Happy Feast Day everyone!  I know that Mr Dempsey covered a bit around Feast Day in his newsletter, but I thought I would also make mention of this important day in our schools calendar.  

As a school, we are fortunate to be named after St Benedict, who was an Italian monk who lived in the 5th Century AD (that’s a long time ago!).  He is remembered for creating “The Rule of St Benedict”, which contained rules for monks of how to live in community in Monasteries.  Whilst not a monastery, there is much we can (and have) taken from these rules in our school community.  The most obvious place to start is with the Benedictine Monastic motto - Pax, Ora et Labora.  This is Latin for Peace, Prayer and Hard Work.  Fr Joseph spoke of this at our who school mass this morning, that this is really a call to action.  We are called to be people of Peace and act in a peace filled manner every day.  We are also called to be prayerful and to work hard - or always put in our best effort.  It’s amazing that these rules, created over a millennium ago, are still relevant to our community day.  And so today we celebrate St Benedict, who leads us to a relationship with God and Jesus and is central to our schools Catholic Identity.

Weekly Assemblies DATE CLAIMER

Our assemblies this term will remain on a Friday at 8:45am in the Hall.   Please see the timetable below, as well a which buddy classes will have ‘Open Classrooms’ following Friday assemblies. 

Pax,

Nick