Welcome to the end of Week 4! Our Year 4 Butterflies lead us beautifully in assembly today on the theme of Mother’s Day.  Their prayer called us to value and appreciate our mother’s and spoke about how they embody God’s love through how they nurture, care for and  love us.

Next week in Australia we celebrate ‘Laudato Si’ week.  This year is the 7th anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical letter calling ALL people to ‘Care for our Common Home’.  The letter helps Catholics to understand the connection that people have to the whole of creation and that caring for the Earth is a big way that we can live out our faith.  In the letter he states that, “All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience, involvements and talents”.  At St Benedict’s, Laudato Si formed the basis  of many of the wonderful environmental initiatives that we have undertaken, even before we opened the school as a wonderful and simple way of living out our Catholic faith.  We look forward to hearing about how classes have celebrated God’s call to care for our environment.  THIS LINK to TCE Connect is an article which gives you further information as well as a link to some resources you may like to look out.

Pax

Nick