From the Principal’s Desk 2.19

Dear Friends,

The other day I came across a comment about a man who went around the world trying to get pictures of people in their native dress.  He stopped in the 1930’s with 75,000 pictures.  They are amazing in their variety but what was most interesting was the comment that if the same thing were to be done today there would be only one picture; a man or woman wearing blue jeans, sneakers and a t-shirt. 

How could we, in the most consumer driven society the world has ever seen, wear nearly the same thing each day?  With ostensibly every choice in the world, we choose the same thing with astonishing regularity. While I think jeans, sneakers and t-shirts are fine clothing, imagine the reaction if you cleansed your house of these three items…and yet we claim we live in complete freedom.

Christ on the other hand actually does offer us freedom.  St. Paul said he had become all things to all men in order to preach the Gospel.   Christ doesn’t ask us to be just like each other, he asks us to be just like him, in our own unique ways.   We can be free to be who we were made to be. 

Several years ago a friend of mine wrote a song detailing a conversation between a critic and a Christian.  The critic claims the Christian is losing his freedom by practicing his faith. This is the Christians response,

Freedom to you means slavery to me,

You want to bind me with an earthly chord,

but joy  and peace and happiness and life

are the slavery that I’m heading for,

Safe in the hands of the Lord.

God bless,

Timothy Gallic

Principal, Holy Family High School

From the Principal's Desk 2.18

Dear Parents and Friends,

Those of you who read this section may have noticed I left out one of the classic interrogatories; the question of why?  So today, with Christmas season over I would like to tackle it.

Perhaps it is better to state what Christ’s birth didn’t accomplish.  Christ didn’t cure malnutrition, he didn’t bring world peace, and he didn’t cure disease, make computers or travel to the moon.  He did not discover America, (okay he did make it), he did not speak English, he never enjoyed NFL football and he never went to Catholic School.  We, his creations, can do all of that, and we should. 

Christ came to do something none of us could do.  He came to redeem mankind.  In the Passion of the Christ there is a very moving scene, where Mary runs up to Jesus just as he falls.  Jesus says to his mother, “See, I make all things new.”   But what kind of new …?  One in which everyone can be God’s child, one in which all can be loved, one in which we can all be redeemed.  The reason Christ came was to make us His family.  Thus He makes the world new:  I cannot make the world new, you cannot make the world new, we cannot even make our students new, but Jesus can! 

This school exists to spread the Good News of God’s love, to educate and train our students so that they can more easily become the new creation Christ talks about.   You have wonderful and awesome children and I thank God each day for the opportunity to work with them.

Happy New Year

Timothy Gallic