Dear Family and Friends of OLSH College,

In this holy week as we move to our Easter break we remember and enter into our Christian story. These words of Fr John Lynch SJ, in his book The Woman Wrapped in Silence recalling, the journey of Mary, the mother of Jesus on that first holy week are worth pondering…

'She did not turn away. The one thing that we know of her is this: she did not turn away, not fail before Him for an instant. It is not recorded that she wept or asked a pity. It has not been writ of her she languished, crushed and broken, on a drawing length of hours when He stared above their heads, and felt His warm blood spurting at the nails.

She stood beside His cross. John tells us that. She stood and spoke no word. And He could find her there, unflinching, statured by the long preparing – grown to this – and strong enough to meet his last need and to wear her last tremendous majesty. She was his mother.'
(John W. Lynch, A Woman Wrapped in Silence p.225)

The journey of Jesus...suffering...death...resurrection... his story is our story.
Yes, Jesus is at the Heart of our journey.

Were not our hearts burning within us while
Jesus was talking to us on the road?
Luke 24:32

Always united in our shared OLSH Spirit.

Anne O'Loughlin
Principal