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To be Saints is not a privilege for the few, but a vocation for everyone - Pope Francis
Faith Practices
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School begins with daily prayer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Social justices issues are discussed in the classrooms.
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STEM Nights are held once a year focusing on Religion as part of the learning activities.
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Catholic Link
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