Michael Buhler is the Pastoral Care Worker for the Northeastern Catholic District School Board.

Faith & Pastoral Care

The Northeastern Catholic District School Board is pleased to offer the services of our Pastoral Care Worker, Michael Buhler, to our students and staff as part of our effort to enhance and enrich our Catholicity. Mr. Buhler continues to be active in all of our school communities, visiting classrooms and working with our teaching and non-teaching staff members. In collaboration with our teaching staff, he enhances and supports the Catholic values, policies and goals of the Board.

Mr. Buhler works with liturgical committees and supports the faith journey of students through relationship building, counseling, opportunities for faith development and retreats. He offers support to teachers in infusing Catholic teaching into all subject areas. He also serves teachers and other staff in adult faith formation. He raises social justice issues with students and staff and provides relevant information as to how we might respond as Catholics to global issues.

As a spiritual guide, he provides insight and gospel teachings while promoting and modeling the mission statement of the Board to "...guide our students on a journey of discovery that celebrates life."

Mr. Buhler can be reached by email at buhlerm@ncdsb.on.ca.


Catholic Virtue Program for the Northeastern Catholic District School Board

Virtue: A Virtue is a habitual and firm disposition to do good. It allows the person not only to perform good acts, but to give the best of themselves. The virtuous person tends toward the good with all their sensory and spiritual powers; they pursue the good and choose it in concrete actions.

September - Faith

Quote of the month:
Happy are those who have not seen, yet still believe. - John 20:29

Song of the Month:
To You I Give or Blest are They

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The Heart in Autumn

2009-09-28

I found a beautiful book recently in the back of a school storage shelf. It has wonderful passages from various writers and evocative black and white photographs that seem to bring even more depth to the written words. The book is set in rhythm to the liturgical seasons we honor as Church, and it has become an aid to my own prayer life. The many ways our Creator guides the steps we take through life can not be counted.

The book is titled The Heart Has Its Seasons. It comes from Regina Press, New York, 1970. The material was compiled and edited by Louis M. Savary, S.J., and Thomas J. OConnor. I would like to share with you the introduction to the section The Heart in Autumn.

The Heart in Autumn:
Autumn brings choices and decisions. It is a time for the heart to mold its convictions and to render its judgments. It is a time for purpose and commitment, for choosing ones path, discovering ones direction, shaping ones future. Sometimes merely to ask is to decide. Sometimes a simple yes can change the course of a lifetime.

Decisions give birth to hope. The heart in autumn is unwilling to settle either for comfort or for violence, since it has grown into responsibility. In autumn the heart is happy to use its powers, to exercise its strength, to reach for the stars.

In autumn the heart must come face to face with life's predicaments, enlarge its concerns to those of all people, accept the challenge to recharge the earth with a new richness, to rage against the dying of the light. It recognizes that the quality in ones life is most important, not merely the number of years. The heart in autumn sees meaning beyond death.

Autumn is the season of the pilgrim soul, the season of love tested and tried, of comfort sought and shared. It is the season of sweetness that can never be taken away. The heart knows that nothing can separate it from the love of God.

In autumn the heart is for choosing.
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Michael Buhler
Pastoral Care Worker
Northeastern Catholic District School Board