Ash Wednesday Celebration.

On Wednesday 6 March the Years 6-12 students and teachers gathered in the Keith Lindbeck Centre for the Ash Wednesday Celebration.

Lent is a time to stop and reflect, and to re-evaluate our lives and the people we are becoming.  Reflection of self allows us to see how we are making a difference to the people around us and how we can better ourselves as human beings.

We begin our journey through Lent, Holy Week and Easter and like any organised traveller we want to pack our bags to make sure we have everything to make our six week journey easy.  But Ash Wednesday is about leaving baggage behind and braving the unknown carrying nothing but the mark of God’s love and make an effort to carry more respect, love, generosity, openness, hospitality and hope in our hearts. Ash Wednesday is a Christian holy day of prayer, fasting, and repentance. ... Because it is the first day of Lent, many Christians, on Ash Wednesday, often begin marking a Lenten calendar, praying a Lenten daily devotional, and abstaining from a luxury that they will not partake in until Easter Sunday arrives.  Our Ash Wednesday Service asking each one of us to make an effort to carry more respect, love, generosity, openness, hospitality and hope in our hearts.

Thank you to Ms House, Ms Stringer, Senior School Prefects and fellow students who contributed in making it a very special celebration.