This week our focus virtue is Justice.  As we watch the news around the world and look to the current #blacklivesmatter campaign we pause to listen to the cries of people for justice throughout the world.  How can we be people of justice in our local community and in our world? 

Teach me to listen, O God, to those nearest to me, 
my family, my friends, my co-workers. 
Help me to be aware that no matter what words I hear, 
the message is "Accept the person I am. Listen to me." 

Teach me to listen, my caring God, to those far from me-- 
the whisper of the hopeless. 
the plea of the forgotten, the cry of the anguished. 

Teach me to listen, O God my Mother, to myself. 
Help me to be less afraid to trust the voice inside-- 
in the deepest part of me 

Teach me to listen, Holy Spirit, for your voice-- 
in busyness and in boredom, in certainty and in doubt, 
in noise and in silence. 

Teach me, Lord, to listen. Amen. 

Cate Brennan

Deputy Principal Religious Education