Catholic Life & Reflection
What Staff are Learning About
This week at the REC meeting I attended we talked about how to embed Catholic Social Teaching into our curriculum. It was an interesting conversation and one I will continue to have with our staff over the next year and beyond.
I will admit I am more familiar with some than others. I will keep you posted about our journey to deepen our faith by focusing on justice and charity. If you would like to know more information you can start by looking at the Caritas website, https://www.caritas.org.au/learn/cst
What Students are Learning About
Last week we celebrated the Feast of the Assumption. Usually we have mass as a whole school but we were unable to this year. So teachers and students celebrated together in their classroom. Year 6 were lucky enough to also participate in a lesson from Clare, our Youth Minister, about the Rosary. They loved it so much they stayed in to finish after the bell went for lunch.
Catholic Life and Reflection
We also had a staff faith formation meeting about forgiveness. We started with this reflection.
“Two monks were once travelling together down a wet and muddy road. The rain was torrential, making it almost impossible to walk along the path. As the two men were trudging along, a beautiful girl dressed in silk appeared. She was unable to cross the path and looked distressed.
“Let me help you”, said the older monk. He picked her up and carried her over the mud. His younger male companion did not utter a word that night until they reached their lodging temple. Then after hours of restrained conversation, the younger monk exclaimed: “We monks do not touch females; it is too tempting for us and can create a bad outcome”. The older monk looked into the younger monks eyes and said, “I left the girl on the road. Are you still carrying her?”
Forgiveness was the focus because of a story I heard about the Japanese salvage company that helped clean up Darwin Harbour in the mid 50’s. On the 75th Anniversary of the end of the war in the Pacific it was quite poignant to read. You can see their story by clicking on the link below.
If these men and women understood the scripture from Matthew 18:22
Forgiveness
21 Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if another member of the church[a] sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven[b] times.I reminded staff that it is not only about forgiving others but themselves too! We may be created in the image and likeness of God, but were are only human.Religious Education Coordinator
