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Volume 18 - 9 June, 2015 Dear Parents & Students In this year of Verity I offer this prayer as a source of reflection.
Meet your face in the mirror and let it grow its smile or whatever truth is emerging from the world of your inside. Let that face you see be free to express its opening out, to be sad or serious, jovial or joyful strong or gentle, to play and horse about without the control that holds it back and flattens its coming out. Look deep into those eyes you see deep into that world inside down below the vanity and see the Love alive that’s there and has been there all the while wanting so much for you to see it to be aware it’s always burning there ready to inflame your every deed. Noel Davis
LORETO PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOL OPENS IN TIMOR LESTE I am delighted to share with you the news from our Loreto Sisters working in Timor Leste that this week they opened the first Loreto Pre-Primary School in the remote area of Gari-uai. The Pre-Primary school opened on 1 June in a refurbished community building and will later this year move to a new building, currently under construction. The full Primary School is planned to open in 2016. The Loreto Sisters presently working in Timor Leste are Sisters Margie Bourke, Natalie Houlihan, Diaan Stuart and Francine Roberts. In the spirit of Mary Ward they are working “to love the poor and to persevere in the same.” as inscripted on Mary Ward’s tombstone in 1645. Timor Leste, located over 400 kilometres north of Australia, is one of the least developed countries in the world, with basic health, literacy and income levels similar to sub-Saharan Africa.
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