CEIST is the new trustee body for the voluntary secondary schools of the Daughters of Charity, the Presentation Sisters, the Sisters of the Christian Retreat, the Sisters of Mercy and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
Challenge to ChangeOn May 14th the annual meeting of the Presentation Schools involved in the Challenge to Change Project was held in the Springhill Court Hotel, in Kilkenny. Five of our CEIST schools participated this year; Presentation Secondary, Thurles (Discrimination against the Girl Child), Rockford Manor, Blackrock (All Different - All Equal), Scoil Chríost Rí, Portlaoise (Cluster Munitions), Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown (Developing the Millennium Development Goals) and St. Joseph's College, Lucan (Change the Lights from Green to Red). In this year marking the 225th anniversary of the death of Nano Nagle, these projects made it clear that many of the challenges that she encountered are still with us. It is a tribute to her work, and to the work of the many Presentation Sisters throughout the world, that Irish students in Presentation Schools are continuing to learn about and engage in a proactive way with issues of justice, human rights and sustainability. Congratulations to all students who took part in this year's project, and sincere thanks to Sr. Margaret Mary Healy and Liam Kilbride who facilitate the project, to the Presentation Sisters and to Irish Aid who fund it and to all the teachers without whose enthusiasm and commitment such projects could not be undertaken by students in our schools.
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Post-Graduate Diplomas There are two Post-Graduate Diplomas being run for teachers in Marino Institute of Education in the next academic year. Post Graduate Diploma in Spirituality and Post Graduate Diploma in Intercultural Education. Chaplaincy Studies Mater Dei Institute of Education are offering a flexible Master of Arts in Chaplaincy Studies and Pastoral Work. Click here to download full programme details. CEIST Newsletter We have completed our 2nd newsletter edition and hard copies have been distributed to our Schools and other members of CEIST community. We will be publishing our next edition in October. Please click here to download soft copy. Centenary of First Foundation The missionaries of the Sacred Heart are celebrating the centenary of their first foundation here in Ireland in the Western Road, Cork in 1909. Special events include; Mass of Thanksgiving at the Cathedral in Cork on May 16th 2009. Pilgramage to Knock on Sat 25th July. Famine Walk 2009 From Doolough to Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, Saturday 30th May 2009, beginning at 2pm. "Power concedes nothing without demand" Walk Leaders: Willie and Mary Corduff (Erris), Philip Ikurusi (Niger Delta), Gary Whitedeer (Choctaw), with Donal O'Kelly and Sorcha Fox performing a short extract from the writings of Frederick Douglass. Organised by Afri, with Louisburgh Community Project. Read more about the annual Famine Walk on the Afri website.
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