Reflection

Hopefully, we are about to come out of lockdown soon, but the following is some insights on the topic from Pope Francis:

Message from Pope Francis about Lockdown

'I do not consider this as ISOLATION/Lockdown having to stay at home with whom we love. 

* Isolation is what the seriously ill are experiencing in hospital. 

* Stop saying that you are bored, upset that you can't leave the house; while everyone in the hospital wants to go home. 

* So, thank God if you have to stay at home, because despite everything, with money or without money, with a job or without a job, you have a home.

* Perhaps it is time to transform your house into a wonderful place to stay, a place of peace and not of war, of embrace and not of distance. 

* Anyway, look with different eyes at the situation you are experiencing !! 

* Make your house a party:  Listen to music, sing, dance... 

* Make your house a place of worship: Pray, pray, meditate, ask, thank, praise, plead ... 

* Make your home a school: Read, write, draw, paint, study, learn, teach ... 

* Make your house a store: Clean, order, organize, decorate, label, move, sell, donate ... 

* Make your house a restaurant: Cook, eat, try, create recipes, grow spices, plant a garden. 

 * Exercise and be fit as it is said in the Bible 1 Corinthians 6-19: 'your body is a temple'.

 * Take care of yourself anyway ... 

* Make your house, your family, a place of love. Make the best possible use of this

 once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.'

https://stsimonsparish.com.au/documents/2021/6/Message%20from%20Pope%20Francis-3.pdf

Let us be grateful for all the wonderful work done by students, parents, carers, teachers and other Nazareth College staff during this latest lockdown!

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