Year+12+Reflection+Day+Paraliturgy

** St Mary’s Reflection ** Materials Needed Beginning Music || Quiet reflective music Gabriel’s Oboe || Reader 1 : Marnie Kennedy || In February this year the following blessing was prayed over you our Year 12’s || Reader 2: Daniel Cross || May you walk this journey Compassionate of heart, Gentle in word, Strong in commitment. Generous in love. May you be Supportive of others, Forgiving of mistakes, Welcoming of help, Courageous in spirit. || Reader 1 : Marnie Kennedy || As year 12’s you were proclaimed as pilgrims. You have been on journey this year that many others before you have been on. But earlier in your time at MacKillop College you were not just pilgrims you were pioneers who dared to travel a different path. You were our first group to experience St Mary’s and set the path that many others will follow. || Reader 3: Rhianne || At the campus you left your mark in many ways. This is a branch from the bottle brush that you planted in one of your rituals. This plant was a symbol of your journey. Since you have left it has grown, flowered and matured, just like your selves. As we pass it around we ask that you take a leaf and hold it. As you hold it in your hand we ask that you try to recall the important aspect of what occurred for you at St Mary’s…remember the people, remember the learning, and remember the growth… Reader 4: Anthony || Throughout history people have left signs and symbols for others to find as a sign of what they have done and what they stand for. Sometimes these signs and symbols have been complex like Egyptian pyramids and Mayan temples. Other cultures like Australia ’s indigenous people have left behind simpler signs such as rock paintings and rich oral traditions. The ancient Israelites had a different tradition. They left behind a stone as symbol that they had been part of the landscape. In a sense it was a physical legacy of their journey. This is explained in the bible. || Reader 5: Tianna Roylance || ==== A reading from the book of Joshua ==== 1 When the whole nation had finished crossing the river Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua, 2 "Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, 3 and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the river Jordan from right where the priests stood and to carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight." 4 So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, 5 and said to them, "Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan . Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean?' 7 tell them that the flow of the river Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever." This the word of the Lord || All || ==== Thanks be to God ==== || Reader 6: Marnie Kennedy || Today we ask that once again you leave your mark. Just as the ancient Israelites left their mark with a stone we ask that you do the same thing. Each of you will be given a white stone. For the Israelites the white stone has always been the object of special veneration, is the well-known symbol of the Divine Spirit, the nucleolus of the Cell, the Sun of the system, the Head of the Pyramid. It was regarded as sacred. || Reader 7: Daniel Cross || On the stone you will be given we will ask you to write a word or phrase of advice for those pilgrims who follow you to St Mary’s. We ask that your words be a positive affirmation for those that follow. As you write we ask that you think of your bottlebrush tree. In your words try to capture the feelings attached to your leaf. || || (Students move off in to groups with basket of white rocks and texta.   This is lead by Pastoral teacher.   Students write messages on rocks.  Students hold stone. Students return to area with stone in hand.) SMC students place string on floor in spiral formation. || Reader 8: Rhianne || St Mary’s is a place of growth and change. Much of what occurs is about connections... Connection to the earth, connection to others and connection to self. An activity we do at St Mary’s to help us understand this is something called the Comsic Walk. After today we are going to collect your stones and take them back to St Mary’s. Our plan is to lay these stones in a path to create a permanent cosmic walk in the children’s garden that every student who follows you will see. || Reader 1: Anthony || We will now share a Powerpoint based on the Cosmic Walk that happens at St Mary’s. As the music plays we ask that you bring forward your stone and place on the string so that it builds up a spiralling representation of the Cosmic walk. || || Reader 2: Tianna Roylance || Once back at St Mary’s this will become a graphic symbol of our connectedness to the world and one another and will be for always a symbol that you were there. ||
 * Year 12 Reflection Day **
 * A computer
 * Speakers
 * Data projector
 * Screen
 * Baskets of white stones
 * Texas
 * Branch from the Bottle Brush tree
 * (Jessica, Michelle and Ashlea to distribute the leaves.) ** ||
 * Music plays (To the Edge of the Earth), powerpoint with images from Cosmic walk plays. Images from (Born with a Bang). **
 * Students bring forth their stone and place on string outline on floor. ** ||