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Volume 14 - 15 May, 2012 Dear Parents and Students Today I call for your con nued prayers for Megan Rejfek, Class of 2011. Last Friday, Megan suffered a sudden and serious brain aneurism. Of course, this has been an enormous shock for all of us. We pray for Megan, her parents Anne‐Maree and John, her family and her many friends. We pray too for her surgeons, her doctors and the medical team in Intensive Care who are working to support Megan. May the Holy Spirit be with us in our prayers as we hope and pray together for courage, strength and healing. Amen. WELCOME This week we welcome to Brisbane our new Church leader, His Grace, Archbishop Mark Coleridge. We look forward to his stewardship and guidance and pray that his me in office may be graced with wisdom, love and hope. Yesterday, I was fortunate to be present (with our student leaders) at a gathering of student leaders from the Brisbane Diocese Catholic Secondary Schools, when His Grace addressed the students. He spoke passionately to them about their role as leaders of the Church today (not future leaders of the Church but today’s leaders). He urged them to be “light for the world”: to use and harness their own light; to be young people reaching out and serving others. His prayer for them was powerful and mo va ng. MISSION DAY I offer congratula ons and thanks to the whole community for their marvellous Mission Day efforts. The student leaders, in par cular, deserve praise for their crea vity, leadership, organisa on and passion. Both the Choirs and the Jazz dances were fabulous. In addi on to raising awareness amongst the students of the plight of the world's poorest peoples, the students also raised over $8000 to be distributed between Mary Ward Interna onal, Caritas and St Vincent De Paul. I thank the staff too for their keen par cipa on and involvement, with a special men on going to the awesome "No Direc on" boy band and their devoted "screaming groupies".
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