A word from the Chaplain Our year began with Mass to mark the start of the academic year, at which time we welcomed back our high achievers to recognize the fulfilment of their hard work and also invested the College Leaders for 2014.
Ash Wednesday took a new turn this year with individual Homeroom liturgies. It is a major event in the liturgical year and an opportunity at the beginning of the year to establish a spiritual presence in the College, especially for the new cohort. Student Special Ministers Once again we invited a group of students to undertake a training program to serve the DLS community as Special Ministers of the Eucharist. These impressive young men offered their peer group a special example of faith in action.
The Year 7 Spiritual Initiation Program “Celebrating Catholic Life” has spanned the year, taking in all Year 7 students in small groups. The program serves to welcome and initiate students into both the Catholicity of the College and an understanding of the Lasallian ethos; which involves them in reflection, discussion and searching to discover their own beliefs, creeds, spiritual celebration and determination in the road ahead. We aim in this initiation program to help the boys tap into their own inner strength and goodness and consider ways in which they can use their gifts to make a difference during their years at De La Salle and in the wider world. Easter Season Following a whole school memorial of the Easter Feasts, our primary classes gathered for their own pageant. Year 6 students had prepared Stations of the Cross in sculptured wire and to the music of Avici’s Hey Brother portrayed the Gospel accounts in cameo performances. The Year 4 students, under the creative eye of Mrs Finn, wove together a tapestry of the Easter story in an art work created in an Australian indigenous representation. The Year 5 students highlighted the message by leading us all in a festival of light as each student added their lit taper to the sand, we were reminded in song that Jesus asked us to “Do this in Memory of Me”.
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