Spiritual living

Lutheran Christians value the world as it is, both the visible and the invisible.

This means that we believe the world we can’t see – the spiritual world – coexists with the world we can see. 

This approach to living and learning broadens our students’ worldview and builds their capacity – spiritually and practically – to navigate life’s inevitable challenges, contradictions and complexities.
 

Rituals and traditions

Our college expresses its faith life through rituals and rites of passage. We believe these customs, rooted in sacred Scripture, give shape and voice to our core beliefs. 

These rituals include weekly chapel services where all students from Reception to Year 12 hear stories and messages that pose key questions about life. They are invited to reflect on how these questions might be navigated in light of God’s teachings.

Chapel services also give our students the opportunity to connect with their spiritual selves and to learn to hold themselves in a sacred space. 

Other rituals include the annual Blessing of the Animals ceremony, in which college families are invited to bring their beloved pets to school for a blessing from the college pastor. This ritual is undertaken in remembrance of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of all creatures great and small.

In the junior years, students explore values through the lens of Biblical stories and spiritual thinking. They are shown how to listen with their hearts and engage in prayer as a means of connecting with God, themselves and each other.

In the middle and senior years, students engage in Christian faith at a deeper, more exploratory level. In addition to chapel services, they participate in spiritual retreats; spend time serving communities within and beyond their immediate world; and visit sites of ecological and cultural significance to better understand the spiritual importance of place.

The college upholds a culture of reverence and celebration that enables our students to know themselves and find completeness and purpose. We believe that positive change in the world can and does occur when it first begins with the heart.