5th December, 2017 Reflection A special care for all Creator God, in your love you have a special care for all that you have made. May we grow in the faith that you ‘enfold us in your love’ and that everything does work out for good for those who love you: that ‘all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well’. Amen
Dear Parents and Students, Reports Reports will be available to all parents on Thursday 7th December at 3:00pm. Christmas 2017 The end of the school year is upon us and our thoughts are turning to preparations for Christmas and the school holidays The scene of the baby born in the stable in Bethlehem, with his mother Mary and her husband Joseph, has great charm and the power to influence lives. The home of Nazareth is the school where we begin to understand the life of Jesus. We need to look, to listen, to meditate and penetrate the meaning – at once so deep and so mysterious – of this very simple, very humble and very beautiful manifestation of the Son of God. Some lessons from Nazareth: First, a lesson of silence. May esteem for silence, that admirable and indispensable condition of mind, be revived in us, besieged as we are by the general noise and uproar of modern life. May the silence of Nazareth teach us the value of study and the prayer, which God alone sees in secret. Next, there is a lesson on family life. Let us learn from Nazareth that the formation received at home is irreplaceable and that family life, which is a communion of love, has a sacred and inviolable character. Finally, there is a lesson of work. Nazareth, home of the ‘carpenter’s son’. In you I would choose to understand the severe and redeeming law of human work. I reaffirm that work cannot be an end in itself, but that its excellence derives from those for whose sake it is undertaken. May parents, staff and students experience the gift of peace this Christmas, and may that peace of Christ, which is his gift, endure in your hearts and minds throughout the coming year. Mark Sheehan Principal