With exams having just been completed for our Middle School students today and having just enjoyed the Academy’s Christmas Band Concert and Christmas parties, we are now preparing for what some consider to be the most beautiful of the Academy’s many traditions—tomorrow’s Christmas Basket Liturgy. Please know that all parents are welcome to attend.
My heart is full and overflowing with gratitude, not only when I see the baskets, but for the many acts of generosity which I have observed in these past weeks. I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all you do for the needy in our world, for this Academy, for our students and for our unique form of education. “Thank you” does not seem to be enough, but it is sincere, earnest and heartfelt.
Most of all, thank you for trusting us to partner with you in educating and inspiring the heart and mind of your child to become a courageous and confident leader who knows and loves God, and who reveals that love by serving others. This truly IS the essence of our education. (Just watch our oldest students carrying those baskets!)
My Christmas prayer is that each of us will experience the depth of the wonder of the mystery of this season: that God is not only ‘out there’ but HERE, among us, between us, within us and part of us, yearning to love us and yearning for our love in return.
All that is required is that we open our hearts, make room for the birth of the Christ within so that we, as the Body of Christ, can continue to be the Face and Arms and Hands and Heart of Christ in our world today.
Merry, Blessed, Holy and Happy Christmas, Everyone!
Maureen Glavin, rscj
