We now only have 3 weeks remaining in the term! I can break that down further to only 15 days, which doesn’t sound like a whole lot!  There are of course plenty of events still to come to finish our year off in style, so don’t forget to check out our flyers below and any updates on our school pages.  

Monday began with a beautiful Remembrance Day liturgy led by students in our Defence Families.  We were also fortunate to have Sargent Aircrewman Matthew Clyne join us to share what Remembrance Day meant to him, as well as a visit from Fr Dave to share some wisdom, reminding us all that peace begins with us.

During the week I was sent an article written by a Benedictine Sister, Joan Chittister in regards to the idea of ‘time’.  Knowing that we are in a ‘busy’ time of the year, I wanted to include a section of her article which urges us to take a moment each day.  Please read:

I have only just a minute,

Only 60 seconds in it.

Given to me, didn’t choose it.

Mustn’t waste it, can’t refuse it.

But I must suffer if I lose it.

We are, in fact, obsessed with time. We’re a pragmatic, productive people, and time is the national God. It shows in our language. No other people on earth speak of time as we do. We spend time and invest time and need time and lose time and save time and waste time and find time and buy time and gain time and want time. And, in the end, time, not life, threatens to absorb us.

Time, we assume, is for doing something, for producing things, for achieving goals. And in our commitment to pragmatism and effectiveness, we far too often fail to realize that life is really about becoming a person of merit and worth. It might be useful to take a moment each day to give more serious consideration to what we are becoming rather than what we are doing as time goes by.

—from The Sacred In-Between by Joan Chittister (Twenty-Third Publications)

Have a great week and God bless,

Nick