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Catholics around the world have a long-standing tradition of honouring the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, during the month of May. As members of the Body of Christ, we also receive Mary as our mother. She is our advocate, our helper, our mediator and our intercessor. Let’s honour and look to Mary, the first and most perfect disciple, through this month and always.
International author, Chris Lowney, has been one of the most inspiring presenters to visit the Lismore Diocese in recent years. Chris strongly believes that we are all serving as leaders, in some capacity, all the time. He also strongly believes good leadership is adaptive leadership.
The adaptive leadership displayed by you in the COVID-19 blended learning delivery has been remarkable. Teacher innovation, agility in planning, adaptability to change, and dedication to students has been acknowledged around the world. This is because, like all essential workers, teachers are engaged in a vocation of service. Serving others is how they lead.
Leaders are not born, they are formed. This formation happens through the spiritual and professional development of our skills, values and desire to carry forward our educational ministry. Inspired by the Gospel, Catholic school teachers have an innate realisation of the sacredness of each student. And that’s leading. Bravo to every one of you!
- Pentatonix is an American acapella group that uses vocal harmonies, basslines, percussion, and beatboxing to create their pop-style arrangements. They produce versions of modern works or Christmas songs. Here is their modern rendition of Mary Did You Know.
- The Tyrolean National Youth Choir from Austria have produced this stunning quarantine classical version of Bruckner’s ‘Ave Maria. ‘Ave Maria’ (latin for Hail Mary) is a sacred motet composed by Austrian Romantic Composer, Anton Bruckner Linz in 1861.
- Pope Francis is urging everyone to pray the Rosary every day during the month of May for an end to the Covid-19 pandemic. He has offered several prayers to help us:
- Journey Catholic Radio is a weekly radio program and podcast about faith, hope, love and life developed by the Catholic Diocese of Wollongong. It includes awesome music, a weekly Gospel reflection, interviews and input from some of the best Catholic presenters in Australia.
Here you will find a selection of featured resources that may be useful in the delivery of blended learning. These resources will also be stored on the Home Learning Site under the Learning Tab.
General
30 Ways to Celebrate Mary During May (Shareable Resource) - These resources are intended to reach a wide variety of ages with different ideas for art, colouring pages, prayer, food, videos, music, and more.
Primary
The prayers for this week are focussed on the Sixth Week of Easter. In the Gospel, Jesus tells the Disciples that to know Him is to know the Father and that to get to heaven, we need to follow Him.
ES1/St 1
- The Hail Mary - What are we saying when we pray the Hail Mary?
Stage 2
- Lessons to Learn from Mary's life - What lessons can we learn from Mary? Reflect on moments in Mary's life and think of something we can learn from them.
Stage 3
- Some of the oldest images of Mary - Take a look and see what strikes you the most about what you see.
Secondary
Look to Him and Be Radiant - These editable resources are particularly suitable for Stage 4. Each resource is linked to web resources and easy to follow.
Examples include:
- Mary and the Saints.
- A Would you Rather?
- A Saint Scavenger Hunt
- Summer goals - need to be adapted for our location
- The Mass and the Priesthood
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