St Gregory the Great Catholic School Newsletter Email: Tel: 01865 749933 Website: @StGregsOxford URGENT PLEASE NOTE: Owing to essential staff INSET, students from KS3-5 will return to school on Monday 8th January. The Primary will open on 4th January. Chaplaincy Reflection In the last newsletter of 2017, we reflect on the past year, what we have achieved, and what there is still to do. This prayer, often attributed to Archbishop Oscar Romero, reminds us that we all play a part in God’s plan. It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the Church's mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything. This is what we are We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. Amen Assembly this week
St Gregory the Great Catholic School Newsletter Email: Tel: 01865 749933 Website: @StGregsOxford URGENT PLEASE NOTE: Owing to essential staff INSET, students from KS3-5 will return to school on Monday 8th January. The Primary will open on 4th January. Chaplaincy Reflection In the last newsletter of 2017, we reflect on the past year, what we have achieved, and what there is still to do. This prayer, often attributed to Archbishop Oscar Romero, reminds us that we all play a part in God’s plan. It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the Church's mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything. This is what we are We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. Amen Assembly this week
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