Service

In a postmodern ‘me’ culture, the parish school challenges all its members to understand that a Catholic education is not an end in and of itself, but rather it enriches us to live lives of loving service to God, the Church and the world. We serve others more fully when each of us recognise the importance of sharing our gifts and have a clear sense of the distinctiveness of our role by embracing our own particular way to serve. Jesus models this type of service by being ‘among you as one who serves’ (Luke 22:27). This is ‘why’ we serve... we imitate Jesus to animate the world with the spirit of Christianity and be witnesses to Christ in all circumstances in serving others in our community. 

Staff who choose to work in a Catholic school serve with a vocational sense. We are locally called to serve students and their families. We support the pastoral care and well-being of each student and the Christian community of the parish. 

We are also intentional in our own outreach to the wider marginalised. Pope Francis asks that ‘the more fortunate renounce some of their rights so as to place their goods more generously at the service of others’ (EG, 190). Regarding the poor and marginalised he urges us ‘to find Christ in them, to lend our voice to their causes, but also to be their friends, to listen to them, to speak for them and to embrace the mysterious wisdom which God wishes to share with us through them’ (EG,198).

For when we serve, we enliven love… the God of love, who is love (1 John 4:8).

Gary Reen

Assistant Director, SEACS