At St. Catherine School we uphold and are intentional about living and sharing the richness of the Catholic Faith. We are reminded of this through our school motto;
"We rise to meets Christ's challenge."
To encourage the students every month and invite them into experiencing the faith in more tangible ways we acknowledge and talk about a Saint of the Church each month. Each Saint discussed is unique and shows us an example of heroic virtue. We emphasize a specific virtue or characteristic in each Saint that is attainable for us also through the grace of God. We also take time to acknowledge three students each month that we as staff believe are examples to their peers of the same virtue or characteristic expressed by the Saint.
2025-2028 Faith Plan
To continue this years faith plan we will be venturing from "Know God" into "Love God"
This emphasis on "Love God" is done through the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and through the Eucharist.
Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Began in the 11/12 Century.
- Became popular and more prominent through Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 17 century.
- She had received visions of Jesus, where Christ revealed his heart as a symbol of his boundless love for humanity, and emphasized the need for people to return his love through prayer and devotion.
- The 5 symbols include
- Cross
- Exposed heart
- Wound
- Crown of thorns
- Flames
- This devotion remains a practice and focus of reflection for us to better accept, and reciprocate the Love of Christ and his sacrifice for us.
Eucharist
Source and Summit of our Christian faith.
- The Eucharist was instituted by Christ at the last supper. When Jesus says "take and eat this is my body" we see the fruition of what he referenced in John 6.
- In John 6:35-71 While teaching Jesus told his followers multiple times that if they do not eat the flesh of the son of the man, and drink his blood they will not have life within them. When followers grumbled he not only re-stated his sentiment, he made it more graphic. The closest translation he would have said "gnaw" not eat. "For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.” Followers left him because of this teaching, which we still see today.
- The Eucharist is truly and fully Jesus Christ, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
- In Mass at the moment of consecration through the Holy Spirit, the Seal of succession of the Priests Ordination he is acting in persona cristi, at such time the bread and wine truly and fully become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
- We will discuss Eucharistic miracles throughout the world, and throughout centuries that depict the same scientific evidence.
