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Principal's Reflection
This morning we celebrated our first all-school Mass. Praying together is what binds us as a faith community. The liturgy is how we live the First Commandment, and do what Jesus asks of us: “do this in remembrance of me.” It was my first time experiencing all of us in church and it truly warmed my heart to see children sitting with family members, classes praying together, our student choir praising God in song, and young people proclaiming the word. In his homily, Father Jim reminded us that we are the hands and feet of God, seeds spread throughout the community. This reminded me of a lovely quote from St Teresa of Avila, the first woman doctor of the church. St Teresa reminds us that:
Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which He looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which He blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are His body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
How will we be the hands and feet of Christ this year?
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