Faith Practices

• School begins and ends with daily prayer.

• Weekly Mass is celebrated each Thursday for staff, students and parents by the priests from the Vicariate Parishes.

• In preparation for All Saints Day, each 5th grade student researches the life of a saint.  On All Saints Day, the children, in costume, are part of a saints museum where visitors can listen to each saint’s life story.

• Students in all grades are taught the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the school participates in a prayer service twice a year honoring the Divine Mercy.

• In May, our second grade students honor the Blessed Mother with a crowning.

Faith Leadership and Practices

• Students help plan and participate in the weekly liturgies by lectoring, ushering and altar serving.

• Students in Preschool - Grade 3 participate in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd which follows Sophia Cavalletti's work with children in the area of children's religious formation. We share her belief that God and the child have a unique relationship with one another and, though the growth of this relationship is directed by the Spirit of God within the child, should be assisted by an adult.

• Students in all grades participate in community service programs.  Seventh and eighth grade students accumulate 20 hours of service before they graduate from 8th grade.

• Students are given the opportunity to participate in school-wide service projects:  Eastside Soup Kitchen, Project Christmas Child, YMCA, Underground Railroad, Emmaus House, National Disasters and Christmas giving programs.

• Social justices issues are discussed in the classrooms.