Assistant Principal - Mission
Welcome back to the College for 2025. It has been a wonderful start seeing both excited staff and students looking forward to a productive and fantastic year ahead.
I’m the new Assistant Principal for Mission and Wellbeing and I'm really looking forward to the role and all that it brings. I have taught at St Paul’s for a number of years and held various roles in this time. Also, during this time, I have had short breaks and taught at Mackillop College (was St Paul’s then) in Port Macquarie, Oakhill College at Castle Hill and Trinity Grammar at Summer Hill.
This year in the Church we are celebrating the Jubilee - Year of Hope. Over the next few months, I will provide more information about what this is and what is involved for both the Catholic Church and our College.
Jubilee Year of Hope
A Jubilee is a special year of grace and conversion, involving prayer, pilgrimage and sacramental repentance, held every 25 years, or during other years as called for by the Pope. Through a series of concrete rituals, acts and commitments, the goal of a Jubilee year is to inspire and encourage holiness of life among the faithful and therefore to strengthen the Church’s witness to God’s loving mercy in and for the world.
The word “jubilee” is derived from the Hebrew word jobel, which means “ram’s horn”, since it was precisely that horn which was used as a trumpet, whose sound indicated to everybody the beginning of the jubilee year. The book of Leviticus, in the code of holiness, is the source which tells us of the significance of the jubilee year, a year of liberation “par excellence,” which is at the end of seven weeks of years, the fiftieth year.
Mrs Lesa Morrison - Assistant Principal - Mission
lesa.morrison@lism.catholic.edu.au