Holy Trinity Catholic School
Takanini
Holy Trinity recently gathered as a school whānau to witness the unveiling of their commissioned Mother Mary sculpture.
The 2025 curriculum overarching learning is about “Our Common Home” with students independently using their learning to encounter Christ by actively seeking ways to serve, to nurture, and to sustain “our common home far and wide”. How precious it was then, to be gathered in the school's sacred space/prayer garden with the sculpture of Mary, our Mother – because as Mary’s home, it is a place where we can come home to be with Mary, to pray with Mary – to express our faith and to be home in creation!
The prayer garden has become a ‘Holy place’ – a visual symbol of our faith, a place of prayer, a place to meditate, a place to spend time with God, a place to sit peacefully and enjoy God’s creation flourishing, a place to sit in silence, a place to speak from our hearts and to listen to what God is saying and a place to foster our relationship with God through prayer and reflection.
We have been waiting a long time for a sculpture of Mother Mary for our Grotto and then … finally two very special people, with very special gifts said “YES Holy Trinity whānau, we can design and create your Mary sculpture for your prayer garden!” They knew that Mary needed to be very special and unique to Holy Trinity School. Ngā mihi nui – THANK YOU to artists Marc Lenton and Henriata Nicholas for their wonderful work – for their inspiration and artistic skills to create our Mary – THANK YOU for making our prayer garden our “common home.”
From Peta and her team
