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Isabella Franklin (PreK-2nd Grade)
Christy Miller (3rd-5th Grade)

The theme for this school year is “Called To Be Holy.”  St. Gregory Cathedral School will look to Saint Carlo Acutis as our Model Saint for the year.  

Despite being a typical teenager, who enjoyed video games and soccer, Carlo developed a profound relationship with God, attending daily Mass and receiving communion regularly.  He used his skills to create a website cataloging Eucharistic miracles, demonstrating how technology could be a tool for sharing faith.  Carlo was diagnosed with a terminal illness and died at the young age of 15, offering up his suffering for the Church.

 Carlo showed that holiness is not reserved for extraordinary acts, but can be found in daily life, in small acts of kindness and in a consistent effort to live out the virtues.  He is a reminder that anyone can be a saint!

 Our virtues this year are divided into monthly virtues.  We ask each teacher to reinforce the virtues in their classrooms and have your students do an activity to help them recognize these virtues and how we speak (share the virtue) and act (see ourselves and others) living them.  Each month the virtues will be introduced by the Religion teachers, but we need your help by reinforcing them in your classrooms. We will tie our virtues into the life of St. Carlo Acutis when possible, and we ask you to do the same.

 Hang posters, class work, student ideas and activities that demonstrate them living the virtues and also celebrating Carlo’s life. Give out the ‘caught practicing virtue’ cards when you see the students living the virtues by example.

“The only thing we have to ask God for, in prayer, is the desire to be holy.”

St. Carlo Acutis

Saint Thomas Aquinas described human virtue as ultimum potentiae; meaning the limit of power, or the furthest point that human power can reach. We are most powerful as human beings when we choose to act with virtue. Our students will be invited to see VIRTUE as their SUPERPOWER.

Our virtues this year are divided into monthly virtues.

September: Orderliness 

Keeping oneself physically clean and neat and one’s belongings in good order.

 October: Courtesy

Treating other people with respect, recognizing that all are made in God’s image and likeness.

 November: Generosity

Giving of oneself in a willing and cheerful manner for the good of others.

 December & January: Humility

Awareness that all one’s gifts come from God and appreciation for the gifts of others.

 February: Foresight

Consideration of the consequences of one’s actions: thinking ahead.

 March: Perseverance

Taking the steps necessary to carry out objectives in spite of difficulties.

 April: Magnificence

Doing great things for God.

 May: Patience

Bearing present difficulties calmly.