Living with Strength and Kindliness

Taking Action for Social Justice in Lent

Dear Parents and Guardians,

If you follow our Facebook page you will have noticed that we posted an online petition at the start of Lent.

As we wrap up Lent in the coming week, I would like to invite you to consider taking action in signing this petition.

These past weeks during Lent in our Kildare school community, we have been reflecting on those within our wider communities who feel excluded, who feel trapped in isolation leading to despair.  There are moments when all of us can feel isolated by loneliness, grief, fear or anxiety.  And there are many people in our world rendered isolated by unjust structures which rob them of their dignity.  Many people can feel hopeless, and yet we can offer hope. We can refuse to deny freedom to people. We possess a freedom that allows us all to use our minds, our imaginations, our intellects and our voices to shape a world where indeed all people are valued, where all creation is recognised as sacred and where hope, justice and courage are our hallmarks.  A world where people flourish and we produce a victory against a system that reduces people to numbers.

Please consider signing this petition to be presented to government as a testimony that we care and to advocate on behalf of those who are suffering.

You are welcome to share the link as widely as you are inspired to.

Simply Click the link below if you feel moved to.

Address the Mental Health Crisis in Australian Immigration Detention Centres

Please note that despite directing you to a fundraising page and asking for your signature on social media.  There is no requirement for you to share their signature on social media (uncheck these options and delete resulting email asking for social media shares) unless you choose to and absolutely no fundraising is attached to this petition.