Editorial
Welcome to the first Kildare Ministries Newsletter for 2025!
As we step into 2025, our theme of Hospitality: Welcoming All has been truly embraced by our schools and community works reflecting their deep commitment to creating places of welcome and inclusion. This newsletter shares some of the many celebrations of welcome across our schools since the year commenced as they warmly welcomed new students and staff into their community. On behalf of the Trustees and all at Kildare Ministries, I extend a very warm welcome to all who have joined our community this year, staff, students, Board Directors, Stewardship Council members, volunteers and families!
Hospitality: Welcoming All calls us not only to open our doors but to actively create spaces where all individuals are treated with dignity, respect, and love. Hospitality is not about comfort or convenience; it is a bold act of radical inclusion. It is about choosing justice over complacency, courage over silence, and love over indifference. While our ministries bear witness to these values, we remain ever mindful of the rising divisions and injustices in our world.
Recently, I was moved by the courageous and authentic leadership of Bishop Mariann Budde at the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on January 21. Bishop Budde challenged world leaders, including Donald Trump, to honour the dignity of every human being and to govern with compassion, mercy, and justice. She called on them to reject division and discrimination, urging them to lead with truth, humility, and love just as Jesus did. Her homily was one of true hospitality.
Bishop Budde’s call tohonour the dignity of every human being by treating all others with respect, kindness and love resonates deeply with our mission, and that of our founders – the Brigidine and Presentation Sisters - to build inclusive communities where all people are valued, and all creation is recognised as sacred. Our schools and our community works stand as powerful examples of this mission in action, by welcoming all, supporting the marginalised and vulnerable, and by advocating for justice and peace in our world.
As we embrace the theme of Hospitality: Welcoming All this year, let us continue to welcome the stranger, offering a place of belonging to all, and work together for a more just and inclusive world.
“God grant us the strength and courage to honour the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love, and to walk humbly with each other and our God for the good of all people. The good of all people in this nation and the world.” Bishop Mariann Budde
