O loving Lord

You have crested mothers in love and blessed them with children.

As the work tirelessly to support their families may they be showered with your blessings.

Give mothers strength to exercise compassion as they live each day under your care.

We pray for mothers around the world who are marginalised in society and those dealing with poverty, war and suffering.

May they be granted the gifts of courage, perseverance and good health.

May they face each new day with faith and hope in your abiding love.

May all families find in the strength of your love the priceless gift of peace.

May all mothers enjoy happiness and spiritual well being to enable them to care for their families.

We ask this prayer through Christ our Lord, Amen. 

Dear friends,

Tomorrow I look forward to celebrating the wonderful gift of our Mothers at our P and F breakfast and Mother's Day Prayer Assembly lead by Year 1 Red.  This will be followed by our Mother's Day stall and I thank in advance Mark Bauer and all the P and F committee members helping with this special occasion. 

This week across all our schools in the Canberra and Goulburn Archdiocese, we are celebrating Catholic Schools Week. The themes for Catholic Schools Week 2019, ‘Engaging Faith, Minds and Community’, best describes the Catholic school experience at Holy Trinity. It illustrates our holistic approach to educating children to become adults who personify Catholic values and serve their communities. The theme highlights the faith based nature of our Catholic schools while emphasising our inclusiveness – that all are welcome. Catholic Schools are places where we strive for all to be engaged in faith, inspire the mind and build strong communities.

Faith – placing Christ at the centre.

Minds – inspiring achievement and the fulfilment of each child’s potential.

Community – to become valuable, caring members of the school and extended community.

Pope Francis at the World Youth Day 2019 final Mass, reflected on the importance of young people for society. He said their gifts are not reserved only for tomorrow. Young people, he said, “are the today for tomorrow. They are not ‘in the meantime’, but are the ‘today’, the ‘now’, of the Church and the world.” To inspire young people of today Catholic Schools are places that embrace their joyful presence and provide a community where young people can personally encounter God through the nurturing words and actions of others. As part of a Catholic community our schools are called to celebrate the gifts and diversity of all its members, inspire the minds and spirit of all those in our midst and help shape the young people to care for and serve those most in need.

It has been an absolute pleasure to take prospective families around our beautiful school and ELC on Tuesday at our first Open day and evening. Thank you to Cath Day, Scott Pearsall, Mark Bauer and our Year 6 leaders who helped with the tours and talking to these families.  It warms my hear to hear the students talk with such pride and knowledge about their school, its values,  learning and caring community. 

Congratulations to the Burnett family (Henry KG) on the arrival of baby no 3, Clancy David, last Friday!

I look forward to seeing many of you tomorrow at the breakfast and/or Prayer assembly and I wish all mothers and families a wonderful, peace-filled weekend.

Philippa