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Through every age, the Church has stressed the importance of parents being the primary educators of their children. Saint Mary Catholic School exists to support parents in this role. We know, through the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, parents possess special graces to teach their children, especially when it comes to teaching the Catholic faith. Our teachers can only reinforce what already starts at home.
With this in mind, Saint Mary School seeks to support family life and help prepare students as future leaders and supporters of family life. Modeled after a successful program at Our Lady of Lourdes Classical School, the “Prime Time” series has been launched as an opportunity to come together as a community and grow together in our vocation as parents. As “Continuing Education for Primary Educators,” Prime Time also seeks to foster “a special solidarity among families” or what Pope St. John Paul the Great referred to as “an apostolate of families to one another".(Letter to Families, 1994). The Catholic identity and school culture for which we are striving depends upon this type of community-wide effort. May God give us this grace. |
“The Church’s clear teaching, constantly reiterated by the Holy See, affirms that parents are the first educators of their children. Parents have the original, primary, and inalienable right to educate their offspring in conformity with the family’s moral and religious convictions. They are educators because they are parents… Parents – and not schools either of the state or the Church – have the primary moral responsibility of educating the children to adulthood. |