This week we celebrated our opening school mass. This is a wonderful opportunity for our students, staff and families to come together to celebrate the year ahead. Our Year 6 leaders were inducted and presented to our community, they then had the opportunity to introduce our new Kindergarten students to our community.

I would like to offer a prayer for all of our leaders asking for guidance in their roles for the coming year:

Teach me to Listen

to those nearest to me,
my family, my friends, my co-workers.
Help me to be aware that
no matter what words I hear,
the message is
"Accept the person I am. Listen to me."

Teach me to listen, my caring God,
to those far from me--
the whisper of the hopeless.
the plea of the forgotten,
the cry of the anguished.

Teach me to listen, O God my Mother,
to myself.
Help me to be less afraid
to trust the voice inside--
in the deepest part of me

Teach me to listen, Holy Spirit,
for your voice--
in busyness and in boredom,
in certainty and in doubt,
in noise and in silence.

Teach me, Lord, to listen. Amen.