This year we began an exciting new initiative with Second Years. We invited students to take a more active role in living out our school ethos and traditions. To get started, students from each class were invited to become Mercy Leaders. The new role is about active involvement in organising and helping out with liturgical events and embodying the mercy ideals lived out by Sr. Catherine MCauley. So far, the Mercy Leaders have been involved in the preparations for our Mercy Mass and have also helped organise and promote a weekly prayer meeting in the Prayer Room. In a beautiful initiation ceremony on Thursday 12th October, Fr. Liam commissioned and blessed all of the Mercy Leaders in their role as ambassadors for the ethos of the school. All the best for the year ahead girls and very well done so far. “On Thursday last, October 11th, I was commissioned as a Mercy leader by Fr. Liam Morgan in a blessing ceremony, in the Prayer Room. We prayed together and then Fr. Liam spoke to us about the year ahead. Afterwards, he blessed us individually by marking our heads with the sign of the cross and holy water. Photographs were taken to remember the ceremony. It was a very special event.”
Testimony by Croia Humphries, 2nd Year Student and newly commissioned Mercy Leader.