Today we celebrate World Teachers’ Day. This year the theme is “Empowering Educators: Strengthening Resilience, Building Sustainability.” In these recent years, teachers have emerged as beacons of resilience, adapting and innovating for their students. We are grateful for the valuable contributions our teachers have made. We thank them for engaging in online learning, in supporting vulnerable students, for working tirelessly to reinvent education and for showing ongoing resilience and creativity in their approach to learning and teaching. We pray for all our teachers who help us to learn and grow in mind, body and spirit, and we ask God to specially bless them.

We all have special gifts which help us to be unique and wonderful. Teachers help us to discover our gifts and encourage us to develop them and make them grow. Even though our teachers may be teaching us online, they can still teach us to be responsible for our own work, to try hard to focus on our work, and help us to learn new skills. Teachers help us to understand and accept our differences, and to appreciate and encourage our own and others’ gifts. Teachers make a difference in our lives by helping us see how we can make a difference in others’ lives. Teachers try to put into action the words of St. Paul. They help us understand that we don’t have to be good at everything, but we all have gifts and talents that are unique to each one of us.

Carey Twidale

Middle Leader Living Your Faith