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Chaplain’s Corner – Senior School
I recently read this quote from Mahatma Gandhi: ‘The things that will destroy us are: Politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character...
09 May 2019
Chaplain’s Corner
On Friday after school as we were travelling by taxi to the Homework Club, I mentioned to the driver about the tragedy unfolding in Christchurch. He said ‘I know, my friend’s cousin has...
21 March 2019
Chaplain’s Corner
Last week was a shocking week. The revelation that Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric had been found guilty of abusing teenage boys struck at the heart of faith and trust.
07 March 2019
Chaplain’s Corner
This week in Chapel I spoke on ‘Faith, Hope and Love’. Almost 2000 years ago, St Paul wrote a letter to the church at Corinth of the importance of all three. He finished his letter with the words...
26 February 2019
Chaplain’s Corner
This year’s National Reconciliation Week is running from Tuesday 23 May to this Saturday 3 June. A simple definition of reconciliation is to ‘resume friendship after a time of enmity’. When reconciliation is experienced it brings healing.
01 June 2017
Chaplain’s Corner
Bitterness and greed are two attitudes that reap a destructive harvest after they take root and are nurtured. I am often interested in how people react when they don’t get what they think they deserve, or when they lose a position they believe should be theirs.
02 March 2017
Chaplain’s Corner
Last Friday at the Senior School Christmas Service the choir sang ‘O Holy Night’ and did so superbly. It is a beautiful carol that was written by a French poet after a request from his parish priest.
08 December 2016
Chaplain’s Corner
This coming Sunday, commencing at 10.30am, we will be holding the annual Memorial Service for people within the Carey community who have lost loved ones over the past 12 months. It is a time to reflect upon the impact that a loved one has had on our lives.
10 November 2016
Chaplain’s Corner
Last Saturday morning I heard an interview with a Western Bulldogs supporter, he had never seen them play in a Grand Final. He was 101. He was also a minister. In 1954 when the Bulldogs won their first Grand Final he was conducting a wedding.
06 October 2016
Chaplain’s Corner
There is a prayer which goes like this… ‘Lord please grant me patience, and I want it now!’ It is always a challenge to remain patient when time is slipping away. Getting stuck in traffic can really test our patience, even though there is nothing much we can do about it.
01 September 2016