Stewardship - We are inspired to live our faith in relationship with all of God’s creation by being proactive stewards, taking responsibility for the care of our common home and one another.

This term, we have been especially mindful of another of our school values: Stewardship. It is particularly important to take note, this week, of the whole world focus on this very concept. At the recent New York meeting of the United Nations, focusing on Climate Change, important statements, negotiations and discussions have been had by world leaders on the vital attention required right now for the future welfare and health of our planet.

Pope Francis has written and published an encyclical called Laudato Si (2015). He addresses his thoughts to all citizens of the world and comments on the deteriorating relationship between people and nature. So many of his teachings in this encyclical support our growing awareness as Christians of our role as stewards of this great gift of God’s creation to us - Earth and all it contains. Here at St Brigid’s, we have included the notion of stewardship as one of the school values that underpin all that we do and guide us as we learn each day.

Pope Francis reminds us: A true ecological approach (that is, one where we look to care for and improve the health and sustainability of our planet) always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. 

At St Brigid’s, we hope that as our students listen to the ‘cry of the earth’ they also hear ‘the cry of the poor’. Our Church asks us, through its teachings around social justice, to keep thoughts of those who are in need of our compassion and ability to help at the forefront of our efforts, as we care for the environment and consider the future of the Earth.

Let us pray:

As stewards of the Earth, may we grow to be protectors of creation; protectors of God’s plan, inscribed in nature; protectors of one another and of the environment.

Amen.

 

It was been a wonderful term of faith and learning in action. Thank you for your ongoing support of our school community. Have a wonderful pupil vacation with family and friends and I look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Monday 14 October 2019 in full summer uniform.