This week we held our beginning-of-term chapel service in the Junior Primary and Eucharist in the Senior Primary and Bible ring at Little Saints.

In the Senior Primary Eucharist, as is school tradition, the Grade 4s and new girls received their Bibles. When we gather for the Eucharist at the beginning of term and all the new faces appear the following statement comes to mind:

In the Eucharist there is a twofold movement: the call to come, ‘draw near and receive’, the summons to move out into a needy world, ‘go in peace to love and serve the Lord’. These are the hallmarks of the Eucharistic community (An Anglican Prayer book 1989:101-102).

The twofold movement in the Eucharist speaks to the pattern of our days as a school community. We come together, staff and pupils to learn, and to receive encouragement and knowledge. Our community service initiatives send us out into a needy world.

The Eucharist is a space to gather around the Lord’s table and to extend hospitality to each other. It is also where we learn more about the value of community and what it means for our school.

REVD RAKGADI
KHOBO CHAPLAIN