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Ty Wikispace The community is blessed to have had Mary MacKillop founder of the Josephite sisters to spread the Gospel of Jesus to the children of the outback. The same spirit brought the first Sisters in 1909, still animates with the administration of the school. Values as a person and sacraments are part of the whole curriculum not just ½ hour session on morality or being a ‘nice and caring’ person. (Putney 08: 4) discusses the argument of congregation, as follows ‘Being part of the church is of its very essence.’ Teaching is the noblest profession of all professions as without them there would be no great doctors, lawyers, politicians or journalists. (Green 7: 2000) states “school principals give priority to nuturing such cultural attributes to have been shown to have the strength of leadership that makes for good schools.” NAIDOC WEEK The principal is a link to school culture through shared stories, language, mission statement and set of beliefs. As quoted from Fr. John Boland ofm ‘it’s always people who count not other things in the paperwork, in the organisation, the meetings, the budget, the funding – it is always about people. Sr Mary McDonald Mary MacKillop – to serve the poor The rule of Benedict – Benedictine spirituality – “minister to the disabled, indigenous, homeless,destitute or rural people and, like the Samaritan traveller, to anyone in need.” St. Josephites pe in the content of your page here.
 * Family breakdown, unemployment, recession and contemporary technology are influencing the way people are jettisoned by formal and traditional religions.
 * Thinking about fresh new ways of expressing charisms in the 21century i.e. spiritual person not necessarily catholic (Catherine Day)
 * Shared Stories told by elders help indigenous and non-indigenous students to pay tribute to the early pioneers who laid the foundation on which the Shire has grown.
 * I AM MAKING MYSELF BLACK 2 – John Bede Polding OSB 3