A Reflection through Images

1. Vocation and The Work of Our Hands A Reflection through Images

2. A TIME TO REFLECT ON THE WORK OF OUR HANDS… Bless our hands...Often just appendages at the end of our arms...workers doing their job without appreciation...looked at, yet not really seen.These instruments of love have done mundane tasks, yet also create beauty.They reach out, touch, stroke, scrub, lift, grasp, gesture and guide.These hands, our hands, gifts of great importance,Blessing be on them and in them as we continue to work with them.May the fruits of their labour be good.

3. Contemplate the work of your hands. What is the nature of your personal vocation at ______________School? Reflect on the following images and note which ones say something to you about your vocation.

44. We are God’s Hands…..

45. In pairs share an image which said something to you about your vocation: What does the image say about you and the way God works through you as a person in this school?

46. Name: Christ has no Body now but yoursNo hands, no feet on earth but yoursYours are the eyes through which he looksCompassion on the worldYours are the feet with which he walksTo do goodYours are the hands with which he blessesAll the world.

47. All: Ours are the hands Ours are the feet Ours are the eyes We are his body Planning in the Kingdom

48. Name: It helps, now and then, to step backand take the long view.The kingdom is not only beyond our effortsIt is even beyond our vision.

49. All: Lord, we commit ourselves to the work of our hands.

50. Name: We accomplish in our lifetimeOnly a fraction of the magnificent enterprisethat is God’s workNothing we do is complete,which is another way of saying that theKingdom always lies beyond us.