All School Mass Schedule

Mass is offered daily in Blaise Hall Chapel at 7:00 a.m. School-wide masses are held several times annually, during which faculty and students gather together to celebrate the Eucharist.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009		Blessed Virgin Mary (Bishop Olmsted – special time - 8:30 a.m.)
Monday, October 05, 2009		St. Francis
Tuesday, November 03, 2009		St. Martin de Porres
Tuesday, December 08, 2009		Immaculate Conception
Wednesday, February 03, 2010		Presentation of the Lord
Wednesday, March 17, 2010		St. Patrick
Thursday, April 29, 2010		St. Catherine of Siena
Thursday, May 27, 2010		Baccalaureate Mass

Saint Mary's High School Campus Minister: Bob Kelly, 602-251-2557

Christian Service

Students are encouraged to be active members of the Christian faith community. This entails promoting moral values, fostering an attitude of Christian service, and continually growing in the Truth of the Catholic Church. Saint Mary’s students strive to be models of Christian love, honesty, decency and integrity.

In addition to satisfying academic requirements, each Saint Mary's Knight/Lady Knight must completely satisfy the Christian Service Requirement.

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Spiritual Life

            The life of Saint Mary’s High School is Eucharistic.  This is the foundation upon which everything else is built.  We at Saint Mary’s are very blessed in that we are able to celebrate Mass as a community Monday Through Friday. Everyone is invited.  Everyone is welcome.  The Eucharist, as explained by the Catechism of the Catholic Church, is the “source and summit of Christian living.”  Everything we do – academics, athletics, community building – is grounded in this truth.
           
            The sacramental life, by its very nature, is a life devoted to meeting the needs of those in need.   Such is the essence of social justice.  In Baptism, we give witness to the truth that we are willing to build the Kingdom of God, beginning in the here and now.  Confirmation – replete with the gifts of the Holy Spirit – testifies that, not only are we so willing, but that we have been given the ability as well.  When we live eucharistically as a community, we engage actively in the mission.

            The truth of this is found in the Sacred Scriptures, and it has recently been most eloquently affirmed by Pope Benedict XVI and his immediate predecessor, John Paul II.  In the Apostolic Letter, Mane Nobiscum Domine, John Paul identifies the foundational characteristic of the Eucharist.  “There is no doubt that the most evident dimension of the Eucharist is that it is a meal,” the Pope writes. “As such, it expresses the fellowship which God wishes to establish with us and which we ourselves must build with one another.”
           

            Benedict XVI, in the Apostolic Exhortation, Sacramentum Caritatas, gives the Eucharist a three-fold design.  The sacrament, he says, is: a mystery to be believed; a mystery to be celebrated; and, a mystery to be lived.  The Pope states very clearly that anyone called to living the mystery, is also called to deeper and deeper conversion. “The faithful need to be reminded that there can be no actuoso participatio in the sacred mysteries without an accompanying effort to participate in the life of the Church, including a missionary commitment to bring Christ’s love into the life of society.”

           
            Possibly the earliest recorded instance of this missionary element occurs in the Gospel of Luke when the two disciples – having lost all fear – hastily leave the supper table at Emmaus (Luke 24: 13-35)  and eagerly face whatever dangers await them to bring the Good News to those who need to hear it.  The same author gives a fuller expression to the active sacramental life when, in Acts, he speaks of the believers selling their possessions and dividing them according to the needs of the community.  “They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart, praising God and enjoying favor with all people.” (Acts 2: 46b-47)
           

           
            The Eucharist is both dynamic and transformative.  Early in his Apostolic Exhortation, Benedict XVI adds his own voice to this chorus.  Drawing for support on Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, the pope writes,

                        The substantial conversion of bread and wine into his body and
                         blood introduces within creation the principle of a radical change,
                        a sort or ‘nuclear fission,’ to use an image familiar to us today,
                        which penetrates to the heart of all being, a change meant to set
                        off a process which transforms reality, a process leading ultimately
                        to the transfiguration of the entire world, to the point where God
                        will be all in all.

            The words bring to mind a renowned theologian/mystic who once assigned the label “radial energy” to the transforming love of God.  When a community lives Eucharistically – in the fullest sense of the term – it is thus transformed.