This week in our school community: 7 November 2025

Let us pray for all those who have gone to their final resting place 

 

Culture and Diversity Cookbook Submissions 

There is still time to submit your recipe and photos for the St Gregory’s e-cookbook which we are producing as a culmination of the Culture & Diversity celebrations.  Please send your recipe to robinsonm@st-gregorys.org.uk. 

Remembrance Commemorations 

Next week we will commemorate Remembrance Day, both in school and in the local community.  There will be Mass for the whole school on either Monday 10 or Tuesday 11 November, as well as St Gregory’s participating in the memorial service at Firs Field, Combe Down on Remembrance Day.

As is customary, we invite students to attend school in their cadet or services uniforms on Tuesday 11 November if they wish.  This includes any of the armed forces cadets, fire, police or St John Ambulance cadets, as well as students who are in scouts, guides or similar organisations. 

In this month of November, when we begin with All Souls Day and move into our national remembrance commemorations, we recall that this time can be symbolised in the cross and repeated in one word that is at the centre of our faith—resurrection. Just as Jesus was resurrected after dying, so too is the promise of God that all who have died fall asleep in the sure knowledge that their body and soul will rise again, be resurrected.  All Saints Day reminded us that authentic holiness must be lived out in ways that touch the very core of who we are. This is how the saints changed the world in ways from which we still benefit today and invite us into the discipleship which leads us to the cross and eternal life.  Let us pray for all those who have gone to their final resting place, who live on in the hearts of their relatives and friends, those who live on in the witness and example carried forth in others today.

God we remember and we grieve,

For those who have died fighting in wars

in all places and all times.

For young lives cut short before their time.

For the atrocities they experienced and perpetrated.

God we remember and we grieve,

For those who were injured.

For veterans maimed, disfigured and homeless.

For sufferers of post traumatic stress syndrome.

God we remember and we grieve,

For civilian victims of war.

For refugees who have lost families and homes

For those who were raped and tortured.

God we remember and we grieve,

May they turn our thoughts to peace and not to war.

May they turn our actions to reconciliation

and not to violence.

May they encourage us to restore not to destroy.

God we remember and we grieve,

May your peaceable kingdom come,

And your will for good be done,

On earth as it is in heaven.

Amen

Mr Robinson

Lay Chaplain