God wants us to help people who are poor, who don’t have enough food, a safe place to live, or a community.

"Poverty is defined by Catholic Social Teaching as being prevented from living a life worthy of the dignity of a human being due to the lack of being able to provide for one's basic needs. Poverty denies people their most basic human rights. This does not mean that everyone is going to have the same, but when extreme inequality causes people to suffer then they are reduced to a state of poverty.  Poverty has many expressions and differs in the ways in which it causes people to suffer.

It is because poverty cripples so many people that the Social Teaching of the Church puts the poor and vulnerable in society as a top priority." Caritas in Action

Some members of the Chaplaincy Team introduced our new focus of Catholic Social Teaching for this term through an assembly to the whole school. The children involved planned, resourced and delivered this assembly independently! We are very proud of them.

Each year group looked at the theme of 'Option for the Poor and Vulnerable' in term 5. See examples of the work produced in the photographs below.

Loving God,

May we always remember that by serving people living in poverty, we are loving and serving you.

Give us the wisdom to see the structures which create poverty and the passion to make a change.

Amen.