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On the day of the Marist Mass hosted by Sacred Heart
College on Heritage Day 2014, it is natural that our thoughts
inevitably went back one hundred and twenty five years to
the beginnings of Marist work in Johannesburg. The scene
at the mass - our beautiful school in the midst of a huge city
- is a far cry from what was no more than a mining camp
when the first Brothers arrived in Johannesburg. The Marist
schools at Observatory, Inanda and Linmeyer, too, are vastly
different from the make-shift structure in which the Brothers

began teaching at Koch Street on 9 October 1889.
The Mass was a reflection of our faith in God, our trust in
Mary and St Marcellin Champagnat and in all those who work
with us in the task of educating youth. It is as is quoted in
the Marist work ‘Water from the Rock’ that Marist spirituality
inspires our understanding of how we are to live what Jesus
commands us and what Champagnat dreams for us.