Traditions
As a school family, we join in the celebration of certain traditions and feasts. Each day, we gather for Morning Prayer in church. On Mondays, this includes adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Special celebrations:
Special celebrations:
- September – Opening school Mass is celebrated with faculty, students and families.
- October – Polish Heritage Month – we celebrate Mary under her title ‘Our Lady of Czestochowa’
- December 6 – Feast of St. Nicholas – celebrated with a prayer service and a visit from St. Nicholas
- January 6 – Feast of the Epiphany and the anniversary of the founding of our school – celebrated by blessing the classrooms and marking the doors
- Holy Week – Special prayers are offered for the bishop and priests of the diocese
- Easter Tuesday – Dyngus Day – a Polish tradition celebrating new life in Baptism – we douse one another with water as a sign of our baptism (sometimes this takes place later in the spring because of the weather)
- April 11 – Feast of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr (in the Roman calendar) – celebrated with a prayer service at which the 7th graders receive their class rings
- May 3 – Mary, Queen of Poland – celebrated with a May crowning
- May 8 – Feast of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr (in the Slavic calendar) – celebrated with a prayer service
- Classroom Saints for 2020-2021
- Grade 8 St. Vincent de Paul
- Grade 7 St. Gianna Beretta Molla
- Grade 6 St. Francis of Assisi\
- Grade 5 St. Mother Teresa of CalCutta
- Grade 4 St. Faustina
- Grade 3 St. Jacinta Marto
- Grade 2 St. Kateri Tekakwitha
- Grade 1 St. John Paull II
- Grade k St. Mary
- Grade PK Saints Joachim and Anne
