Aloysiad 15-12 2006.indd - St Aloysius
Aloysiad 15-12 2006.indd - St Aloysius
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from the senior school<br />
Ms Amasi winning French class<br />
And finally to keep up the tradition that our Year 8 boys<br />
have started, Ms Amasi’s class of Year 8 boys came equal<br />
first in the Alliance Française Song Competition where<br />
they sang and danced to a French song called Ensemble.<br />
This is the third year in a row that our boys have topped<br />
this Competition. The boys involved were; Samuel Burrett,<br />
Kieran Chowdry, Michael de Gail, James De Lucia, Andrew<br />
Devaraj, Logan Grisaffe, Mitchell Hockey, Mitchell Hodson-<br />
Tooth, Dominic Malouf, James May, William Nelson,<br />
Benjamin Patterson, Samuel Payne, Dominic Quattroville,<br />
Joseph Riordan, Thomas Ruehl, Jeremy Sweeney, William<br />
Thompson, Matthew Ticehurst, Benjamin Tully and Samuel<br />
Wood.<br />
Having been so successful at the Alliance Française<br />
Competitions, we are still waiting to hear the results of the<br />
Lire en Fête Competition for Years 9 and 10 in which our<br />
boys had to write the opening chapter of a science fiction<br />
novel in French.<br />
And to cap off the year, our Year 9 – 11 boys who sat<br />
the National ACER Examinations in French did the College<br />
proud, with ninety three percent of Year 11 achieving at<br />
least one Distinction, many achieving two distinctions, and<br />
sixty seven percent of Years 9 and 10 boys achieving at<br />
Simon Danieletto and Jacques McElhone - French drama<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Aloysius</strong>’ College<br />
A Jesuit School for Boys _ Founded 1879<br />
least one distinction, many achieving two distinctions and<br />
others being placed in the top ten percent of candidates in<br />
Australia and New Zealand.<br />
Our congratulations to all of our students for their<br />
efforts and valuable contributions to the French speaking<br />
community of NSW.<br />
Mrs Karen Downes<br />
Head of Languages<br />
All Saints and All Souls Day<br />
The All Saints Day and All Souls Day student Mass<br />
was a very memorable experience for a number<br />
of reasons. Firstly sixteen Eucharistic Ministers were<br />
installed during the Mass. Fr Ross Jones SJ blessed them in<br />
an appropriate ceremony that saw the students pledge to<br />
be a Eucharistic Minister. These students all from Year 11,<br />
were Jacques McElhone, Alex Duncan, Chris Almeida,<br />
Thomas Hogan, Mark Slaven, Sidney Hioe, Daniel Yee,<br />
Declan Byrne, Troy Abolakian, Christian McMahon, Tim<br />
Telan, Alex Koumarelas, Tom Kelly, Richard Alessi, Thomas<br />
Chan, Mark McKibbin. It is wonderful to see that we have<br />
so many of our students willing to display their faith and be<br />
willing to share the body of Christ with their fellow students<br />
and <strong>St</strong>aff.<br />
The second inspirational part of the Mass that was<br />
so inspiring was the creative music. A group of Year 10<br />
musicians and choristers performed You Raise Me Up and<br />
The Power of Your Love. This complimented the other songs<br />
played and there is always a smile from the congregation<br />
with the playing of one of Fr Middleton’s SJ favourite<br />
songs, When the Saints Go Marching In as the recessional<br />
music.<br />
Perhaps though, the most moving experience was the<br />
reflection by Declan Byrne, who is the Prefect for Pastoral<br />
Care. His insights show maturity beyond his years, and<br />
gives us much hope for the future where we know we have<br />
such outstanding faith filled students in our presence.<br />
His reflection follows:<br />
“The Beatitudes essentially are a list of characteristics<br />
exhibited by a person who is deemed blessed by God.<br />
Pure of heart, peacemaker, gentle and poor in spirit are<br />
a few of the traits mentioned that are central to living out<br />
our faith. Possibly the most important line in this passage<br />
is “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in<br />
heaven.” Basically, be happy and grateful and you shall go<br />
to heaven; so simple in words, yet so difficult in action.<br />
As today we celebrate All Saints Day it is evident that<br />
these saints are the most obvious examples of people in<br />
our world who have lived out the above qualities. Saint<br />
is such a broad term. Our stained glass window to the<br />
left conveys some of the canonised saints our school feels<br />
epitomise what we hope and strive to be like. Yet these<br />
saints represent in fact only a small amount of all the saints.<br />
Not only is everyone in heaven a saint, but all Christians<br />
form “the communion of Saints”. It’s a term thrown around<br />
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