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 followed by an opening school cookout hosted by the Parents’ group
- October – Polish Heritage Month – we celebrate Mary under her title ‘Our Lady of Czestochowa’ November 22 – Blessing of Musicians (the junior choir, chant schola, and all who play instruments) on the Feast of St. Cecilia
- 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
- In addition, each class celebrates its patronal feast.
- Preschool Blessed Angela Truszkowska March 3
- Kindergarten St. Paul the First Hermit January 14
- First Grade St. Kinga July 24
- Second Grade St. Casimir March 4
- Third Grade St. Faustina Kowalska October 4
- Fourth Grade St. Brother Albert Chmielowski June 17
- Fifth Grade Blessed Karolina Kozka November 18
- Sixth Grade St. Josaphat, Bishop & Martyr November 12
- Seventh Grade St. Raphael Kalinowski November 19
- Eighth Grade Queen St. Jadwiga June 8
