Supervisor’s message
Dear Teachers, classmates, parents, alumni and friends,
We welcome this special new school year of 2021 with deep gratitude. This year, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels (MNDA), as well as the 95th anniversary of St Clare’s School.
100 years ago, Mother Mary of the Sacred Heart, our wise Mother Foundress, together with Mother Mary Gabriel, the co-foundress of the Congregation, set up the missionary in Canada under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and much prayer. They then came to serve in the faraway Mainland China, bringing the good news of God and his message of love to people living in remote mountain areas. Their footsteps once reached Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong.
In 1926, five sisters came to Hong Kong and in the next year, they opened St Clare’s School with St Clare as the patron saint in view of the social needs at that time. Through spreading Jesus’ word of love, we help students follow the example of our Holy Mary and St Clare, nurturing them to practise the Four Cardinal Virtues- Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance through their words and actions. As our Mother Foundress said, we teach our students to treat everyone with love and respect.
One hundred years have passed in a flash. Generations of sisters and enthusiastic school supervisors and principals led a team of teachers who are passionate about teaching our future leaders. Under the leadership of God, we have continued the development of the school by persisting on our school motto, “Truth conquers”, raising generations of students with the proper knowledge, ability and integrity to serve in different fields of the society. I thank numerous parents who have placed their trust in our school and entrusted the education of their girls to us. Through parents’ support, our school can continue spreading God’s words through our work in education.
I thank God for His call so I became a sister in 1997 and following His will, I became involved in a career of education, serving in Our Lady of Fatima Girl’s School in Macau for six years. I relocated to Hong Kong five years ago, becoming part of the St Clare’s School family and the religious education work in school. Even though it has just been five years’ time, I am always touched by the young, innocent and simple hearts of our primary school girls. When I pray with them, they are always so solemn, so devoted in their prayers for their classmates, teachers and unwell relatives. These pure souls will for sure be blessed by God. They are the group of children that Jesus called to Him. Let us continue to care for them, so that they learn, grow and be protected in St Clare’s School.
As we celebrate the 95th anniversary of the school, let us, with a grateful heart, ask for Jesus’ continued blessing on our school so that we can carry on our work. Under the support and constant love of our Holy Mary and St Clare, we will build a St Clare’s family full of love, peace and happiness!
Sister Rose Huang Mei Lan
校監的話
親愛的老師、同學、家長和校友們：
1922年，明智的會祖母瑪利亞.耶穌聖心修女經過深入的祈禱，在聖神的光照指引下和副會祖母瑪利亞.加俾額爾修女在加拿大成立修會後就迫切遠途來到中國內地服務，並將福音的喜訊帶給邊遠山區的人，她們曾經踏足貴州、廣西以及廣東。
1926年，五位修女來到香港，翌年，她們應當時時代的需要，以聖女嘉勒為主保，創辦了聖嘉勒學校。透過傳播基督愛的福音，幫助學生效法聖母及聖女嘉勒的精神和美德，培育學生藉著言行實踐四樞德-智德、勇德、義德、節德，並仿效基督的大愛精神，平等地愛和尊重一切人。正如會祖母的遺訓：「適度地、平等地用同樣的愛來歡迎貧者和富者…不分膚色地尊重一切人，視他們皆為天主愛的結晶：粗莽的、可憐的或禮貌的、可愛的都該一律受我們的尊重。」
這些年來，在天主的眷顧之下，一代又一代的修女和熱心的校監、校長帶領熱衷於教育事業的老師們堅持不懈地以校訓「真理必勝」的精神，延續學校的發展；培育了一代又一代有知識、有能力、有良好品格的人才在社會不同的領域中服務。感謝無數家長的信任，放心地把其子女交託在聖嘉勒學校的修女們，讓她們透過辦學得以繼續顯揚天主的聖名。
感謝天主在1997年召選我成為修女；按祂的旨意，於2007年投入教育事業，在澳門花地瑪聖母女子學校服務六年。並於五年前被派遣到香港，投入聖嘉勒學校的牧靈服務，成為聖嘉勒家庭的一份子。屈指一算，雖然只是五年的時間，但我常常為小學生那幼小天真純樸的心靈感動著。每當我和她們一起祈禱時，她們總是那麼認真、那麼虔誠，她們為同學祈禱、為老師祈禱、為生病的親人祈禱……這樣純潔的心一定會蒙主祝福的。她們就是那獲耶穌邀請到跟前的小孩子。讓我們繼續呵護她們，讓她們能夠在聖嘉勒學校中得到保護、增長知識以及健康快樂地成長。
2021年我接任為學校的校監，讓我們齊來懷著感恩的心，祈求主耶稣繼續降福聖嘉勒學校，看顧它得以持續發展；帶領我們全體教職員工在聖母瑪利亞和聖女嘉勒的眷顧下，共同建立一個充滿愛、和平和喜樂的聖嘉勒大家庭！
黃玫蘭修女