Education

All Perryville and beyond turns out to support St. Vincent

LISA JOHNSTON | lisajohnston@archstl.org  Courtney Kline plays flute in the eighth-grade band at St. Vincent School in Perryville.  The school has received a grant of $25,000 for their music program.

Talk about a feel-good story.

A small Catholic school program in a rural community vies in a nationwide contest with big-city schools for enough votes to win a $25,000 grant for its music program. The whole town gets involved. Everybody votes over and over for the Catholic school to win, but — out of 1,622 schools nationwide in the competition — the small Catholic school comes in fifth. And only four schools get the grant money.

The next day, an anonymous donor gives the school $25,000 for its music program.

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St. Mary’s art students create ‘Empty Bowls’ to help fill plates of people in need

St. Mary’s High School sophomore Sam Aguayo and senior Aaron Cronin began work on their first ceramic bowls at the potter’s wheel in Melissa Griffin’s art class. The students are working this Lent on an Empty Bowls Project in which their bowls will be sold to raise money for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Buy an empty bowl and help fill someone's plate with food.

That's the message being spread by students at St. Mary's High School in south St. Louis, where the sculpture class is creating ceramic bowls to raise money for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of St. Louis.

"This is a wonderful way to combine art and help charity," said St. Mary's art teacher Melissa Griffin. "The students here are doing a wonderful job of working with clay. They're doing this in part for a grade, but it's much bigger than that."

Dear Father | Sharing the good news of Catholic education

Q: What can I say to my young relatives to encourage them to send their children to Catholic schools? 

Start by asking this question, "Is God part of my daily life or is He only allowed in my life on special occasions and on Sundays?"

Abp. Carlson, Catholic educators support school bill

JEFFERSON CITY — Archbishop Robert J. Carlson and Catholic school administrators from around Missouri expressed their support this week for a proposal to create a tax-credit supported scholarship program for students in unaccredited districts to attend private or parochial schools.

Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, is the sponsor of the bill, Senate Bill 706, which was heard in the Missouri Senate's General Laws Committee. It would also annex the unaccredited Kansas City public school district to neighboring districts.

Working together with new mission advancement initiative, our Catholic schools will be Alive in Christ!

Working together with new mission advancement initiative, our Catholic schools will be Alive in Christ!

 

The time for discussion is over, and the time for action has begun.

On Feb. 2, Archbishop Robert J. Carlson presented at John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Manchester his priorities for Catholic education in the Archdiocese of St. Louis and the steps to be taken to achieve them.

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Across the archdiocese, it's a celebration of Catholic Schools Week

The 119 elementary schools and 28 high schools in the 11-county Archdiocese of St. Louis will be celebrating Catholic Schools Week beginning Sunday, Jan. 29. The annual celebration includes a variety of academic programs, religious events, open houses and other special activities highlighting the many positive aspects of Catholic education, which has been a part of our archdiocese for almost 200 years.

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