On Monday staff participated in Professional Development. We started the morning with a special liturgy in the Church where we reflected on the year's theme ‘gratitude’. We then looked at ways of implementing Christian Meditation into our everyday practice. Staff also looked at the Gospel of Luke and then explored the scripture of the woman who bathes Jesus’ feet with her tears.

The Gospel of Luke offers a model and guide for spiritual development. Some of the key points about Luke:

• Luke’s symbol is an ox (calf) - which represents the sacrifices offered in the temple as Luke’s Gospel starts and ends in the temple.
• Luke was believed to be a physician.
• Luke was born in Antioch in Syria in the first century c 65 and died in Thebes in Greece
• Possibly an Hellenic Jew but there is an argument that he may have been a gentile​
• Wrote 27.5% of the New Testament

Stacey Braun

Religious Education Coordinator