated funds to help the competing British team make it to the Olympic Games. 

There are even grander examples, when athletes did what politicians could not. For instance, athletes from East and West Germany competed together as one team for the first time since World War Two or at the 2000 Sydney Olympics when athletes from North and South Korea mingled and marched together as one. 

Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health: “In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all…” She follows on: “The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.”

A Talk on Christian Science

For those who would like to learn a little more about Christian Science and its values that underpin Huntingtower you are invited to join this live online lecture:

Click on this link to see the talk - https://csvic.net.au/Events.htm

Alternatively, for audio only - call into the lecture dial  03 7018 2005  

then Zoom ID 241 99 33 78

The Chaplaincy Team