![]() ![]() As you pursue your professional and spiritual goals as teachers, or as educational administrators, you experience the ambiguities and conflicts which characterize our contemporary society. You are preparing for adulthood and Christian maturity a generation of Newfoundlanders, of Canadians, who will build the Church and the society of tomorrow.Ģ. Few challenges are more exalting and rewarding than the instruction and guidance of young people, and few more difficult. To you it is given to create the future and give it direction by offering to your students a set of values with which to assess their newly discovered knowledge. teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you" ( Matth. On her part the Church looks upon you as co-workers, with an important measure of shared responsibility, in helping to fulfill Christ’s mandate transmitted through the Apostles: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations. ![]() These parents and families have invested in you their precious confidence. As Catholic educators you have accepted a special responsibility given by parents. The task of the teacher and the school is indeed a sacred trust conveyed to them by parents and families. It is indeed a joy privilege to join this gathering of educators to speak to those who carry out one of the most important tasks of the Church and of society. I feel that I belong very much to Newfoundland. This evening in this Basilica dedicated to Saint John the Baptist I feel very close to all of you. ![]()
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