From the Chaplain

During their Student Wellbeing Period on Wednesday morning, Year 12 gathered together for their final Chapel service as students. Wearing their 2023 Year 12 jersey, Rev Farraway decided to join in by wearing his own 1993 Year 12 jersey. He acknowledged that it still doesn’t fit him very well. It was one-size-fits-all 30 years ago.

The Chaplain reflected on his shared experience with the boys over their time at the School, having even baptised one of them as a baby in the original Chapel. The privilege of seeing these sorts of journeys is one of the delights of a community such as Cranbrook. But today’s message wasn’t about nostalgia, it was about the peaks ahead. School provides a great harbour to be built in, but ships aren’t built for harbours. They are made to explore outside the heads and beyond the horizon. Nevertheless, the Chaplain’s prayer is that the words they have heard in Chapel will be a light to guide their path, wherever it may lead. 

Favourite hymns were sung with gusto, including a Christmas carol, and the Old Cranbrookians’ Association, represented by Joe Karsay, welcomed the boys to the next stage of the Cranbrook lifecycle. The service was an expression and celebration of the connection that the spiritual life of the School provides, and which the Memorial Chapel has come to encapsulate and encourage.

Regards,

Rev. Rod Farraway