Catholic Schools Week 2025 – Alive in Christ!

 “Christ is alive! He is our hope, and in a wonderful way he brings youth to our world, and everything he touches becomes young, new, full of life. 

Jesus is always there, with an open heart; he throws open that mercy that he has in his heart; he forgives, embraces, understands and draws near: that is how Jesus is!

May the waters of baptism, O Lord,
bring us the new life of your love.

Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.” The Lord God is the source and summit of our faith, the highlight of our day, the way to everlasting salvation. He is God, Creator of Heaven and Earth and all they contain.

Today, maybe John the Baptist calls us to do the same as he did; to let go of our own false Gods and say that the one born in that stable is “more powerful than I am, the straps of his sandals I am not worthy to untie.”  When we do this, we can look at this child in a new way and we can, through him rather than through ourselves, see the true face of God.

How wonderful it would be to do this.