Religious Education
Welcome back to Term 2. Celebrating Easter Sunday, is always prayerful and challenging at the same time. My family celebrated it at an ecumenical service on a beach at sunrise. To read the scripture passage and be invited to be in closer relationship with God, was breathtakingly beautiful in the setting and also showed us the power of God’s creation and the gift of new life. In the Easter Message to the Melbourne Archdiocese for 2018, Archbishop Denis Hart observed that in all of the gospels’ Resurrection stories, Jesus appears still wounded, a parallel between the risen Jesus and ourselves, as a wounded community, a hurting world. Amidst the joy and the beauty of our lives, there will still be wounds, he reminds us. It is in our own closeness to the wounded and yet resurrected Christ that our own wounds may, in fact, bring healing to others. We are people of the Resurrection, the Archbishop reminds us, and in fact our own inevitable wounds, like those of Christ, can heal others. The Archbishop continues by reminding us that, because we see so clearly through the eyes of faith, the wounded and risen Jesus, the healer, is still among us in our own communities of healers, caregivers, nurses, teachers, social services providers, even in the heroism of parents. Furthering the analogy, the Archbishop says that our wounds themselves can become veritable fountains, with compassion and hope flowing out into our communities.
This, said Archbishop Hart, is the power of Christ’s Resurrection. Please see the link below for his Easter address.
Melbourne's Archbishop Denis Hart presents his Easter Message for 2018
On Monday at assembly we had the Preps and Year 1's sharing their message of “ Alleluia he is risen, Alleluia he’s alive…” The joy on their faces and their gusto with which they all sang embodied the Easter message for all present.
Our opening prayer with the staff this Monday was one for all teachers/school staff and parents as you are your children’s first teacher. It was centred around “the courage it takes to be a teacher and it takes the unalterable love for the child; only the brave should teach.” by Chris Gleeson, A Canopy of Stars. It speaks to us of only those who love the young should teach. Teaching is not a livelihood but a vocation. “It is a sacred as priesthood, as innate as a desire, as inseparable as the genius who compels a great artist.”
We ask God to be with us all and support us to be brave and courageous as we journey through Term 2.
Condolences
Our thoughts and prayers are offered to Amanda McCurdy - 6M teacher, Jake and family on the recent death of her Nonna, Pina Longiaru. May she rest in Peace.
Our thoughts and prayers are offered to Michael, Robyn, Chloe A - 6H and Jasmine A - 4D on the recent death of their Uncle, Alan Tyler. May he rest in Peace.