Big Week for our Leaders

Principals and Managers Meetings

The usual network meetings for our Principals and Mangers of Community Works took place last week on 13-14 June. On Wednesday the 13th June, the work was facilitated by Kevin Lenehan as we further explored practical and innovative ways to engage our young people in our Catholic culture.  Kevin built upon the work conducted last term, in examining the current social context and encouraged our principals to be open to new and different ways of leading our religious celebrations. He talked about our ministries being VUCA Communities – volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous and drew the similarity to a broken egg – once the egg is cracked, you can’t put it back together! 

Challenging questions were asked.  For example, what is the balance between mystery and reason? Whose religion and how do we talk about God in this day? What sort of faith are we promoting and does our Religious Education programme provide an opportunity to meet Christ and God as a living reality in our young peoples’ lives?  Not easy answers to these but well worth thinking about.

Our community works leaders also come together to keep exploring ways in which we can enjoy an inter-connected relationship with our schools.  Again this is work in progress but we will continue to discuss and reflect further.