Dear Parents and Friends,

A very warm welcome back to Term 2. I hope that you had a very happy Easter and some lovely family time together enjoying the magnificent Easter weather. It was wonderful seeing the beautiful smiling faces of our students on the first day back last week. 

I would once again like to sincerely thank the St Brigid’s community for a wonderful Term 1. It was a very busy but successful term, one in which there was so much to celebrate - learning gains, sporting achievements, leadership opportunities, friendships made, and our faith enriched. I'd like to express my gratitude to all those who help make our school a wonderful place to live and grow each day.

While still celebrating the Season of Easter (this Sunday will be the 4th Sunday of Easter), we have also begun the month of May. In our Catholic tradition, this month is given over to devotion to Mary, the mother of Jesus; the same Mary who stood afraid and heartbroken at the foot of the Cross but who also rejoiced, with the other disciples, over Jesus’ resurrection.

During May, our students will learn more of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and our mother too. Her life of love and service, of saying ‘yes’ to God’s plan for her, is one that inspires all of us to reflect, as she did, on what God is asking of us. This month, as we also continue through the Easter season, we turn to Mary as a model of compassion, dignity, motherhood and love. We recall how the completion of the mission of Jesus was made possible through her role of obedience, faith and hope.

Students will learn more of the life and role of Mary, “joined by an inseparable bond to the saving work of her Son” (Vatican Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), along with prayers and other devotions still practised in our Catholic tradition.

O Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia!

For he whom you did merit to bear, alleluia!

Has risen as he said, alleluia!

(from the Regina Coeli)

Yours in Faith, Justice and Learning,