Why should you send your children to a Catholic School?
So they can experience:
- Prayer each morning before the school day begins
- Prayer before eating lunch
- Prayer at the end of each school day
- A Christmas Concert rather than a “Winter Concert”
- Weekly Mass with their closest friends
- Learning about saints and other heroes of faith
- Praying the rosary
- Participating in the Stations of the Cross
- Spiritual Retreats
- Celebrating the true meaning of Christmas
- Reading scripture regularly
- Praying with the entire school when disasters or tragedies occur
- Celebrating All Saints Day
- No school on Easter Monday
- Learning responsibility for their own education by fundraising
- Learning the connection between faith and reason
- Being able to talk to a teacher about religion
- Sharing faith journeys with each other
- Seeing priests on a regular basis
- Celebrating Mary in May
- Halls decorated with a manger during Advent and Christmas
- Talking with friends about what to give up for Lent
- Congratulating second graders on receiving First Communion
- Helping Catholic Charities with service projects
- Hearing Jesus’ name regularly
- Connecting service with Catholic social teaching