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Dear Families,
What a big term we have had!
I wish you all a special Easter with family and friends however you choose to celebrate.
I hope the holidays provide a chance for rest, relaxation and regeneration too to head into Term 2 together.
I received this beautiful Easter blessing from the Religious Education Consultants from MACS and wanted to share it with you.
EASTER BLESSING
“On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry – old pains, old habits, old ways of seeing and feeling – and let us have the courage to begin again. Life is very short, and we are no sooner here than it is time to depart again, and we should use to the full the time that we still have.
We don’t realize all the good we can do. A kind, encouraging word or helping hand can bring many a person through dark valleys in their lives. We weren’t put here to make money or to acquire status or reputation. We were sent here to search for the light of Easter in our hearts, and when we find it we are meant to give it away generously. The dawn that is rising this Easter morning is a gift to our hearts and we are meant to celebrate it and to carry away from this holy, ancient place the gifts of healing and light and the courage of a new beginning.”
John O’Donohue
Dawn Mass Reflections at Corcomroe Abbey
Religious Education News
Thank you to Marty, Bethany and the Year 5/6 and Foundation students who enacted the washing of the feet, for the whole school this morning- it was very special to witness the significance of this a special part of the last supper and the students take part and witness this so respectfully.
We have displayed around the school the fourteen Stations of the Cross, which classes visited to took part in a reflection of what happened on Good Friday. We will have them up in the school into next term if you would like to come and see them.
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Take Care & enjoy the break,
Kate Harris
Wellbeing & RE Leader
kharris@shpreston.catholic.edu.au