Last week student Board rep Paddy Ferris used Google Docs to ask students about projects for Work Day. The first $1600 brought in is used to support our ChildFund children - and the rest is traditionally used to provide resources for students.
Paddy was probably expecting suggestions like our recent student projects: water filters and chillers, outdoor seating, basketball scoreboard, an outdoor basketball hoop. One thing he was possibly not expecting was a series of requests to spend more money on third world children.
Maybe he should not have been surprised - it was just a fortnight ago when students donated more than $800 to support the people of quake-stricken Nepal: Garin's most generous mufti day ever.
I had explained to students my reasons for disliking mufti days: chief among them a worry that students seemed happy enough to wear mufti - but too many took food off the plates of poor children by not contributing to the associated fundraiser.
Then they made me look silly! And now a week or two later, I was feeling silly again.
And also more than a little proud!
St Paul is very clear about how to be Christian - how to live a Christian life. In his letter to the young church in Rome (13:10) he wrote to love is to obey the whole Law. A simple and very clear summary!
Or, as John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote: All you need is love.
In his old age St John kept repeating: My little children: love one another. When asked why he kept repeating this sentence, he replied that love was enough, if we really love!
So I am proud of your young people. Maybe what these signs show us is that we are becoming more mature as a Christian and Catholic community. Thank you.
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