From the APRIM - James Lloyd
Welcome to Term 4!
I hope that your holidays were filled with many happy moments. The term break is a great chance to take a deep breath and reflect on our own journey. As we begin a new term, I hope that you find many moments to treasure.
There are a few liturgical celebrations in the coming weeks which I draw your attention to - on Thursday November 1st, we celebrate the Feast of All Saints. The following day, Friday November 2nd, we celebrate the Feast of All Souls. These are significant days in our faith life and as such, we will celebrate whole school prayer services on both days at 9:15am in the hall.
Please jot these dates and times in your diaries and join us for prayer.
Yesterday, I was sent a beautiful ‘prayer for parents’ from a family here at school. This prayer may be one you print off and keep in a special place and reflect on during your own child’s journey.
Dear Father in heaven, here are our children. We give them to You. Reach out and touch them with the finger of Your love, so they will stop where they are, sense Your presence and turn to You. Take them and make them what You want, not what we want.
Call them to adventures You have planned for them, not what we aspire to for them. Keep them from sin, but if they sin, draw them back to You. Keep them from smallness of spirit. Help them to know themselves, and enjoy the person You created them to be. Help them to use their gifts to serve You. Help them to plunge deep into the mystery of their union with You and love You above all things.
As for us, help us to love them without possessiveness. Help us to be firm and protect them when we must. Help us to be patient while they strive to find themselves. Help us to respect them for what You made them to be. Help us to guide them with Your wisdom. Help us to love letting them go.
And when the work is done, and they are formed, and raised, and gone, help us to turn back to You, without our children, and continue the journey wiser and more understanding of You and Your way with all people, because we have born children of our own.
Amen
Wishing you many blessings for the week ahead.