LIVIN G CHAPLAINCY
Exploring wabi-sabi
Every year during Term 2, we hold Sunday Chapel services for each of our Houses. For Year 7 to 13, the House Prefect and deputies work together to decide on a theme for the service, select Bible readings to support their theme, find a contemporary reading, poem or video clip, and assign serving and reading roles to students in their House. The House Prefect then prepares the homily for the service. As Chaplains, we facilitate all of this and work with the prefect on her homily. We have now come to the end of the eight services for the Senior School and there have been some excellent homilies given by our students. The House Service is the one opportunity that a prefect gets to talk to the students in the House about 42
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something significant that is not about cross country, swimming, athletics or music. Some prefects already have a very clear idea of what they want to talk about and others have to think quite hard about what theme they want to address. The themes we have had this year included ideas around making the most of every opportunity, resilience and moving forward from adversity, being yourself and accepting who you are, believing in yourself, unity, and community and participation. Resilience has been a recurring theme of our House Services over the past few years. One of the enemies of resilience is perfectionism, and perfectionism is a significant issue for many teenage
girls. Roberton House Prefect Lexie Preen uncovered a Japanese concept that has a lot to offer not only our students but everyone who struggles with perfectionism and therefore finds it hard to be resilient, and accept failure and the imperfection of real life. Lexie’s homily was both challenging and engaging. Here it is below. Rev’d Sandy Robertson, Chaplain
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