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Six Critical Questions

Humility
Faithfulness
Service
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Key Questions

For any community to be healthy, six critical questions need to live inside the way it works every day. How we recruit and retain people, manage performance, celebrate success and recognise good work in the moment all tie back to these six.
  • To assist in the mission of making Christ known to all people;
  • To assist parents, who are the prime educators of their children, in the education and religious formation of their children;
  • To be of service to the local Church - the Diocese - the Parish and the Christian home;
  • To be of service to society
  • The Church provides Catholic schools to:


… contribute to the creation of a society that is highly educated, skilled and cultured. For this reason, the Church emphasises the contribution that Catholic schools make to the common good of society and its culture”.


The Vision for Emmaus CAT:


To provide great Catholic education across Greater Manchester.

Our habitual virtues (values) are based on Luke 24: 'Stay with us Lord, on our Journey...'

Humility: Demonstrating compassion and understanding.

Faithfulness: Demonstrating our faith in all that we do together, as a community.

Service: Demonstrating our devotion and service to God in helping to fulfil the Diocesan mission.

Enable our schools...To provide great Catholic education across Greater Manchester.

 

The real strength of Emmaus is that every school keeps its own character and its roots in its own parish community. Our job is to protect that distinctiveness while sharing what works across the family of schools, so that what we learn in one place benefits the whole trust, now and for generations to come.

Strategic Focus Area 1: Mission

  1. To promote a distinctive Catholic Mission and culture to ensure Emmaus CAT continues to be strong in faith.

Strategic Focus Area 2: Quality of Education

  1. To ensure Emmaus CAT provides great schools with an ambitious curriculum for all pupils to flourish and serve society.

Strategic Focus Area 3: Academy Improvement

  1. To build a strong and sustainable infrastructure, making effective use of resources, enabling Emmaus CAT schools to serve society.

On the Road to Emmaus

13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

19 “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

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