Reflection

As this Newsletter comes out the students in Year 12 students are getting very close to their last classes at Nazareth College.  It seems like only the other day we were together for their start of Year 12 Retreat and yet here we are with VCE students days away from the start of the exams and the VCAL students are preparing for their next big step as they begin a new chapter in their life post Nazareth College. 

At the Retreat at the start of their Year 12 journey the students were encouraged as they began this big year in their life to invite God into all that they are living.  As our Year 12 students come to this new spot in their journey, we pray again asking God to be close to them, to bless them, to guide them and protect them in the times ahead. We invite all our community to join us in praying for the Year 12 Class of 2018 in a special way at this time.

This also leads us to reflect on our own lives, that are themselves each day full of decisions, choices and opportunities.  As Catholics we believe that God is always with us. We also believe that God not only created us, but that He loves us more than we could possibly imagine and became man, lived, suffered, offered His life and died for all of us and our salvation.  It is very clear that our lives take on potential, depth and richness beyond what we can imagine when we live in union with God. Our God of love, waits for each of us, desires deeply that we would draw closer to Him and is burning with love for us.  Love invites a responses and the usual response to love is love.

We pray that the Holy Spirit can fill our hearts with love.  A love that will give us a desire to spend time with God in prayer and grow in love.  A love that will lead us to come to Him in the Eucharist, the sacrament of love, where Our Lord offers Himself for us and for all. A love that will also lead us to look out for the needs of others, to think of others before ourselves, to be generous in serving others and to desire always the good of others.

We give thanks to God for the gift of our lives and for His great love for us.  We pray that as we walk at this stage of our life journey and at every step we may be always walking closely with Jesus and be drawn more deeply into His love.

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