With Catholic Schools Week approaching next week, let us all remind ourselves of the deepest reason for our Academy’s existence— to root each person in a deep knowing of God’s GREAT LOVE, a love so profoundly personal that it is the source of inner strength and deep joy.
To come to know and then educate others to God’s Love is the particular gift of the Society of the Sacred Heart to the Church. We call this our charism: to discover and reveal the Love of the Heart of Jesus. We come to know God’s Love, revealed to us through the Heart of Christ, and manifest that Love through life’s loves and choices.
How do we educate to God’s Love?
1. RELIGION CLASS provides an intellectual foundation to learning about God. It supports an understanding of faith and provides an opportunity to discuss the experience of God.
2. PRAYER OPPORTUNITIES provide ways to personally experience and come to know the God who is Love. Among them are:
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Eighth Class students at the Archdiocesan Regional Mass for eighth graders held at Assumption Parish in O’Fallon, Archbishop Carlson presiding Prayer at the beginning of each day in homerooms and/or assemblies
- Prayer to open class
- The celebration of the Eucharist
- First Friday Eucharistic Adoration in the Shrine
- Daily quiet time (Espacio)
- Retreat experiences for Seventh and Eighth Class students
3. BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS at the Academy are predicated on the assumption that each person is created in the image and likeness of God, and thus each person deserves the same reverence that we would give the person of Jesus if He were in front of us. This is what our faith teaches and this is what we aspire to do!
This is how we, the Academy of the Sacred Heart,
hope / want / desire to be ALIVE IN CHRIST!
Our work here, and your support of our work here, helps us to BUILD God’s Kingdom (which is comprised of goodness, kindness and love). We try to do so one heart at a time, one child at a time, one person at a time, and one day at a time!
Let us continue to do so, humbly and fervently!
United to each of you in God’s Loving Heart,
Maureen Glavin, rscj
