Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth has said that schools should have regular periods of Eucharistic Adoration, contemplative prayer and lectio divina in order to help pupils from Year 5 upwards to “build up a personal relationship with Jesus.”
In a pastoral letter read out in churches last weekend, Bishop Egan said every Catholic school should be “a centre of prayer, ideally with a chapel and a chaplain”. It comes after the bishop visited all 76 Catholic schools in his diocese.
The bishop said that whether the school was “independent, voluntary aided, free or academy”, the “entire curriculum should be so centred on Christ that all teaching and learning and all subject areas, especially the sciences and humanities, become interrelated and unified in him.”
