Friendship with Christ
Our journey in life is about building friendships, with the most important being our friendship with Jesus. Each week, students meet with a religious brother to focus on this special relationship, learning how to talk to God, express their love through projects, and discover how their friendship with Christ brings meaning to every part of their lives.
School of Friendship
Our life’s journey is one of building a friendship. We build many friendships in a lifetime, but our eternal life depends on one in particular: friendship with Jesus.
Once a week each class meets, normally with a religious brother, to give a special focus on this friendship. Students discover how Christ is not only our Lord and Savior, but also our greatest friend. Our friendship with Christ is built like any other friendship: spending time together, talking, doing things together, giving and receiving.
Students learn how to talk to God and do projects that show their love for God. They will learn how their friendship with Christ gives meaning to all parts of their life.
Prayer Journal
The School of Prayer journal is an essential tool that students use in building their prayer life. It is used to write down lessons learned in class, but, most importantly, to record lights from prayer and conversations that a student has with Jesus.
Students are expected to bring their journal to every School of Prayer class so that they can keep a consistent record of challenges, questions, and hopes that come up in prayer.
Over time the journal helps the student see the ways that God is working in his life and the steps that he is taking in his relationship with God.
The story of every human life is a story of friendship with Christ. “Yes, it is true; education is a matter of friendship that is related to the truth of the love of parents and teachers, a love that children receive. It is a friendship that engenders a unique educational covenant, centered entirely on the student assuming his role in the relationships that knit together his entire being. . . . therein lies its greatness as well, for Christ has willed to become our friend and to call us His friends, a friendship that we enter into through the Church. Thus the work of education is not a task that can be carried out alone” (Educational Covenant, p. 111).