21st February, 2017 Reflection O Christ, our Morning Star, Splendour of Light Eternal, shining with the glory of the rainbow, come and waken us from the greyness of our apathy, and renew in us your gift of hope. Amen. (Bede the Venerable)
Dear Parents and Students, Term One happenings Our Year 9’s headed off to their ‘Rite Journey’ Camp on Monday and the Year 8’s will follow next week as they journey down to Anglesea. Our Year 7’s are settling in well - their camp is later in the term I hope the weather improves from the 13 degrees last Sunday for these activities!
Below are excerpts from Father Patrick Boland’s Homily at the College opening Mass Throughout this year, every student here will be given the opportunity to learn across all the disciplines. Statistics, Calculus, Science, English, Geography, Agriculture and Religion. Students will be tested, and encouraged to excel, to do your best, to improve your results, to make the most of the opportunities that you have here. And that’s very important, because we need the knowledge. Some schools will stop right there, and place all their emphasis on knowledge, on academic results. But CRC is not like other schools, CRC is a Catholic School, in name and in identity, and what makes us different from other schools is that we’re not only concerned with knowledge, we’re also interested in the heart. Not about what we know, but who we love, who we care about and who we have been created to worship. We are called as teachers and leaders and priests not just to focus on knowledge and information, but to bring the head and the heart together as one, as Jesus’ sacred heart burned with love, and his soul overflowed with the love for his Father, the Holy Spirit, and man and woman who were created in their image. This was a truth that Adam and Eve tragically missed, because their head and their hearts were disconnected. They didn’t know who God really was, and they didn’t have that deep trust and friendship with him, so they chose death instead of life. They wanted to keep the little they had, and so they missed the abundance that God wanted to bestow. My prayer for each one of you today is that you will know what it means to be truly free, to choose good, to choose life at every moment, so that your life will stand for something. So the school motto would become a statement about your life: “In all things let God be glorified”. Mark Sheehan Principal
Parents & Friends Our first meeting for 2017 is tomorrow, Wednesday February 22nd starting at 7.30pm. All welcome, especially parents new to the school.