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Volume 7 - 13 March, 2012 Dear Parents and Students In this Lenten season, I offer this reflec on, from Paul Cou nho SJ, on the grace of compassion that comes through freedom. Let us pray for the grace of being compassionate. In a living rela onship with God, we are connected to and affected by what happens to anyone in life. With an infinitely big God, colour fades away, creed fades away. Good and bad fade away. We can see beyond colour, beyond religion, beyond a person being morally good or bad. As Jesus said, “I condemn the sin but never the sinner.” The sinner is also me. I praise virtue, but again that person who is virtuous is also me. This is when I know I am in a living rela onship with the Divine: when I can relate to another person’s interior being, and I care about the world as much as I care about myself.

When I put this case to my students at the university, one of them challenged, “So in compassion you do not have any freedom!” But as I told this student, freedom comes with response plus ability. The ability to respond is freedom. In charity, my ability to respond is limited to the people I choose to help, the me I choose to give, and the price I’m willing to pay. In compassion, the ability to respond is total.

Let us pray that we might be people of true freedom, able to respond fully with hearts of compassion, not only in mes of our own choosing, but more importantly in mes of God’s choosing. May we long for the freedom to respond with love and compassion. Amen. (Source: Charged with Grandeur, Jim Manney) CONDOLENCES We express our deep sense of shock and sadness at the sudden loss of Mrs Mary Hermo, mother of Janelle in Year 11. To Emmanuel, Albert and Janelle we extend our love and prayers. May our most Gracious God grant eternal loving peace to Mary and may Emmanuel, Albert and Janelle, through our love and support find some comfort and strength in this me of profound grief. We place our ques ons before the mystery of God. Amen. MARY WARD CONNECT Last week, amidst the vibrant excitement of Grease, we welcomed to our community some very special visitors from Loreto Kirribilli and Loreto Ballarat. It was a delight and a pleasure to have them here sharing with us their own stories and experiences of being “Loreto girls”. As part of this Year 10 exchange, some of our own students, likewise travelled interstate to visit these two of our six sister schools. What an adventure for them all. I wish to most sincerely thank the host families (in all three schools) for their great generosity, hospitality and openness in making these girls feel so very welcome. I am delighted that the girls so easily formed friendships and I look forward to these con nuing for them into the future.

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Sincerity

FREEDOM

Verity

Felicity


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