Religious Life Round Up!

From the start to the finish of this academic year our GIFT Chaplains have continued to support the religious life of our school. Continuing on with weekly Masses, Chaplains have served alongside Fr Nicholas showing great dedication to their faith by reading and altar serving during the Masses held in the Chapel at lunchtime.

Writer Award, which invites them to produce a piece of creative writing, addressing the features and functions of a Catholic Church. As well as this, our Chaplains are kindly offering to help a neighbouring school train up their new GIFT Chaplaincy Team, teaching them the ways in which they too can spread the word of God through their school and community.

Active work has involved Chaplains learning and deepening their knowledge in different parts of Popular Piety. Earlier on in the year Chaplains engaged with Eucharistic Adoration, reflecting on the significance of the Eucharist, showing devotion and reverence to the divine. More recently, during the month of May, Chaplains have been taught the significance of the Rosary and what each Mystery represents. This enables our

Chaplains to really focus on the different events during Jesus and Marys life and how those events have impacted our Catholic Christian beliefs today.

To finish off the month of May, some of our younger GIFT Chaplains had the opportunity to go on a Pentecost Retreat, held by Just Youth accompanied by Fr Joel and Fr Nicholas at the Spiritan Centre in Salford. During the day, our Chaplains had the chance to meet other GIFT Chaplains from many other schools within the diocese. Chaplains joined together expressing their faith through singing hymns, receiving Mass and reflecting on the gifts of the Pentecost.

Throughout the Summer term, all pupils and staff were invited to have ‘Breakfast with Jesus’ on a Tuesday morning. This is a lovely event held by Fr Nicholas to encourage pupils and staff to have open discussions about faith in our modern world!

In June we said our final goodbyes to our wonderful Year 11 pupils. We came together with staff, pupils and families to celebrate their time and Our Lady’s through prayer and worship.

Coming up to finish off this year, our GIFT Chaplains are entering the Young Catholic

Some of our KS4 GIFT Chaplains have been invited to attend a taster day based around Chaplaincy in further education at Loreto Sixth Form which will take place in the month of July and lastly we look forward to helping out with the end of year Masses as well as saying good luck and farewell to the Year 11 cohort, who we will wish many blessings on during their Leavers Mass.