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Volume 8 - 20 March, 2012 Dear Parents and Students In the season of Lent, as we make me to stop, to be quiet and s ll and to be deeply reflec ve, we begin the steps of an inner journey. The Jesuit fathers offer us this perspec ve on our inner journey.
My Inner Journey We believe that the Father is drawing us to himself through every moment of our life and in every fibre of our being. The best way to foster our inner journey is through prayer that meets Jesus on the level of the heart. We tell him what is going on inside us, not to give him informa on, but simply to meet him at that level – to tell him not only what is happening to us, but what is happening in us. For example, we all have the experience of being worried or living with fear. Once our concerns start to build up and threaten to overwhelm us, a very simple prayer is to say – “Jesus, be in this worry and redeem it; be in this fear and redeem it.” If we keep saying this prayer (and some mes it is quite a ba le) we will experience that the concern will die down and our anxiety will grow less. Why? Because we have shi ed the focus of our heart from the worry and the fear to the presence of Jesus. His presence always changes the way we see and experience things. The mistake that so many of us make is that in our prayer we move the ac on from the heart to the head, trying to work out our problems and solve them. When we do this, we lose contact with Jesus because we become beset by intellectual ques ons. Most of life’s ques ons don’t start in the head; they start in the heart and that’s the only place to deal with them. The level where our head and our heart meet, is where the Spirit is at work. Here, we touch our truth, the level of our integrity. When the head and the heart and the Spirit are all in line, we experience an ease, a rightness in what we are doing. On the other hand, if either the head or the heart are out of line or not in line with the Spirit, we experience a dis‐ease. We become fragmented. Let us pray for the grace of Freedom that comes through prayer that meets Jesus on the level of the heart. Amen. Visit from Sr Diaan Stuart IBVM Yesterday we were fortunate to welcome back to Loreto Coorparoo Sr Diaan Stuart. Sr Diaan is a past pupil of Loreto Cooparoo and a former Principal of both Loreto Normanhurst and Loreto Marryatville. In more recent mes however, she has been working in the area of teacher training and educa on in Bacau in Timor Leste. Yesterday she visited a number of classes from different year levels to share news of her work there and her perspec ves on the many
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