Each month, we focus on a new virtue to study and highlight in all subject matters as part of our virtues program. Students receive specific instruction on these virtues in their Mass Families and are then called upon to put them into practice. This practice empowers students to live out the virtues and allows them to develop essential social and emotional skills, decision making abilities, and will draw them closer to God. Understanding that students may fail to live up to the virtues, the school works with the students to take accountability, to learn from their mistakes by providing guidance and opportunities for reflection, and provides fair and consistent consequences to help students understand the link between their actions and personal development.
Students living out the virtues, may be recognized with a Virtues Card, formally known as an ACTS card. These cards will be entered into a weekly and monthly drawing.
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September's virtue is love. Love, or charity, enables us to love as God Himself loves, to love God above all things, and one's neighbor as oneself. The practice of all the virtues is animated and inspired by love.
“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another.” 1 John 4:7-11