Celebrating Community in Catholic Schools

Posted on February 3, 2016 in News

A few weeks ago, I joined the Catholic Education Foundation family as Director of Events, and by the end of this week, will have had the privilege to visit and meet the children, and principals, at each of our CEF schools.

From roaming the halls at Christ the King, in Kansas City, Kansas, where my dad graduated grade school in 1959, to spotting my husband’s cap and gown picture from 1995, hanging on the cafeteria wall of John  Paul II, what an incredible reminder of the longstanding impact Catholic education has in our families, and in our communities.

This week, we began celebrating National Catholic Schools Week. The theme this year is "Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service." The National Catholic Educational Association tells us, "First schools are communities – small families in their own right, but also members of the larger community of home, church, city and nation."

As we have entered each of our CEF schools, the character, beauty and uniqueness evident in the hallways and on the faces of the children reflects the community to which it belongs, yet echoes in a much greater way the universality of our faith.

What a great responsibility CEF has been entrusted with, sustaining the future of our home, church, city and nation, by providing scholarships to children in our communities who would otherwise not have the opportunity to access a high-quality, faith-filled education.

This fall will be our 13th year of Gaudeamus. If you’ve not had a chance to spend this evening with us in the past, we encourage and invite you on October 29th to come and join more than 1,500 others from the communities across our Archdiocesan parishes, and with children who represent the rich diversity of our faith from each of the Catholic schools that make up our great city.

Certainly things have changed since my dad’s days in 1959. Yet in each of these communities, the one thing that remains is the faith. We hope you’ll join us this year in our work to make high-quality, faith-filled education possible for all children in our communities, specifically those living in poverty. One day, their children too will reminisce about the days that their parents once roamed the same halls!

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