Youth Mass Preparation - The Reason Why?

Post date: Aug 21, 2015 8:5:42 AM

Youth Mass Preparation - The Reason Why? Please Support ... Hello – to drive home (unashamedly) why we think the youth are that important and to “pull your heart strings” on attending the Youth Mass Preparation meeting on Wednesday 26 August @ 17:30 @ StJohns, here’s a letter, written by a 12 year old pupil of St. Benedict's Middle School, to the people of Charleston where members of the black community were shot in their church. It is a breath-taking in its maturity, compassion and love – that’s why it is so important for all of us to support or youth – but you knew that already, right :) LETTER OF FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE Dear people of Charleston, How much has it changed? The world, I mean. The world our feet explore with every leap, the world our minds have conjured in the hopes of a utopia. The world that intoxicates our senses with each breath. A book I am reading now, called Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry is set in 1930s America, through its careful words I was taught of a dark time when white supremacy was the only idea in the minds of the US citizens, when the apartheid and the KKK rose to an all-time high, a time where hope for the black man was but a glimmer on the horizon, with oceans to swim still.

A time where black children were trapped in the colour of their skin like caged birds, their wings clipped and feet tied by the hands of a white skinned society, so they could not fly too high, and could always be shot down.

It has been 85 years since then, and 9 black lives are taken in a place of peaceful worship, many of us lose hope in this world our hands helped to form, and who could blame us?

However, I am here to tell you that something has changed, in 85 years we have learnt and listened and we have learned something vital - we have learned to love and to mourn.

Millions if not billions of us have joined hands with every creed and race to grieve the loss of these lives, and I think that is truly beautiful.

Our school send our full support and prayers to you in the hope that, hand in hand, the world can rise above this and become one loving race- the human race.

Yours faithfully,

a pupil from St.Benedict's.