Opening School Mass

Our Opening Mass was held last week and was a lovely way to begin the school year. Thank you to Father George and congratulations to our Year 6 students on being formally inducted as leaders at our school. It was also a beautiful opportunity to welcome our new students. We look forward to a fantastic 2021 as a school community.

Staff Spirituality Day

On the last staff development day, before the commencement of the term, staff participated in a Spirituality Day. The theme of the day was for staff to contemplate the face of Jesus, and identifying what others saw in Jesus and how these same qualities can be seen in all of us today. The understanding that teachers are the face of Jesus allows us to work towards achieving the mission of the Church. In his Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, His Holiness John Paul II tells us: “’We wish to see Jesus’ (Jn 12:21) and it is through contemplating the face of Jesus that we are able to discover the loving face of God. 

The aim of the day was to begin, reignite or continue a spiritual journey of discovery, reflecting on the face of Christ over time, how we relate to His face and how through renewal of prayer and realisation we can identify, or be identified as, the face of Christ in our everyday lives and as teachers at St Mary’s.