Dear Friends and Benefactors, Another term has flown by. We are happy to share with you, our friends and benefactors, news and pictures of the year so far. We wish, also, to express our deepest gratitude for the generous and faithful support that makes St Michael’s possible. Fr Bernard Bevan joins us this year. He replaces Fr Thomas O’Hart as the Boarding Housemaster. Fr Thomas is now prior in Dublin. Fr Bevan has lost no time in taking the reins. You can read snippets of the delightful letters he sends home with the boys several times a term. Fr Bevan attended boarding school in France from a very young age, so he is familiar with the challenges young boys face away from home. He also knows how to keep the boys busy and chipper. It is always a pleasure to be greeted with laughing eyes and wide grins, as the boys hurry to breakfast after morning mass.
I recently discovered that one of our alumni has become the youngest chartered tax advisor in the UK. He now works as a senior consultant at Deloitte. Two others lately secured MScs in Engineering, with Distinction. These are just a few of the many former pupils who have built on what they received at St Michael’s. Most importantly, they have remained faithful to their baptismal vows and practice their faith with conviction and love. The generosity and the loving labour of staff, helpers and benefactors have not been in vain. St Michael’s continues to form men and women who will carry our Lord’s banner when we are old. The Church has always favoured the formation of future generations. We labour, but God blesses the work. He is ever grateful to those who grant Him privileged access to the souls He favours. We pray for you all before the crib.
Fr John Brucciani, Headmaster
