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LOVE IGNITES HOPE
Welcome back everyone. I hope all of you enjoyed the summer and created some wonderful memories with loved ones. This week our entire staff gathered together for our annual back-to-school festivities beginning with our day-long retreat on Tuesday at Our Lady of Loreto Parish. We spent that day and the rest of this week praying, reflecting and dialoguing with one another on our theme for this school year: Igniting Hope.
Welcome back everyone. I hope all of you enjoyed the summer and created some wonderful memories with loved ones. This week our entire staff gathered together for our annual back-to-school festivities beginning with our day-long retreat on Tuesday at Our Lady of Loreto Parish. We spent that day and the rest of this week praying, reflecting and dialoguing with one another on our theme for this school year: Igniting Hope.
Hope is the life source, the “satyagraha” of our lives. Hope springs from a desire to better engage, contribute and to grow. Hope encapsulates the paradoxes of our life as it arises from the challenges and struggles we face. This week, the faculty and staff have been reflecting on how to ignite hope in our community and engage some of the challenges we face during these current tumultuous times. We considered how we can become agents in igniting hope to heal some of our cultural, social and political divisions through dialogue, civil discourse and finding ecumenical unity within our diversity of background, experience and thought.
We also engaged in learning more about supporting the mental health and well-being of our young women and men. We explored how we can serve them more intentionally and faithfully in a world cacophonous with judgmental noise that creates pressures, anxiety and fear. And we spent time discussing how we can serve and assist our parents in this process through spiritual formation and resources.
Ultimately, we recognized that we ignite hope through the strength of the Regis Jesuit community:
Hope is the life source, the “satyagraha” of our lives. Hope springs from a desire to better engage, contribute and to grow. Hope encapsulates the paradoxes of our life as it arises from the challenges and struggles we face. This week, the faculty and staff have been reflecting on how to ignite hope in our community and engage some of the challenges we face during these current tumultuous times. We considered how we can become agents in igniting hope to heal some of our cultural, social and political divisions through dialogue, civil discourse and finding ecumenical unity within our diversity of background, experience and thought.
We also engaged in learning more about supporting the mental health and well-being of our young women and men. We explored how we can serve them more intentionally and faithfully in a world cacophonous with judgmental noise that creates pressures, anxiety and fear. And we spent time discussing how we can serve and assist our parents in this process through spiritual formation and resources.
Ultimately, we recognized that we ignite hope through the strength of the Regis Jesuit community:
- In taking pride in our Cornerstone servant-leader students who will welcome our incoming girls and boys to the RJ community next week with through faith-sharing and team-building.
- As we welcome back our student-athletes and coaches to our beautiful campus fields for sports practices and activities.
- Through our retreats that have already begun with the Hut Retreat that left this morning and will continue next week with the Hiking Retreats where God’s wonderful creation is gratefully embraced and gazed upon in communion with one another.
- As our Parent Diversity Committee hosts the annual Diversity BBQ, welcoming new families from culturally-diverse backgrounds into our community—a tradition that dates back more than two decades and has grown exponentially over the years.
- In looking to improve the mental health and well-being of our students by exploring more deeply the issues of safety, anxiety, technology and the teenage brain, but most importantly, in creating a greater awareness of the loving community that is Regis Jesuit—a community of God.
- At the start of another school year with the arrival of your sons and daughters who bring with them beginnings filled with the promise of new hope.
Igniting hope comes from a faith in something larger than ourselves. Hope comes from a God who is incarnate with us and our human experience. We ignite hope with God working through all of us. Regis Jesuit ignites hope together as one Body of Christ possessing the many diverse gifts of the Holy Spirit. We will celebrate these gifts more formally in a few weeks with our traditional Mass of the Holy Spirit. The building of our community is the key to igniting hope; this comes from God’s love and our ability to love our neighbor.
So, as we begin this school year looking to ignite hope, may we ask ourselves, who is my neighbor and how can I love my neighbor more deeply? Our neighbors include not only our families and friends, but the poor, marginalized, misunderstood and the rejected—anyone in need of redemptive love. Everything that we do at Regis Jesuit—our classes, service work, retreats, liturgies, athletics, clubs, etc.—is a call to love all our neighbors more deeply. For love is the ultimate act of hope. Prayers for a hope-filled year for you and your family.
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Dr, Sajit Kabadi is the Assistant Principal for Mission, Ministry and Diversity. He has worked at Regis Jesuit since 2000.
So, as we begin this school year looking to ignite hope, may we ask ourselves, who is my neighbor and how can I love my neighbor more deeply? Our neighbors include not only our families and friends, but the poor, marginalized, misunderstood and the rejected—anyone in need of redemptive love. Everything that we do at Regis Jesuit—our classes, service work, retreats, liturgies, athletics, clubs, etc.—is a call to love all our neighbors more deeply. For love is the ultimate act of hope. Prayers for a hope-filled year for you and your family.
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Dr, Sajit Kabadi is the Assistant Principal for Mission, Ministry and Diversity. He has worked at Regis Jesuit since 2000.
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