Planning for a 2025 Conference was the main agenda item of the AJASS Executive when they met at Mary MacKillop Place on 12 September.

AJASS is the Association of Josephite Affiliated Secondary Schools – and their charter commits them to continuing the educational mission of the Josephite order, informed explicitly by the specific charism and witness of the Sisters of Saint Joseph.

2025 is a Jubilee year, and the AJASS Executive are planning a conference with the Jubilee theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. This will be a conference focussed on recognising and celebrating the impact of AJASS schools since the Association was founded in 2005 (20 years ago), but there will also be a call to the Principals to be re-commissioned and sent again on mission, renewed and enlivened.

The conference will echo the walk to Emmaus, inviting Principals of AJASS schools to celebrate the people they walk beside, acknowledge the times they have welcomed the stranger, reflect on the times their ‘heart has burned within them’ through recognising Christ and, importantly, encourage an intentional reflection on how they lead after they walk back to their schools and tell the story.

AJASS school leaders will receive notification very soon for a June conference.

Chris Gabbett
President of AJASS (Association of Josephite Affiliated Secondary Schools)