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We Are All Called to Be Doormen Faith 3 NowadaysMontgomery Catholic Preparatory School Fall 2015 • Vol 4 • Issue 1 Administration 2 We are All Called to be Doormen Faith 3 Perhaps Saint André Bessette countless achievements of the School News 6 should be named the Patron saint students of Montgomery Catholic Student Achievement 9 for this issue of Nowadays. Preparatory School in many areas: academic, the arts, athletics, and Alumni 14 St. André was orphaned at a service. These accomplishments very early age, lived a life of Faculty News 17 are due to the students’ extreme poverty, and had little dedication and hard work, but Memorials 18 opportunity to go to school. also to their parents’ support and He would be termed illiterate Advancement 20 teacher involvement. They are in today’s standards because the doormen helping to open the he was barely able to write his doors of possibilities. name. He was short in stature and struggled with health issues. You will also read about the many Planning process has been on However, this did not deter him donors that have supported going for the past 10 months, and from his desire to become a MCPS through their gifts of time, on June 18 over 100 stakeholders, member of the Congregation of talent, and treasure. Through including our local priests, parents, the Holy Cross. their generosity many wonderful and invited guests, came together things are happening at each of to hammer out a plan that would After three years of being our campuses. We are so grateful map out MCPS’s course. These a novitiate, he was denied to Partners in Catholic Education, people are the doormen for our admittance. This decision was PICE, which has provided over school’s future. later changed, and he was $1,000,000 to projects at our admitted to the order and given Thank you for helping us to various campuses. Our donors, the job as doorman. support the mission of the Sisters along with PICE, are the doormen of Loretto, begun in 1873, as we Brother André committed himself for opening the doors to educate all students that come to this job by taking care of each vast possibilities. to us in order to lead them to a student and every parent who By the time you receive this closer relationship with Christ came to the school. He also publication we will have made while helping them to reach their reached out to beggars, and the last loan payment, and our God-given potential. You open the before long hundreds were school will be debt free! God doors for countless students each coming to him for prayers of has graced us with the year. Please remember to keep healing. Brother Andre had a ability to pay down the debt, them in your daily prayers, and deep love for St. Joseph, the while maintaining a sound, you will remain in mine as I pray Foster Father of Jesus, and rigorous Catholic education. for blessings for you through the would entrust the beggars' This has positioned us to intercession of Saint Brother André Nothing New Under the Sun healing to Jesus Christ begin strategically and St. Joseph. through the intercession “There is nothing new under the In 1873 that same motivation planning for the of St. Joseph. Anne Ceasar sun.” I often think of this quote inspired the Sisters of Loretto, next 5 years. President from the Book of Ecclesiastes (1:9) in the difficult days of the unrest The Strategic Throughout this when I read something written by or of Reconstruction, to establish a publication, you about one of the former bishops of school which would offer education will see the our diocese. and formation in the faith to young people. That school would Our first bishop, Michael Portier grow into Montgomery Catholic (1825-1859), faced a number of Preparatory School. challenges. One of his greatest challenges was passing the faith of We too live in a time when our the Church on to the young. Bishop young people need an excellent Portier had come to Alabama education and a foundation in from France where there was a Gospel values. There are few parish church in each village, and societal supports of the faith in our priests and religious taught Gospel increasingly pluralistic and secular values to young people. However, culture. As truly as it was necessary in Alabama, in what was then a to pass on the faith to the young frontier situation, there were few on the Alabama frontier of the supports to the faith. People lived 1820’s, it is necessary to pass the in small towns and settlements faith on to our young people today. where priests and ministers would Our young people will frequently occasionally visit as they “rode encounter voices which will be the circuit.” unchristian, if not anti-Christian. Our young people need a strong Bishop Portier worked fervently to foundation in the faith or they will establish churches and schools twist in the wind. where young people could receive both an education and a formation This is the ministry of a Catholic in the apostolic faith handed on in school: to offer excellent education the Church. That motivation was and formation in the faith. In doing foundational to his establishment so, it educates the entire student: of St. Peter Parish in Montgomery academically, socially, physically in 1834. Despite the challenges, it and spiritually. Thank you to the was necessary to teach, celebrate, administration, staff, faculty, and live the faith. He and many families, and friends of MCPS. others, whose names are lost to Educating and forming our young us but not to God, taught the faith. people are “nothing new under sun” It is with pride that we recall that but is greatly needed today. Thank the first schools in Alabama were you for carrying on this ministry of Catholic schools. the Church. Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi Archbishop of Mobile From the President of the Advisory Council ambitions of our community as a whole. 2014-2015 On behalf of the Advisory Committee I would like to thank those individuals Advisory Committee that participated in this process, and Mike Talbot Chairman in particular, Erik Goldschmidt with Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish Representative ISPD for his leadership. The second accomplishment that I would like Tiger Gilbert Vice Chairman to report on is that by the time this Holy Spirit Parish Representative article is published most, if not all, of Michele O’Mara Secretary the outstanding debt carried by MCPS Holy Family Catholic Community, will have been retired. This significant Maxwell AFB Representative achievement was made possible through the financial support of our Anne Ceasar I would like to tell you about a couple families, through the generosity of a Montgomery Catholic of important accomplishments that great many contributors and through Preparatory School President occurred over the past year that will the prudent management and planning go a long way towards determining of the administration over the past Msgr. Bill Skoneki Episcopal Vicar the future of Montgomery Catholic several years. Based on these two Pastor, St. Michael Catholic Church Preparatory School. First, a Strategic accomplishments, Montgomery Catholic SCHOOL CALENDAR Plan has been developed. Under the Zack Azar Preparatory School now has a plan guidance of the Institute of School and St. Peter’s Parish Representative 2015-2016 in place to advance the quality of the Parish Development, the process of education provided to our students and Mathew Bednarz developing a strategic plan began in School Opens to the services provided to our families, High School Campus Representative December 2014. The formulation of this August 17 and it also has the financial wherewithal plan involved discussions in ten planning Robert Brouillard to begin the process of implementing Labor Day areas that included Catholic culture, Our Lady Queen of this plan. September 7 student life, faculty/staff, academics, Mercy Parish Representative technology, athletics, fine arts, finance, In closing, I would like to take the Homecoming Bon Fire Holly Beverly advancement and marketing, and opportunity to plug an event at MCPS. September 24 Middle School Campus Representative facilities. Members of our community If you’ve not attended Homecoming at Homecoming Game met regularly to discuss challenges and Catholic in a while, then please consider Michael S. Harper September 25 opportunities in each of these areas adding this to your plans. Over the past St. Vincent de Paul Parish Representative and to develop strategies for future several years this event has grown Michelle Johnson considerably. Most notable among the Veteran’s Day development. The process culminated St. Joseph Parish Representative November 11 with convocation on June 17th, wherein activities is an Alumni tent where you key elements of each of the planning can have catered dinner and catch Tia Levanda Thanksgiving areas were prioritized. Finishing touches up with friends and classmates. The Holy Spirit Campus Representative November 25-27 on the plan were completed over class of 1982, one of the better classes John Schmidt the past summer. What I found most in the long history of MCPS, was well Christmas Holy Spirit Parish Representative appealing about this process is that it represented at this past year’s event. It December 19 – January 4 involved input from a broad spectrum is a very well planned and well attended Troy Trant event, and if you haven’t been “home” in Dr. Martin Luther King of stakeholders in MCPS. Not only was St. Bede Parish Representative the Advisory Committee involved, but so awhile, then know that the door is open January 18 Teresa Treloar were current families, alumni, the faculty for you. Go Knights! St.
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