Welcome to the end of another busy week at St Benedict’s.  We started this week with assembly presented by our 5/6 Turtles about the Month of Prayer for Creation.  With Stewardship being one of the four values at St Benny’s, the Prayer for Creation is something very important in our community.  In the words of Pope Francis in his Encyclical - Laudato Si;

“Let us be protectors of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and the environment”.

Our Catholic Identity Committee (made up of teachers and school officers) have created a guided meditation about creation which they have shared with all classes to look at and pray with during the month of September.  We will also be using this at our end of term Whole School Meditation, taking place in ‘the Hall’ on Monday 16 September at 8:45am. ALL are welcome to attend this event.

On the Value of Stewardship, another event for the diaries is our St Benedict’s Eco Fest.  This will also be taking place on Monday 16 September in ‘the Hall’ between 11:30am and 1:00pm.  We have a range of community members sharing their knowledge as well as showing off what ALL our classes have been working on in their eProjects throughout the year.  Again, ALL members of our community are welcome to attend   

This Sunday is Father's Day, a time to be grateful for and acknowledge all of the father and father figures in our lives.  I hope that everyone gets a chance over the weekend to be able to do this. Our Prep Platypus class will be presenting assembly about Father's Day at 8:45am in ‘the Hall’.  With this is mind, I wanted to leave you all this week with a prayer for Fathers:

Have a great week and God bless,

Nick