LORETO COLLEGE COORPAROO P O Box 1726, COORPAROO DC QLD 4151 Telephone: 07 3394 9999
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8 March 2011
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Dear Parents and Students
As we enter the season of Lent we seek to reflect deeply upon our lives and the way in which we choose to live. May we be people of compassion, love and service, who seek out possibilities, with open hearts and minds, to make a difference in all we do.
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“All around are possibilities of doing good, and making the world richer for your having lived in it”. Mother Gonzaga Barry IBVM 1893 “Cultivate large‐mindedness; let there be nothing petty and narrow in your views, judgements and opinions”. Mother Gonzaga Barry IBVM 1897
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Dear God, During this Lenten Season we give thanks for places of simplicity and peace. Let us find such a place within ourselves. We give thanks for places of refuge and beauty. Let us find such a place within our‐ selves. We give thanks for places of nature’s truth and freedom, of joy, inspiration and renewal, places where all creatures may find acceptance and belonging. Let us search for these places: in the world, in ourselves and in others. Let us restore them. Let us strengthen and protect them and let us create them. May we mend this outer world according to the truth of our inner life and may our souls be shaped and nourished by nature’s eternal wisdom. Amen.
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May your pathway lead you closer to God. A pathway to the Chapel of “Our Lady of Mount Grace” in Osmotherley, Yorkshire. This was a special place of grace and prayer for Mary Ward. It is a place of ‘Holy Ground’. In 1642, after recovering from serious illness, Mary Ward walked up the hillside from Hutton Rudby to pray in the Mount Grace Chapel in thanksgiving for her renewed strength. MARY WARD CONNECT This week twelve of our beautiful Year 10’s will travel as ambassadors from Loreto Coorparoo on exchange to Loreto Ballarat and Loreto Normanhurst in celebration of our heritage and our national Loreto story. At the same time, we will welcome visiting students and staff to Queensland from both of these Loreto schools in Victoria and New South Wales.
This exchange aims to strengthen our interstate Loreto connections and to deepen the students’ understanding of the Loreto story in Australia. It will be an exciting time for all Loreto schools around Australia this week as we share and rejoice together in what it is that makes Loreto schools so special. I will certainly be very keen and interested to hear the girls’ reflections at week’s end upon the experience.