Faith Practices

• School begins 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 in the courtyard.

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 Catechesis of the Good Shepherd:
  • Sophia Cavalletti began her work with children in 1954 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 actively participate in Vacation Bible School.

• Students are given the opportunity to participate in school-wide service projects:  Eastside Soup Kitchen, YMCA, Underground Railroad, Emmaus House, Kids Against Hunger, National Disasters and the Bernardine Franciscan Missions.

• Social justices issues are discussed in the classrooms.

• STEM Nights are held once a year focusing on Religion as part of the learning activities.