Catholic Education Week<br/><br/>
The theme of this year’s Catholic Education Week is “And God Saw That It Was Good.” Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association decided on this theme to encourage students to appreciate and to treasure all that God created. The association would like to strengthen the students’ awareness of conservation, and eventually guide them in understanding the importance of moral principles.<br/><br/>
The chair of the association, Robert Anderson, remarked, “The mission of Catholic education is to deliver the message of love of God and love of nature. In the past 3 years, we have investigated our relationship with Jesus, we have looked at how to know ourselves better, and we have learned to build healthy social relationships. This year, we focus on our surroundings and on the world.”<br/><br/>
The committee has the following specific guidelines in helping students understand the issues the world is facing: caring for and wisely using the earth’s resources, limiting consumption, understanding the links between poverty and the exploitation of the earth, advocating for equity and justice, opposing the wickedness of war, working for the appropriate development of persons and communities.<br/><br/>
Our parish’s Pro-life committee will be traveling to Ottawa on May 11 as a group, to participate in the “March for Life”. If you are a parent, you are strongly encouraged to go with your children, to remind them that life is to be respected. If you haven’t registered with the parish, you can go on your own – everybody convenes at Parliament Hill. This is alternative pilgrimage, you know?