Key Stage 4 Bands T Band (Mother Teresa) “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” An inspirational figure who led an extraordinary Christian life and is truly a witness to the light of the Gospel. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Macedonia in 1910, of Albanian descent. At the age of 12, she felt strongly the call of God and knew she had to be a missionary. At 18 she joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. She taught in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she saw moved her to devote her life to working amongst the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. She started her own order of nuns, 'The Missionaries of Charity', whose task was to love and care for those people nobody was prepared to look after. The order has spread around the world. They provide effective help to the poor in a number of countries across the world, as well as take care of alcoholics, homeless and AIDS sufferers. Mother Teresa died on 5th September 1997. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was recognised by the church as a saint in 2016. In Key Stage 4 (Year 10 & Year 11) students will no longer be in S (Sienna) band or A (Assisi) band. At Our Lady's Catholic College we want our pupils to "become fully alive human beings who help create a society that serves the common good." To try and inspire our young people to do this, we have named our Year 10 Learning Pathways Teresa and Romero, named after our heroes of faith. R Band (Oscar Romero) "Aspire not to have more but to be more” Oscar Romero was born in a mountain town in El Salvador in 1917. He was the second of 7 children. When he was 13 he declared a vocation to the priesthood. In February 1977 he became archbishop of San Salvador - as Archbishop, he was a source of strength and hope for the poor and for the oppressed of his country, working with them and for them, taking their struggles as his own. Romero wrote and spoke passionately and publicly of the need for Christians to work for justice and the oppressed. As a result, he was frequently met with threats and danger from those who opposed his ideas. On March 24th 1980, while celebrating the Eucharist, Archbishop Romero was shot and killed at the altar by an assassin. Because of his courageous stand for justice, he became a martyr not only for poor Salvadorians but for all struggling to overcome oppression and poverty.
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