News - August 2023

Catholic education is about developing saints and scholars. By sowing the seeds of virtue and truth, our students will flourish in faith, mercy and love. Anything less cheats our school children of their God-given dignity.

There’s something wonderfully renewing about late summer, especially as it begins a new school year. It’s all about new beginnings.

Deep within each of us there is a great desire, a longing for something more, for something beyond, for something better than the best. This longing could be for an answer to life’s ultimate questions; for a job that offers us happiness and contentment; for the uncomfortable and painful present we find ourselves in to change; for the simple joy of being with a loved one. Beneath all of this is a longing for truth, goodness and beauty, which we can only find in God alone.

We hear this phrase often. What does this mean? Our time—perhaps the most obvious way to satisfy this obligation is to attend weekly Mass ...

This week we break from the ordinary cycle of the liturgical calendar. We celebrate on this Sunday the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ. Each year we celebrate this feast on August 6, and if this day happens to be a Sunday, it takes precedence over the cycle of the ordinary Sunday of the year.