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About Our School

St. Francis Xavier was established in 1975 to serve the families of the local Catholic Parish of Runaway Bay. The current enrolment is 637 students.

St Francis Xavier supports the mission of the Holy Family Parish by offering quality c0-education within the context of Catholic values and traditions. As such, there are genuine efforts to establish a true community of faith and learning– one which recognises the uniqueness and dignity of the individual and operates on the gospel values of respect and care for one another.

Through its curriculum and courses, its celebration and worship rituals, its cultivation of the aesthetics and its Religious Education Programme, the school attempts to give witness to the essential wholeness of the human experience - social, moral, physical, spiritual and intellectual development.

The world in which we live is everchanging, and our teenagers are going to be exposed to social pressures and choices that did not exist to the same extent at other times. At St Francis Xavier, we aim to provide an eight year programme, from preschool to year 7, that is designed to better equip our young people to confront the issues of their day in the light of the gospel values.

Winston Churchill loved to tell the story of the little boy who fell off the

pier into deep ocean water. An older sailor, heedless of the great

danger to himself, dove into the stormy water, struggled with the boy,

and finally, exhausted, brought him to safety. Two days later the boy’s

mother came with him to the same pier, seeking the sailor who had rescued

her son. Finding him, she asked, “You dove into the ocean to bring my boy out?”

“I did,” he replied. “Then where’s his hat?” demanded the mother. In today’s

gospel Jesus tells the story of nine ungrateful lepers.

And a Joke :

Three men were fishing on a lake one day, when Jesus walked across the water

and joined them in the boat. When the three astonished men had settled down

enough to speak, the first man asked humbly, “Jesus, I’ve suffered from back pain ever since

I lifted a very heavy long range gun in the Vietnam war. Could you help me?” “Of course my

son,” Jesus said. When Jesus touched the man’s back, the man felt relief for the first time in years.

The second man, who wore very thick glasses and had a hard time reading and driving, asked

if Jesus could do anything about his eyesight. Jesus smiled, removed the man’s glasses and

tossed them in the lake. When the glasses hit the water, the man’s eyesight cleared up and he

could see everything distinctly. Then Jesus turned to the third man. “What can I do for you?”

he asked. At this, the man put up his hands defensively and cried : Don’t touch me!

I’m on long-term disability.”

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