Assistant Principal - Religious Identity & Mission 

ANZAC Day 2024

Last Thursday, approximately 50 of our students represented St Virgil’s College in the Hobart ANZAC Day parade. Tom Marr, College Captain, laid a wreath on behalf of the college, as did Tyler Barrett (Year 12), who represented the college at the Claremont service held at the Windemere Community Foreshore Park. Thank you to the students, staff, and families who turned out at the many Anzac Day services across the greater Hobart area.

As we gathered last Thursday, we remembered the mothers and fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and children who have suffered through the effects of war. The emotional wounds of war should never be forgotten. May we appreciate the great gift of the ordinariness of our lives, so that we might always share our care and compassion with those who most need our help.

“As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”  

John (15: 9,12,13) 

This is the live broadcast from ABC Australia which had a full coverage of the Hobart ANZAC Day services and parade. 

Edmund Rice Feast Day 

Today, we gathered as a whole College to celebrate our founder, Blessed Edmund Rice, whose feast day falls on Sunday 5 May. Blessed Edmund Rice started a school in Waterford for underprivileged boys to gain an education and an innate spiritual understanding of Christ. Throughout the day, we undertook numerous activities that reflected the Catholic values and virtues St Virgil’s was founded on.

Students started the day with Mass, officiated by Father Suresh. After the Mass, we all partook in a sausage sizzle and then participated in a range of activities.